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It’s a fascinating time in health philanthropy. The field continues to evolve and expand as more funders look upstream at a range of factors that influence health. In turn, giving more attention to these factors requires new kinds of partnerships and better data. How do you work across sectors to get key institutions on the same page? And how do you measure and track such a wide range of health determinants, including ones that can seem broad?
Well, as we’ve reported, a group of health funders has been working hard on this challenge as part of a larger agenda of improving health in low-income communities. They’ve been scaling up an initiative called the BUILD Health Challenge, an ambitious national effort with lots of moving parts across places, sectors, and health institutions. (BUILD stands for bold, upstream, integrated, local, and data-driven.)…
