Integrating Sustainability into Healthy Brain Initiative Implementation
February 21, 2024
Comprehensive sustainability plans are essential for public health programs to ensure long-term benefits and maintain community trust. For the Healthy Brain Initiative (HBI) specifically, implementing sustainability strategies empowers populations to lead lives with the healthiest brains possible.
This resource hub guides health agencies who are working to implement the HBI State and Local Road Map for Public Health, 2023-2027. The videos and written resource detail collaborative approaches for integrating sustainability and operationalizing equity throughout this important work, and highlight state success stories that agencies can draw inspiration from for their own efforts.
HBI Sustainability Video Series
HBI actions support communities and promote brain health across the life course. This three-part video series showcases how public health practitioners can build program sustainability and health equity into their operational processes.
Hear from state health and academic leaders about how they prioritize long-term capacity in HBI work, engage their communities, and partner across agencies and sectors to build effective initiatives that last.
Program Sustainability in Healthy Brain Initiative Work
Equitable Approaches to Sustainable Healthy Brain Initiative Work
Sustainable Partnerships in Healthy Brain Initiative Work
Speakers
- Kim Prewitt, Manager of Sustainability, Washington University in St. Louis
- Marci Getz, MPH; Director, Healthy Aging Initiatives, Washington State Department of Health
- Rhonda Williams, MES; Chronic Disease Prevention Chief, Vermont Department of Health
- Elizabeth “Liz” Head, MPH; Deputy Director, Injury Prevention Section, Georgia Department of Public Health
Sustainability in Healthy Brain Initiative Implementation: Who? What? Why? Now!
This resource offers a framework for working with agencies, partners, and communities to ensure sustainability in HBI implementation. It outlines valuable sustainability strategies and their significance, actions to take for each area of collaboration, and examples of jurisdictions who have seen success in their efforts.