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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 Detroit Hispanic Development Corporation, Friends of Parkside, Detroit Neighborhood Partnership East- Warren/Conner Development Coalition; the Institute for Population Health; Henry Ford Health System; community-members-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).
UPDATES:Announcing Community Action to Promote Healthy Environments (CA-PHE)
Over the next 5 years, leaders from the University of Michigan School of Public Health and Detroit community-based organizations will embark on a new initiative to improve air quality in Detroit. Data will be gathered to understand the factors influencing air quality and findings will be used to create an action plan and policy recommendations aimed at reducing the effects of air pollution on residents' health.
Announcing the Detroit! Walk Your Heart to Health Capacity Building Program
We are providing resources and capcity building and technical assistance to community groups interested in improving heart health in Detroit through walking. If you are interested in starting a walking group in your neighborhood, learning how to engage policy makers to create changes in you neighborhood, or simply learning about other organizations in your area that are working to improve commuinty health, consider applying. Deadline: Wednesday, February 26, 2014 by 5:00pm.
Storytelling in the Walk Your Heart to Health Walking Group Intervention
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.
Press Release: Community Approaches to Cardiovascular Health - Dissemination (CATCH-D)
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.
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