While the community development field has been working on the “social determinants of health”— housing, jobs, safety, food, and education—since its very inception, making the link between what community developers do and the health of the people we serve is a relatively recent development, but an important one. When the community development sector works with the health care sector, the possibilities are significant.
But, as our editor points out, those linkages are still new. Actors in both sectors have a learning curve; it’s steeper for some than for others. We’re on a learning curve too. To help us climb the curve, we assembled an amazing editorial advisory group and we thank them for the guidance, knowledge, and insights they’ve generously shared with us.
Kevin Barnett
Public Health Institute
Rickie Brawer
Department of Family and Community Medicine and Center for Urban Health at Jefferson University Hospital
Natalie S. Burke
CommonHealth ACTION
Dalila Butler
PolicyLink Center for Health, Equity, and Place
Colby Dailey
Build Healthy Places Network
Denise Fairchild
Emerald Cities Collaborative
Charise Fong
East Bay Asian Local Development Corporation
Amy Gillman
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Lisa Hasegawa
UCLA Activist-In-Residence Fellow
Douglas Jutte
Build Healthy Places Network
Angela Mingo
Columbus Children’s Hospital
Quentin Moore
Beaumont Health
Sarah Norman
Sheppard Pratt Health System
Bill Pinakiewicz
Nonprofit Finance Fund
Kalima Rose
PolicyLink
Megan Sandel
Boston University School of Medicine
Joshua Simon
East Bay Asian Local Development Corporation
Rachel J. Thornton
Johns Hopkins University
Frank Woodruff
National Alliance of Community Economic Development Associations
Robert Zdenek
National Community Reinvestment Coalition
David Zuckerman
The Democracy Collaborative, Anchor Institution Initiative
*Affiliations are for identification purposes only.
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We also want to thank the funders who provided partial support for this project. In addition to financial support, we are grateful to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Kresge Foundation, and Kaiser Permanente for sharing their experience and insights while respecting our editorial independence.**
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