Community-Driven Initiatives
Community-Driven Initiatives is a program within the Department of Population Health that seeks to support and implement health solutions proposed by and for residents of Austin and Central Texas communities. The program advances community health by fostering partnerships, advising on areas of opportunity, promoting leadership development and much more.
Community-Driven Initiatives conducts all of its work with an eye toward community servanthood. Contact the team at CDI@austin.utexas.edu.
Focus Areas
To support the best ideas for improving community health, the team focuses on the following.
- Identifying persons in Austin, Travis County and Central Texas who have ideas to improve the health of their communities and neighborhoods. Since the places individuals live and work in influence health, who best to enhance the health of a community than those who live and work there.
- Implementing and supporting local solutions and scale those that improve the health of surrounding communities.
- Identifying and supporting exceptional people and ideas that may otherwise not have a source for support, as well as facilitating connections to help test new and exciting ideas.
- Facilitating and supporting experiential learning opportunities with community organizations for students in Dell Med’s Health Leadership Apprentice Program.
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