Some HIEs, HDUs, and other health data collaboratives have taken steps and are working to reach beyond clinical walls, collaborating with community partners and social service providers. While this type of multi-sector data sharing yields benefits in whole-person care, collaboratives must first plan carefully for the foundational work of relationship building.

Data Across Sectors for Health (DASH) is excited to introduce the Incubator, a unique grant and support program, available for past grantees, that will advance equity in data ecosystems.

In our own efforts at DASH to center community voice and expertise—and to make these types of partnerships more visible—we’ve invited community members with the lived and living experiences of poverty and related, social determinants of health to advise us, as we plan for our upcoming All In: Data for Community Health National Meeting (AINM).