About this theme area:
While there is evidence that the most impactful community development investments have improved a community's built and social environments, the relationship between community development and health remains largely unexplored or rigorously evaluated.
This research theme aims to generate research to support community development for health. Research projects focus on:
- Direct and indirect community development efforts from community development financial institutions (CDFIs)
- Intersectoral efforts (business, local gov, philanthropy, education)
- Developing and testing evidence-based solutions
- Community engagement
- Health equity
IRL Teams working on projects in this theme:
- Energy Insecurity and Public Health: Going Further through Cross-Sector Collaboration
- Building financial literacy, community assets, and health: a model for equitable community development
- Mind your Money
- Equitable Food Futures: Activating Community Memory, Story, and Imagination in Rural Mississippi
- Investing in Water and Waste-Water Systems to Reduce Health and Economic Inequalities in the Rural South
- Leveraging Greener Schoolyards for Better Health
- Aligning health and built environment assessment frameworks in community development
