Our Mission & Vision
Co-designing to create more equitable systems of health, with the caregivers and local workforces communities trust most.
Our Vision
Health, well-being and dignity for every person, in every community.
Our Mission
We partner with communities and health systems to address systemic causes of inequity and disease. We do this by removing barriers that keep people from identifying, accessing and choosing the resources everyone needs to be healthy.
“Health Leads’ next chapter is not about inventing something from scratch. It is about building on 30 years of learning and partnership, and backing the caregivers, community-based organizations, and communities who already know what works.”
Alexandra Quinn
Health Leads CEO
Our Approach
For 30 years, Health Leads has worked at the intersection of health care, public health, and community to improve access to the resources and create the conditions we all need to thrive. With every project, from maternal health to housing to COVID response to food security to technology access, we continue to see how the greatest impact occurs when the caregivers and care workforces closest to a community lead on designing what communities need most.
Co-design isn’t a single program or intervention, but a discipline. It means shifting from informing or consulting communities toward genuine shared power: caregivers and community members setting the agenda, shaping the solutions, and holding decision-making authority alongside institutions, not underneath them.
“For 30 years, Health Leads has shown that lasting health equity solutions are strongest when they are designed with and led by communities. This strategy brings our experience, partnerships, and resources together to strengthen the caregivers and organizations that communities rely upon most.”
— Dominique Morgan, Chief Operating Officer, Health Leads
How We Partner
This is the lens we bring to every partnership: strengthening care workforce infrastructure not as an end in itself, but as the mechanism through which communities gain real authority over the systems and resources that shape their health. It’s how 30 years of grassroots relationships and cross-sector trust translate into lasting, community-owned progress toward racial health equity.
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Our Values
How we work is a key part of how we make an impact. We’re guided by four core values – not only across our internal teams, but in all of our partnerships.
Shared Leadership
Collaboration to achieve our mission is rooted in mutual trust and respect.
Justice through Equity & Inclusion
Equity work is a constant practice, not a one-time set of trainings
Empathy & Genuine Relationships
Meaningful connections, understanding and compassion fuel our work.
Constant & Courageous Learning
Feedback and reflection is essential to growth.