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We help trusted local voices lead better health conversations—with practical tools, credible information, and support from a national network.

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We are healthier Together

Health decisions are shaped through conversations with people we know and trust. In a world of overwhelming and conflicting information, communities need trusted local voices with the tools and support to help people make informed decisions. Healthier Together strengthens these relationships by equipping community partners with practical resources, credible information, and a national network—because the most effective health conversations start within communities, not outside them.
Explore Our Communities

Our mission is to transform health communication by strengthening the trusted, community-rooted relationships that help people make informed health decisions—on their own terms.

Centering Local Leadership

 We support the people communities already turn to by connecting them to reliable information, practical tools, and a peer network of others doing this work locally.

Investing in Partnerships and Networks

We connect trusted voices across sectors and communities, building a system where what's working locally informs what gets built and funded nationally, ensuring resources flow in both directions.

Local Voice, National Resources

We connect communities to national expertise and guidance while keeping local voices in the driver's seat — with the authority and flexibility to adapt everything to their community's needs.

Our approach starts where trust already lives—equipping trusted voices with the tools, evidence, and connections to lead better informed local conversations. This is achieved through:

Equipping Local Voices

A national network connecting trusted community voices to reliable information, practical communication skills, and peers across the country doing the same work.

Aligning Resources

A resource exchange where local leaders can find, adapt, and request health resources that fit their community, making health information more responsive to local needs.

Uniting Leaders

A National Advisory Council of bipartisan, cross-sector leaders who guide strategy, expand reach, and ensure this work stays grounded in what communities actually need.

Our leadership reflects the dynamism and diversity of America, spanning sectors, geographies, political affiliations, cultures, heritages, faiths, and other differences to bring people and communities together to build a healthier and more resilient nation.

National Advisory Council
Danielle Allen
James Bryant Conant University Professor and Director, Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard University
Melody Barnes
Executive Director, Karsh Institute of Democracy at UVA; Former Director, White House Domestic Policy Council
Robert Califf
Head of Clinical Policy and Strategy, Verily and Google Health
Chris Christie
Former Governor (R-New Jersey)
Mitch Daniels
President, Purdue University; Former Governor (R-Indiana)
Charity Dean
 CEO and Co-Founder, The Public Health Company
Arne Duncan
Managing partner, Emerson Collective; Former U.S. Secretary of Education
Harvey Fineberg
President, The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
Julio Frenk
Chancellor, University of California, Los Angeles; Former Secretary of Health of Mexico
Bill Frist
Former U.S. Senator (R-Tennessee)
Joe Grogan
Former Director of the Domestic Policy Council of the United States
Derrick Johnson
President and CEO, NAACP
Michael Leavitt
Former Governor (R-Utah); Founder, Leavitt Partners
Mark McClellan
Director of the Margolis Center for Health Policy, Duke University
Valerie Montgomery Rice
President, Morehouse School of Medicine
Alan Morgan
Chief Executive Officer, The National Rural Health Association
Kathleen Sebelius
Former U.S. Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services; CEO, Sebelius Resources LLC
Hemi Tewarson
Duke-Margolis Visiting Senior Policy Fellow
Reed Tuckson
Former Executive Vice President and Chief of Medical Affairs, UnitedHealth Group; Managing Director, Tuckson Health Connections, LLC
Rick Warren
American Evangelical minister, Founder, Saddleback Valley Community Church; Best-selling Author
Team
Breannon Babbel
Executive Director
Gary Edson
Co-Chair; President, Covid Collaborative; Co-Chair and President More Perfect; former U.S. Deputy National Security Advisor and Deputy National Economic Advisor
Katelyn Jetelina
Co-Chair; Founder and CEO, Your Local Epidemiologist
Heather Lanthorn
Co-Chair; Assistant Director, Research and Programs at the Duke Global Health Innovation Center
Jack Leslie
Co-Chair; Chairman Emeritus, Weber Shandwick; Senior Visiting Fellow, Duke Global Health Institute; Visiting Fellow, Duke-Margolis Institute for Health Policy
Krishna Udayakumar
Co-Chair; Founding Director of the Duke Global Health Innovation Center
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