IPHI operates a multi-dimensional effort to build capacity for effective community health systems. Offering a range of services to meet diverse learning needs from classroom-based training workshops to podcasts and webinars, IPHI works collaboratively to design and deliver training to meet your unique learning objectives. 

IPHI provides technical assistance on a variety of topics, including strategic planning, community health assessment and planning (CHA/CHIP), public health accreditation, quality improvement, health impact assessment and health in all policies, and more.

IPHI is a boundary spanning leader working across diverse sectors to convene deep partnerships to address inequities and improve health and quality of life. Using health as a center point for multi-sector coalitions, collaborations, and partnerships, IPHI helps move the needle on a wide range of issues including housing insecurity, food insecurity, community development, racial inequities, transportation, and more.   

IPHI works with government, philanthropic, and civic partners to support funding, and capacity for local collaborations across Illinois and across the country. Currently, IPHI works with both the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to support funding to local partners and collaborations through the DASH, ISPAN, and Chicago CARES initiatives.