SHAPING CHANGE

Partnerships and Coalitions

Illinois Public Health Institute calls in partners from our wide network and serves as a support for their collective, cross-sector work to advance health justice.

Our Expertise

Since 2010, IPHI has convened the Illinois Alliance to Promote Opportunities for Health, a coalition of more than 74 organizations working together to address nutrition, physical activity, and chronic health conditions in Illinois.

We play a similar role for the Alliance for Health Equity, one of the nation’s largest collaborative hospital-community partnerships, which envisions improved health equity, community wellness, and quality of life across all neighborhoods and municipalities of the City of Chicago and Suburban Cook County.

IPHI Partnerships and Coalitions in Practice

Medicaid 1115 Waiver

To advocate for new uses of Medicaid through the 1115 Healthcare Transformation Waiver, IPHI activated the Alliance for Health Equity; in five days, we pulled together 25 pages of public comment advocating for food and nutrition benefits under the policy. We’ve galvanized similar efforts in support of other evidence-based applications, including medical respite, behavioral health resources, and more.

Transforming Physical Education in Schools

For more than 15 years, the Illinois Alliance to Promote Opportunities for Health (IAPOH) has supported Illinois communities working to address nutrition, physical activity, and chronic health conditions. Their IPHI-led strategic plan, developed in partnership with the Illinois State Board of Education and the Illinois Department Public Health, led to new policies that improved the quality of physical education for all students enrolled in Illinois K-12 schools. IPHI has trained 1,000+ teachers in more than 300 districts across the state on these enhanced models for physical education.

State Health Improvement Planning Partnership

On behalf of Illinois’s State Health Assessment and State Health Improvement Plan Partnership, we lead five priority action teams that are focused on chronic disease, maternal and infant health, mental health and substance use disorders, emerging diseases, and racism as a public health crisis.