Health Equity And Leadership Conference

"Take to the streets!" - Dr. Rima Rudd

"We come to the work with an appreciate that a deficit driven orientation can do some harm. [Vital Village] is beginning with the assumption that there are already solutions in the communities. We bring light to them and work to have them be scaled up rather than a new intervention from outside being brought in to be adopted." Dr. Renee Boynton-Jarrett, MD, ScD

Perhaps our job is to create a space to enact and build on existing efforts within communities rather than bringing in our own replicates.

Dr. Renee Boynton Jarrett on Engaging Communities

We mistakenly assume that we all start at ground level, but we are not all on common ground.

One of the glaring is the mismatch between what we know and what we do (about it). Dr. Boynton-Jarrett