Empowering physicians to find solutions

The AMA is excited to announce the recipients of the inaugural Community Health Impact Lab micro grants, which provide funding to 20 physician-led projects that are making a difference at the local level on critical issues like community care delivery, food is medicine, maternal health and family support, mental health and safety, and screening and risk reduction. 

“The Community Health Impact Lab micro grants were designed for this moment. It gives physicians the resources to confront these community health challenges head-on—to design, lead and measure real solutions.” 

—John Whyte, MD, MPH, CEO and executive vice president, American Medical Association 

Community care delivery

Breaking Access Barriers in the Mississippi Delta

Delta Health System, Mississippi

Bringing Rehabilitation Care to People Experiencing Homelessness: The Mobile Rehabilitation Project

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York

HANDS at the Bedside

Northwestern Medicine, Illinois

Hemoglobin A1C Project

Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Texas

Hybrid Mobile-Telehealth & Community-Centered Access Initiative

Luke's House - A Clinic for Healing and Hope, Louisiana

Sturdy Health Transportation & Companion Access Program

Sturdy Health, Massachusetts

Food is medicine

A Physician-Led, Community-Centered Nutrition Initiative to Support Indigenous Women’s Health Across the Life Course

The Queen’s Medical Center, Hawaii

Community-Engaged Food is Medicine in Rural Kansas

University of Kansas Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, Kansas

Supporting Families with Food Insecurity through MEAL Nationwide Expansion

Lantern, Colorado

Maternal health & family support

A Community-Based, Psychoeducational Approach to Mitigating Toxic Stress among Families within a Large FQHC Pediatric Primary Care Setting

AltaMed Health Services Corporation, California

Bridging the Gap Project: Advancing Postpartum Cardiovascular Health Equity for Black Mothers in Mecklenburg County, NC

The Women's Empowerment and Birth Equity Institute, North Carolina

Primary Care Innovations to Support Heart Health after Hypertensive Pregnancies

Boston Medical Center, Massachusetts 

Scripts to School & Home

Children’s National, District of Columbia

Mental health & safety

Arts-Based Intervention for Mental Health Equity in Georgia

Wellstar Health System, Georgia

JustConnect: Holistic Healing & Addiction Medicine Linkage for Justice-Impacted Individuals

University of California, Los Angeles, California

Physician-Led Firearm Death Review Team to Advance Community Health and Health Equity

Trinity Health Muskegon, Michigan

Witnessing-Based ECHO: Testimony-Driven Training to Prevent MOUD Discontinuation During Insurance Disruption

Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences, Oklahoma

Screening & risk reduction

AI Risk Stratification to Support Community Health Worker Service Intensity for Children Hospitalized With Asthma

Children's Hospital at Montefiore Einstein, New York

Enhancing Breast Cancer Screening in Columbia County, WI

University of Wisconsin-Madison, Wisconsin

Expanding Cervical Cancer Screening Access Through HPV Self-Sampling in the Community: A Patient-Centered, Equity-Driven Approach

Thomas Jefferson University / Jefferson Health, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania