November 2016 – December 2018

Bridging Health & Community, Inc.

A Seattle-based nonprofit to grow community-oriented practice

Key members of the Creating Health Collaborative and I co-founded a nonprofit dedicated to growing community-oriented practice. Our major achievements were a national symposium (Community Agency & Health), an eBook (Communities Creating Health), an implementation tool for the 12 principles for community-oriented work, and research into how public health might use community power building as a way to improve health.

Bridging Health & Community

Publications

  • Communities Creating Health
  • Bringing Purpose to Community Engagement
  • Fostering Agency to Improve Health

Related Posts

  • An Hour That Changed My Life 

    Pritpal S Tamber | May 15, 2025
    S. Leonard Syme, who died in January, changed how we understand health and guided me to the importance of control, agency and power

  • The Ghosts of Work Past

    Pritpal S Tamber | November 28, 2024
    A scolding, a thank you, and a reminder to just start doing

  • The New Version of Our Application Tool

    Pritpal S Tamber | August 1, 2019
    To help you understand, embrace and apply the lessons from over 100 community-oriented practitioners

  • Seeing the Challenges as They Are

    Pritpal S Tamber | February 7, 2019
    Three articles have reminded me that the core challenge to bridging health and community is healthcare-centricity

  • Community Power & Public Health

    Pritpal S Tamber | December 12, 2018
    In this post, we share the findings of our research into what it will take for public health to embrace community power building as a strategy

  • Community Power & Public Health: A Webinar

    Pritpal S Tamber | November 14, 2018
    Announcing our December 4th webinar at which we’ll share our findings into what it’ll take for public health to adopt strategies that strengthen a community’s collective ability to improve population health

  • What BH&C Will Do Next (Part 5 of 5)

    Pritpal S Tamber | October 17, 2018
    In part five of this five-part series, I share how we intend to keep learning from courageous practitioners while building a learning environment for those that want to follow

  • What Next: Getting Beyond A List (Part 4 of 5)

    Pritpal S Tamber | October 3, 2018
    In part four of this five-part series, I share how we tried to make the Principles into a product and find a market, and what we learned through the process

  • What Next: Control and Health (Part 3 of 5)

    Pritpal S Tamber | September 19, 2018
    In part three of this five-part series, I share how I learned that the 12 Principles are about control – a way to foster it amongst communities and enable health care to share it

  • What Next: The Search for A New Dialog (Part 2 of 5)

    Pritpal S Tamber | September 5, 2018
    In part two of this five-part series, I share how my search for a new dialog led to ‘discovering’ social capital and made me want to ‘de-fluff’ community-building work