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Centering community engagement can meaningfully influence and impact the health and well-being of people. It can advance health equity and transform systems for health (e.g., health care policies and programs, housing, transportation) by ensuring that people closest to the problems are actively involved in driving needed changes and solutions.

Whatever the starting point or context, meaningful community engagement requires working collaboratively with those who share similar situations, concerns, or challenges. Shifting toward meaningful community engagement often requires decision makers to defer to communities and share power. These are necessary elements for sustainable change that improves health and well-being and leads to equitable transformation.

There are many resources available, yet few exist on how to measure the impact of engagement. The Assessing Meaningful Community Engagement in Health and Health Care Policies and Programs effort focuses on how to measure whether engagement is meaningful and impactful to a range of audiences. To learn more about the project, go to the about page.