Mobilizer
Implementation that improves health outcomes.
About
Our mission
The Common Health Coalition is the nation's largest multi-sector health collaborative - a first-of-its-kind initiative spanning clinician groups, health departments, hospitals, payers, and community organizations. By uniting leaders who rarely share the same table, we turn alignment into action at a scale no single sector can reach alone.
Our common goal is to improve the health of people and communities across the nation. We do this by strengthening partnership and dissolving siloes between the health care and public health systems. The Coalition is a nonpartisan, not-for-profit organization.
Our story
Founded in 2023 by the Alliance of Community Health Plans, AHIP, the American Hospital Association, the American Medical Association, and Kaiser Permanente, the Coalition now represents hundreds of members across nearly every state and territory in the U.S.
CARE framework
Health care and public health institutions responded to the COVID-19 pandemic by forging novel, impactful partnerships. Organizations established formal agreements for information- and resource-sharing, developed and deployed emergency response plans, shared data more readily, and demonstrated the lifesaving function of infectious disease detection systems.
The Common Health Coalition was formed to cement these crisis-driven strategies into existing infrastructure and strengthen partnership between health care and public health systems, particularly to advance health equity, using our CARE framework.
Our approach
The Coalition serves its members as a national mobilizer, matchmaker, and megaphone, working to translate the lessons learned from past health crises into lessons mobilized for non-crisis times.
Matchmaker
Building bridges between Coalition members.
Megaphone
Amplifying work at the intersection of health sectors.
Our members
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Coalition members
12 Baskets; Asheville Poverty Initiative
North Carolina
A Healthier Democracy/Link Health
Massachusetts
A-Vision Community Health Services
Virginia
ABIM Foundation
District of Columbia
Access Health Stark County
Ohio
African American Health Coalition
Texas
AHIP
District of Columbia
AIRnyc
New York
Al-Munir LLC
New Jersey
Alameda County Public Health Department
California
Aliados Health
California
Alianza Comunitaria de Promotores
California
All My Usos
California
All-In Cincinnati Equity Coalition
Ohio
Alliance for Aging Research
District of Columbia
Alliance of Community Health Plans
District of Columbia
AltaMed Health Services Corp
California
Altarum
Virginia
America’s Essential Hospitals
District of Columbia
America’s Physician Groups
District of Columbia
American Academy of Pediatrics
District of Columbia
American Association of Public Health Physicians
Washington
American Hospital Association
District of Columbia
American Lung Association
Illinois
American Medical Association
Illinois
American Nurses Association
District of Columbia
American Psychiatric Association
District of Columbia
American Psychological Association
District of Columbia
American Public Health Association
District of Columbia
American Red Cross
District of Columbia
Join the Coalition
Joining the Coalition is easy. If you are a health care or public health organization, click below, fill out the form, and tell us what you plan to do or are doing to advance the mission.
Join the CoalitionFor the media
Press releases
The 2026 Common Health Challenge: Catalyzing and growing regional action networks
December 17, 2025
Read moreStatement on supporting vaccine recommendations from leading medical societies
September 17, 2025
Read moreProject UNITY and Common Health Coalition launch national incubator to advance youth-led public health innovation
July 14, 2025
Read moreCoalition Team
Dave A. Chokshi, MD, MSc
Chair
Chelsea Cipriano, MPH
Managing Director
Rebecca Giglio, MPH
Deputy Director
Michael Lanza, MPA
Communications Director
Velda Wang, BS, BA
Special Projects Manager
Janine Knudsen, MD
Senior Strategy Advisor
Chris Chen, MD, MBA
Senior Medical Advisor
Leadership
Steering Committee
Our Steering Committee provides core leadership, strategic direction, and resources for CHC decision-making, management, and operations.
Kate Berry, MPP
Senior Vice President, Clinical Affairs and Strategic Partnerships
AHIP
Dan Jones, MA
Senior Vice President, Federal Affairs
Alliance of Community Health Plans (ACHP)
Michelle Hood, MHA
Executive Vice President/Chief Operating Officer
American Hospital Association (AHA)
Andrea Garcia, JD, MPH
Vice President of Science, Medicine, and Public Health
American Medical Association (AMA)
Susan Kansagra, MD, MBA
Chief Medical Officer (Advisory Council Co-Chair)
ASTHO
Chrissie Juliano, MPP
Executive Director (Advisory Council Co-Chair)
Big Cities
Bechara Choucair, MD
Executive Vice President and Chief Health Officer
Kaiser Permanente
Leadership
Advisory Council
Our Advisory Council provides strategic advice, acts as a check on operational feasibility, and ensures CHC's accountability to public health principles.
Co-Chairs
Susan Kansagra
Chrissie Juliano
Members
A.C. Locklear, JD
Alice Hm Chen, MD, MPH
Anand Parekh, MD, MPH
Anne Zink, MD
Brian Castrucci, DrPH, MA
Chrissie Juliano, MPP
Claude Pirtle, MD, MBA
Fred Cerise, MD, MPH
Georges Benjamin, MD
Hemi Tewarson, JD, MPH
J. Nadine Gracia, MD, MSCE
Jackie Gerhart, MD
Janet Hamilton, MPH
Jay Bhatt, DO, MPH, MPA
John Auerbach, MBA
Josh Sharfstein, MD
Judy Monroe, MD
Katelyn Jetelina, PhD, MPH
Lindsay Weaver, MD
Lori Freeman, MBA
M. Norman Oliver, MD, MA
Mandy Cohen, MD, MPH
Marc Gourevitch, MD, MPH
Mark McClellan, MD, PhD
Meena Seshamani, MD, PhD
Megan Ranney, MD, MPH
Melissa Harvey, MS
Melissa Stafford Jones, MPH
Michelle Morse, MD, MPH
Monica Bharel, MD, MPH
Natasha Bagdasarian, MD, MPH
Nicholas Stine, MD
Nicole Lurie, MD, MSPH
Onora Lien, MSc
Pritesh Gandhi, MD, MPH
Rishi Manchanda, MD, MPH
Scott Harris, MD, MPH
Sejal Hathi, MD, MBA
Susan Dentzer, MS
Susan Kansagra, MD, MBA
Umair Shah, MD, MPH
Victor Dzau, MD
Vivek Garg, MD, MBA