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 The Healthy Environment Partnership (HEP) is a community-based participatory research partnership with a focus on understanding and promoting heart health in Detroit neighborhoods. We examine and develop interventions to address aspects of the social and physical environment that contribute to racial and socioeconomic disparities in cardiovascular disease.
Established in 2000, we are a partnership among: Detroit community organizations, including Brightmoor Community Center, Detroit Hispanic Development Corporation, Friends of Parkside, Detroit Neighborhood Partnership East- Warren/Conner Development Coalition; the Institute for Population Health; Henry Ford Health System; a community-member-at-large; and the University of Michigan School of Public Health.
We are an affiliated project of the Detroit Community-Academic Urban Research Center (Detroit URC).
As part of our Comparative Effectiveness Research for Eliminating Disparities (CERED), we developed video reenactments of stories that were conveyed to Walk Your Heart to Health walking group participants to build social support and problem-solving skills. An overview of the process and the stories are available to view on the CERED page of our website.
We have been awarded a Community-Based Participatory Research Initiative grant by the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities. CATCH-D aims to integrate and share results from the Walk Your Heart to Health intervention. Over the next 3 years, we will work with community-based, faith-based and health services organizations in Detroit to expand the walking group initiative and enhance neighborhood environments to promote heart health. Read the full story by clicking on the title above.
Walk Your Heart to Health (WYHH) is our walking group program for Detroiters who want to get out and walk together to improve their heart health. This blog contains all the information you need about our walking groups and about how they can help you improve your health and the health of your community. Visit the blog at: www.wyhh.wordpress.com
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