The Justice, Health and Democracy Impact Initiative connects the best expertise to on-the-ground need with rapid “orient-do-learn-do” cycles of research, policy implementation and locally-driven innovation.
Orient
Our experts work with leader practitioners to understand the challenge people are facing on a policy issue from multiple levels of governance: local, state and national. Experts then incorporate the needs of practitioners and people into policy research. We then stress test policy approaches with practitioners to ensure the policy solution: 1) is coordinated across jurisdictions; and 2) addresses needs at the local, state and national levels.
Do-Learn-Do
We then work with partners at the national, state and local levels to broadly disseminate the policy solution. We follow up with partners to understand how the policy is being implemented on the ground, what is working, what needs further refinement, and how leader practitioners are innovating the policy to meet the needs of their communities. Leader practitioner experiences, learnings and feedback are then incorporated into our research to refine the policy solution, which is then shared with national level policy makers and associations.