Building Partnerships to Improve Health

Hi everyone! I’m Olga Tomasello, Community Health Strategy and Policy Manager at Urban Health Partnerships. I help community leaders and organizations work together on the issues that matter most to our neighborhoods.

Access to care, food insecurity, transportation, and social isolation don’t have just one cause, and no one person or organization can fix them alone. They’re shaped by where we live, what services we can reach, and the decisions made about our communities. When we bring our time, skills, and resources together, every effort goes further. That’s what collective impact means: residents, community groups, health providers, and local leaders working together, building on what’s already here instead of starting from scratch.

That’s how we work at UHP. You can see it in the Miami-Dade Age-Friendly Initiative, which helps make our county a better place to live at every age; In CommUNITY, which works to improve the health and well-being of LGBTQ+ residents; and Bridge to Action, an NIH-funded study making sure residents have a real voice in how health planning gets done. In all of it, we work side by side with residents so the solutions reflect what matters to them.

That’s why your support matters. Together, we can keep building healthier, stronger communities.