The County Health Rankings show us that where we live matters to our health. The health of a community depends on many different factors - ranging from health behaviors, education and jobs, to quality of health care, to the environment.

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County Health Roadmaps

The County Health Roadmaps project includes several efforts to build connections with local communities and national partners and leaders, including grants to coalitions across the U.S. that are working to improve the health of people in their communities; grants to national organizations to activate local leaders and affiliates to improve health; a prize program to recognize communities taking action whose promising efforts will likely lead to better health; and tools and resources to help groups working to improve the health of people in their communities.

  • Roadmaps to Health Community Grants

    • The Roadmaps to Health Community Grants, which support two-year state and local efforts among policymakers, business, education, health care, public health and community organizations, are managed by Community Catalyst, a national consumer health advocacy organization.
    • These grantees are working to create positive policy or systems changes that address the social and economic factors that impact the health of people in their community.
    • The grantees will build on the RWJF/UWPHI County Health Rankings model, which highlights the critical role that factors such as education, jobs, income, and our environment play in influencing how healthy people are and how long they live. The Roadmaps to Health grantees are working to create healthier places to live, learn, work and play.
    • First round awardees
    • The Call for Proposals for the second round of Community Grants will be available in March 2012.

  • Roadmaps to Health Action Center

    • The Roadmaps to Health Action Center will provide tools and resources to help groups working to make their communities healthier places to live, learn, work and play.
    • In addition to the resources currently on the County Health Rankings website, the new Action Center will host a searchable database of evidence-informed policies and programs focused on health improvement, offer opportunities for peer-to-peer learning and provide guidance on developing solutions and advocacy efforts to advance pro-health policies.
    • Experts from the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute will provide customized consultation to local communities who have demonstrated the willingness and capacity to address factors that we know influence how healthy a person is, such as education, income and family connectedness.

  • Roadmaps to Health Partner Grants

    • The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation will award Roadmaps to Health Partner Grants to up to six national organizations that are experienced at engaging local partners and leaders; able to deliver high-quality training and technical assistance, and committed to making communities healthier places to live, learn, work and play.
    • Partner Grantees will be charged with increasing awareness about the County Health Rankings to its members, affiliates and allies, each in a customized way that makes sense within their organization.
    • The first Partner Grant was awarded to United Way Worldwide (UWW) in July 2011. UWW aims to educate local United Way affiliates about the role that factors such as education, jobs, income, and environment play in determining how healthy people are and how long they live, so that these affiliates can lead community stakeholders’ efforts to address these factors.  Twelve local United Way organizations have been tapped to form a Health Mobilization Group and have pledged to move policy, systems, and environmental change forward in their communities.

  • Roadmaps to Health Prize

    • The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute will award Roadmaps to Health Prizes of $25,000 to up to six communities that are working to become healthier places to live, learn work and play.
    • The Roadmaps to Health Prize is intended not only to honor successful efforts, but to inspire and stimulate similar activities in other U.S. communities.
    • Any U.S. community (defined here as a town, city, county, region or tribe) can apply for the Roadmaps to Health Prize. The Foundation and UWPHI seek a diverse group of applicants—health improvement efforts are happening in large urban settings and small rural ones; in places with tremendous resources and in places with few resources to draw from; and in places with relatively few health challenges and in places where the challenges are many and daunting.
    • The winning communities must demonstrate, among other criteria, that their efforts to improve health are being coordinated through collaborative partnerships and its progress is being carefully measured.
    • The Call for Applications for the first Roadmaps to Health Prizes will be available in March 2012.