Creating a Community of Solutions Through a Culture of Abundance
Each orange dot represents a member location.
BY THE NUMBERS
648 member organizations and individuals are working on the ground to improve health.
189 partners are ready to play a leadership role.
In the United States, our members and partners reach more than 100 million people, more than 100 health care organizations, and more than 200 communities.
537 action plans have been submitted by members.
MEMBERSHIP
Each orange dot represents a member location.
BY THE NUMBERS
648 member organizations and individuals are working on the ground to improve health.
189 partners are ready to play a leadership role.
In the United States, our members and partners reach more than 100 million people, more than 100 health care organizations, and more than 200 communities.
537 action plans have been submitted by members.
MEMBERSHIP
100 Million Healthier Lives is an unprecedented collaboration
of change agents pursuing an unprecedented result: 100
million people living healthier lives by 2020. Together we are
fundamentally transforming the way the world thinks and acts
to improve health.
OUR THEORY OF CHANGE
We’re convinced that dramatic improvements in health and wellbeing are
possible if we can harness the power of unprecedented collaboration, adopt
a humble spirit of innovative improvement, and create catalytic system
transformation to remove barriers and accelerate progress.
OUR PRIORITIES
To determine our priorities, we sought recommendations from work groups
of cross-sector experts on what changes would be most critical to achieve
the audacious goal of 100 million people living healthier lives by 2020. Then
we combed through hundreds of member action plans to understand what
was important to them and what assets our members bring to the table. The
priorities described below emerged as the most critical for our shared learning
and action together. Topical hubs are forming to organize our work on these
priorities and individual members are encouraged to identify where they want
to focus their efforts. Priorities fall into two categories: whats and hows.
UNPRECEDENTED COLLABORATION
SPREAD OF INNOVATIONINNOVATIVE
IMPROVEMENT
SYSTEM TRANSFORMATION
100 MILLION PEOPLE LIVING
HEALTHIER LIVES BY 2020
9 WHATS
1. Address equity gaps – this is the “price of admission” in 100 Million Healthier Lives.
2. Help all kids have a great start in life, with all the skills they and their families need to flourish from cradle to career.
3. Support veterans to thrive.
4. Reclaim the health, wellbeing, and dignity of indigenous communities.
5. Address the social and behavioral determinants of health across health care, the community, and social services, with a special focus on vulnerable populations.
6. Make mental health everybody’s job, across the continuum of health care, the community, public health, and social services.
7. Improve access to primary health care for all.
8. Create the best possible wellbeing in the elder years and at the end of life.
9. Engage everyone in improving their own health and in building a culture and practice of healthy living.
9 HOWS
1. Shift culture and mindset to one of partnership, co-design, and wellbeing.
2. Develop workforce strategies — engage students and youth as leaders in the transformation.
3. Integrate peer-to-peer support systems into every relevant initiative.
4. Integrate improvement and change methods at the community level.
5. Focus on the top chronic diseases in each commu-nity and core risk factors to build a continuum of health that spans the home, the community, public health, and health care.
6. Develop and adopt financing strategies that align funding at the community level.
7. Integrate data across silos (health care, community, public health, and social services).
8. Engage employers and businesses to improve workforce health and wellbeing.
9. Transform health care to be good at health and good at care.
MEMBERSHIP AND ENGAGEMENT
To join, individuals and organizations submit an
action plan committing to work toward the goal of
100 million people living healthier lives by 2020.
The action plan helps us understand their health
improvement priorities, the assets they bring, and the
people and communities they reach.
Visit ihi.org/100MLives to join, and indicate your level
of participation in one or more of these categories:
• Members: Individuals and organizations working
on the ground to improve health and who want to
be part of a community working together to create
the change that is needed.
• Partners: Individuals and organizations who are
ready and willing to play a leadership role in 100
Million Healthier Lives.
• Sponsors: Individuals and organizations who can
financially support 100 Million Healthier Lives.
Once you join 100 Million Healthier Lives, there are
lots of opportunities to engage in the work.
BECOME A CHANGE AGENT
This is a movement of leaders at every level working
together to make a difference. Opportunities to become
engaged as a change agent include:
• Working with your organization or community
to improve health, well being, and equity on
the ground.
• Connecting other change agents to the movement.
• Contributing to building our shared support system.
• Supporting transformation of policy and systems.
• Networking with other change agents on our
online learning community called HealthDoers
and by joining monthly momentum calls.
JOIN A HUB
Become involved in the work of Topical hubs, made
up of the people and organizations leading the
thinking, learning, and acting of 100 Million Healthier
Lives in specific priority areas such as Child Health,
Veterans Health, and Equity. Geographic hubs consist
of organizations with the capacity to engage local
health systems and communities and to coordinate
participation in 100 Million Healthier Lives for a
geographic area.
PARTICIPATE IN INITIATIVES RELATED TO A 100 MILLION HEALTHIER LIVES
100 Million Healthier Lives is committed to action
and demonstrating results on the ground through
large-scale, multi-partner initiatives such as these
flagship examples:
• Spreading Community Accelerators through
Learning and Evaluation (SCALE) is the first
community-based initiative of 100 Million
Healthier Lives. SCALE will help communities
develop capability to improve health and spread
effective community-driven approaches to
help build a culture of health. The two-year
SCALE initiative engages 24 communities from
across the US and is funded by the Robert Wood
Johnson Foundation (RWJF). Communities were
selected through an application process, visit ihi.
org/100mlives to view the full list of communities.
• Pathway to Pacesetter (P2P) is a multi-year program
(October 2015 through March 2017) to support
more than 100 communities in accelerating their
improvement journey. The goal of P2P is to support
local leaders at every level of a community to be
successful and multiply their effectiveness in
achieving their existing vision and goals. Please
visit ihi.org/100MLives to learn more about
participating in this program.
Join the movement.
ihi.org/100MLives