The Health Equity Inventory
Creating a coordinated approach to community health and health equity
Break Down Silos
Without coordination across the complexity of a large institution, you can end up with redundant programs, misaligned goals, or overburdening some community organizations while missing the opportunity to connect with others. By having one place in which to gather information about health equity-related programs, initiatives, strategies, partnerships, and other activities across your whole institution, you can break down silos and find new efficiencies. The HEI is a centralized database that can help you better understand the work you are doing internally, so you can be a better partner to your community.
“The UCSF team is approaching it as an institution-wide endeavor. We're not just interested in the school of medicine. We're interested in our health system, the schools of pharmacy, dentistry, and nursing, and the graduate division, as well as our research, education, and business practices. We’re looking holistically at the entire institution.”
— Wylie Liu, MPH, MPA
UCSF Center for Community Engagement
Anchor Institution Mission
Build Trust With Your Community
The HEI provides a central location where your institution can document health equity work and share the information you want with your community partners so you can take action together for your community’s health. Unlike other database tools that are only for institutions, the HEI has a special dashboard view just for community members. The Health Equity Insights dashboard allows for select information from your Inventory to be available to your community partners in real time. No matter where you are on your institution’s health equity journey, the HEI can help you strengthen the partnerships you already have and identify new ones.
“You can’t share your Monday.com board or Excel spreadsheet with your community partners. Having a database that was crafted with community partners underscores the collective effort and critical need for tools to share health equity-focused initiatives. We are in this together.”
— Karey M. Sutton, PhD
MedStar Health Research Institute
Quantify Your Work
When it’s time for Community Benefit Reporting, a Community Health Needs Assessment, or a Social Impact Report, where do you get your data? The scope of your community work isn’t fully captured by tax forms. A comprehensive account of all the work underway across your whole institution for your community’s health helps you capture quantitative data so you can accurately convey your community benefit.
A clearer picture of all your health equity work can also help you tell data-driven stories for community relations, state and federal advocacy, institutional advancement and fundraising, and grant applications. Additionally, the AAMC will be able to use aggregate data across all users of the HEI to advocate for academic medicine on the federal level.
Learn Together
Connect with peer institutions through a virtual community of practice. Share your insights from using the tool and learn more about how others are forming new partnerships and communicating the value and scope of their health equity work.
Get Started
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Fill out the interest form via the button below.
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The AAMC will reach out to schedule an introductory call. In that call, we’ll get to know you, your team, and more about your institution’s health equity work, to make sure the HEI is the right fit.
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You’ll gather the data we need to build the tool for you.
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The AAMC customizes the tool for your institution.
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You take ownership of the tool. Now it’s yours to populate with your health equity data.
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Connect with other HEI users through a virtual community of practice.