Accelerate Health Equity is a city-wide initiative that aims to address health equity and racism while advancing health through a unified approach. Their mission is to combat racism within healthcare by supporting and evaluating evidence-based interventions that address racism and improve the health of Black Philadelphians. This initiative brings together key stakeholders from health systems, payors, and community organizations to work collaboratively and improve health outcomes.

They commit to community and stakeholder engagement, as well as partnerships, to establish goals and priorities. Accelerate Health Equity focuses on measuring the percentage change in specific measures over time to support and accelerate the scaling of effective interventions. They utilize behavioral economics, human-centered design, and health services research to conduct rigorous pilots.

By incorporating diverse data sources and community input, they aim to track progress and inform measurement and reporting. The initiative identifies 16 topic areas of focus that are relevant and important to affected communities, have the potential to achieve health equity, and can catalyze significant improvement in community health. To learn more about their work and access their health equity dashboard, visit their website