Focus Areas
Health Equity
Mt. Auburn is working to advance health equity through our consulting services to nonprofits, philanthropies, and other organizations focused on addressing the root causes that produce health inequities.
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's (RWJF) Invest Health Initiative
MAA has been a long-time evaluation and learning partner of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. We recently completed a nine-year engagement evaluating Invest Health. This initiative mobilized cross-sector teams in 50 small and midsize cities to address the social determinants of health. MAA served as the developmental evaluator through all four phases, using extensive document reviews, surveys, and stakeholder interviews, combined with facilitated discussions with RWJF, Reinvestment Fund, and other consultants, to inform six years of adaptive implementation. As the city teams’ work shifted from focusing on built-environment projects to broader organizational and systemic reforms toward health equity, our evaluation traced that evolution, documented initiative-wide outcomes, assessed the program’s influence on the field, and distilled key insights for funders and intermediaries.
view the report (pdf)ReThink Health Ventures Project for the Rippel Foundation
Mt. Auburn provided consulting and evaluation services to ReThink Health, the collaborative flagship initiative of the Rippel Foundation, on the Ventures Project. The firm initially assisted in the design and site selection for a major initiative involving nine sites focused on rethinking their health systems. Following site selection of six teams, ReThink engaged Mt. Auburn as the initiative evaluator. We designed a rubric for measuring site progress, wrote baseline overviews of each site, fielded a partnership survey, interviewed team members at various points in time during the initiative, tracked team documents and data, observed several convenings, and wrote a final report along with six case studies. The ReThink Health Ventures site selection process resulted in Beth Siegel co-authoring a report, “Multisector Partnerships Need Further Development To Fulfill Aspirations For Transforming Regional Health And Well-Being,” published in Health Affairs.
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