Promoting Multi-Sector Collaboration
Purposeful collaboration between different sectors like health care, nonprofits, governments, philanthropic organizations, communities, faith-based organizations, and others is essential to improving health. Alone, no one group, organization, or field can transform community health. Addressing the greatest barriers to good health and finding long-term solutions to health beyond medical care alone requires cooperation between multiple partners that align work and resources in different sectors to address the many non-medical factors that impact health.
EHF has a longstanding commitment to initiatives that advance shared agendas for improved health outcomes across communities. This work requires trust, time, patience, and persistence. The primary goal of strengthening multisector collaboration is to help different types of partners build strong, effective relationships with each other and the communities they serve so they can create shared health strategies that are well-funded and sustained through a range of sources.
EHF believes the barriers to advancing good health often result from challenges that are complex and longstanding. From the scope of the health challenge to the time required to create a common starting ground, the initial resources and effort required to build momentum for purposeful collaborations are significant enough for collaborations to never even begin.
EHF will support efforts to strengthen multi-sector collaborations with a shared plan for health to create opportunities where people with lived experience can be heard, big and small health-related challenges can be understood, and solutions that need teamwork from multiple partners can take shape. As a leading health funder, EHF maintains a unique ability to incentivize and promote this essential multi-sector approach to achieving good health for communities and their residents.
