2014 – 2016

The Creating Health Collaborative

A highly-curated meeting of community-oriented innovators

Through my Wellthcare project, I visited and researched numerous innovative projects, many in the US and some in the UK, the Netherlands, Mexico, New Zealand and elsewhere. After a while, some of the innovators wanted to meet the others so in 2015 I founded a ‘collaborative’ — a space for them to describe their work, share their struggles and explore solutions. The Collaborative met in New York and took its name from Aaron Antonovsky’s idea of salutogenesis – literally ‘creating health’.

The Creating Health Collaborative

Publications

  • Fostering Agency to Improve Health
  • Commumnity, Movements and Spread
  • The Creating Health Collaborative

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

  • Wrapping Up the Commentaries on ‘Eleven Principles for Creating Health’

    Pritpal S Tamber | September 29, 2016
    In this post, Pritpal S Tamber wraps up the twelve commentaries that were commissioned to comment on the Collaborative’s last report, ‘Eleven Principles for Creating Health’ (and apologises in advance for its length)

  • Look Back When Reaching Forward

    Geoffrey W. Wilkinson | August 31, 2016
    Geoffrey W. Wilkinson reminds us that much of it has been said – and done – before; just because the goals are yet to be won does not mean we can ignore the lessons of the past or get away with being less brave and less inclusive than others have been

  • A Brief Recap of CHC 2016

    Pritpal S Tamber | August 18, 2016
    An overview of the 18 presentations from the 24 participants of ‘CHC 2016’, this year’s meeting of the Creating Health Collaborative, a growing community of innovators trying to understand – and create – health from the perspective of people and communities. The meeting was held July 28-29 in New York

  • Be Plain, Inspire and Include

    John Craig | August 11, 2016
    John Craig describes how the Collaborative’s principles for creating health provoke him to demand a clearer critique of health care today, as well as an inclusive and inspiring vision of tomorrow

  • Why Can It Be So Hard to Make Stuff Happen?

    Ian Burbidge | August 3, 2016
    In this invited commentary Ian Burbidge argues that putting people at the heart of their health requires existing systems to change in ways they seem unprepared to do, despite their rhetoric

  • An Update on the Creating Health Collaborative

    Pritpal S Tamber | July 20, 2016
    Announcing the participants of CHC 2016, the annual meeting of the Creating Health Collaborative, a larger gathering pencilled for October, and the desire to find like-minded funders

  • Making What Matters, Matter

    Nancy Adler and Erin Hagan | July 13, 2016
    Nancy Adler and Erin Hagan share how their work with Evidence for Action is aligned with two of the Collaborative’s principles for creating health, measuring what matters and sharing power

  • Listen To Your Patient

    Megan Sandel | July 7, 2016
    Megan Sandel, Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Boston University School of Medicine, argues that it’s only through listening to community members can we begin to achieve health equity

  • [Co]-Creating Health

    Pritpal S Tamber and David Derauf | July 1, 2016
    David D Derauf argues that it is not the role of health professionals to reconceive health but to ask people and communities how we can rightfully participate in a process of resurfacing and clarifying what health is