Cheerful Black little girls smiles while in line in a soup kitchen. She is holding a plate full of healthy food. Her family is in line behind her.

Issue Areas

Community Health

We explore and highlight opportunities to create health-promoting physical, social, and economic environments, working closely with community partners.

Community health at Kaiser Permanente

Excellent medical care alone is not sufficient to create healthy communities. We explore and highlight opportunities to create health-promoting physical, social, and economic environments, working closely with community partners.

Focus areas
Leg details of Black female gardener tending to organic crops at community garden and picking up a basket full of produce
Environmental Stewardship
Toddler girl preparing food with father
Food and Nutrition
Being thirsty. Pleasant unhoused woman sitting at the table while wanting to drink water
Housing and Homelessness
A mature African-American man teaching a group of five multiracial children how to grow vegetable plants in a community garden. He is holding a tray of potted plants, kneeling down so the girls and boys, 4 to 10 years old, can see them as he talks. The boy standing beside him is his son.
Schools and Early Childhood
A mom and child demonstrate housing affordability to improve health
How should we address housing affordability to improve health?

We can address housing affordability to improve health by making impact investments.

Featured content
Housing First is a matter of health
Kaiser Permanente’s approach to strengthening small business
Preserving and bolstering the necessary tools to promote insulin affordability
A Conversation: Exploring Policy Opportunities in Nutrition Security and School Health
Health care workforce needs and Kaiser Permanente’s approach
Maternity Care: How to Address Bias and Increase Cultural Humility
A Conversation: Unpacking Promising Food is Medicine Interventions & Supportive Policies
Community Drivers of Health: Policy Paper Series
To reduce health inequities, clinics need lawyers on the team
Long overdue: Addressing black maternal health in the United States
Delivering high-quality, equitable maternal care: Lessons from the nation’s largest private integrated care delivery organization
Latin family holding the keys of their new house
A Journey Home: Transforming Care, Providing Support, Expanding Access

In this Forum we learned what policies could improve our effectiveness at helping people get and stay stably housed, and how to improve the health of individuals and our communities.

Events
Public Health and the Delivery System: Vital Connections
The Future of Healthy Schools: Supportive Funding, Systems Change, and Community Collaboration
Addressing Trauma in School-Aged Children
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