NEPHE builds local capacity to develop strategies that address the factors that lead to poor health. These factors include poverty, residential segregation, racism, lack of access to affordable healthy foods, community violence, and lack of educational opportunity.  NEPHE’s initiatives will ultimately improve health outcomes and facilitate regional efforts to eliminate disparities in communities of color in Boston and across New England.

NEPHE Vision:  To build capacity across New England communities to develop strategies that address the social determinants of health and achieve health equity through community, system, and policy level change.

NEPHE Goals:  For grantees partner agencies to,

1. Become catalysts for change;
2. Create institutional and community changes in policies, programs, and practices;
3. Create and build sustainable equity work; and
4. Have equity work rooted in community.

NEPHE Objectives:  For participating funders to,

1. Create a collaborative learning community; and
2. Provide technical assistance training and resources.

The New England Health Equity Summit
The purpose of the New England Health Equity Summit is to convene New England and Boston-based health equity partners in order to build a regional learning community among organizations, institutions, and coalitions dedicated to achieving health equity.  The New England Health Equity Summit allows New England health equity partners to come together to network, share successes and best practices, and build a regional equity movement.  The bi-annual summit offers an opportunity for us to learn from each other and to engage in a dialogue for action.