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Case Study

Aligning in Action: Allegheny County Health Department

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This Aligning in Action case study explores Plan for a Healthier Allegheny Advisory Coalition’s best practices for effectively aligning systems to meaningfully impact health inequities in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.

The case study examines how communities that describe their work as aligning systems are doing it around four core components of a theory of change that the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Georgia Health Policy Center are testing: purpose, governance, data, and sustainable financing mechanisms.


The Allegheny County Health Department serves as the backbone organization aligning efforts of a large, multi-sectoral collaborative focused on implementing the Plan for a Healthier Allegheny.

Aligning Systems for Health: Health Care + Public Health + Social Services, sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and managed by the Georgia Health Policy Center, is focused on learning from stakeholders across the nation about effective ways to align these three sectors to better meet people’s goals and needs.

Webinar

Theory of Change Charette

This webinar features an overview of RWJF's Cross-Sector Alignment Theory of Change and recaps stakeholder input into how the Theory of Change can better support the work of those implementing cross-sector alignment.

Brief

Cross-Sector Alignment and the Response to COVID-19

This brief examines factors supporting cross-sector alignment; presents findings relevant to the response to the COVID crisis; and presents challenges and response opportunities related to several key elements of the Cross-Sector Alignment Theory of Change: sectors, shared purpose, governance, finance, data, community voice, equity, capacity, and urgency.

Case Study

Aligning in Action: Healthy Homes Des Moines

This case study examines Healthy Homes Des Moines, a pilot program to provide home remediation and health education to reduce the burden of childhood asthma. The goal of the pilot was to demonstrate the value of an upstream intervention to the community and to health care providers.