2026 Common Health Challenge
Regional Action Networks: Catalyzing Collaboration Across Communities
The 2026 Common Health Challenge highlights Regional Action Networks – collaborations between health care and public health organizations working across geographic borders and sectors to tackle shared health priorities, improving outcomes for patients and communities.
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Catalyst Awards
Advance, scale, and strengthen Regional Action Networks
Regional Action Networks offer a model for how public health, health care, and other partners can work together. Instead of only collaborating during emergencies, these networks allow for sustained partnership to tackle challenges like chronic disease reduction and data sharing.
The 2026 Challenge aims to advance, strengthen, and scale regional networks built on strong health care - public health partnerships and adapted from proven models. Through the 2026 Challenge, Regional Action Networks will advance four key pillars.
Take the Challenge
Take the Challenge by committing your organization to focus on building or strengthening Regional Action Networks and cross-sector partnerships.
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The Community of Practice brings together organizations seeking a deeper level of shared learning, collaboration, and accountability. This is intended for Regional Action Networks or supporting organizations that are interested in proactively engaging beyond the core Challenge activities.
Participation in the Community of Practice includes:
- Quarterly interactive sessions, featuring guest speakers and facilitated discussion.
- Access to an online forum for tools, resources, and conversation among CoP members.
- An expectation of active engagement, including participating in discussions and sessions, sharing insights, and contributing resources when possible.
You can join the Community of Practice by signing up to take the Challenge.
2025 ChallengeCommon Health Challenge Catalyst Awards
The Catalyst Awards fund vanguard organizations that demonstrate a strong capacity to advance the Common Health Challenge in ways that strengthen partnership between health care and public health in their communities. Awardees will contribute to a nationwide movement aimed at bridging the health care and public health sectors.
This year’s Catalyst Awardees are:
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Challenge FAQ
- The Common Health Coalition is a first-of-its-kind collaboration spanning clinician groups, health departments, hospitals, payers, and community organizations. By uniting leaders who rarely share the same table, we turn alignment into action at a scale no single sector can reach alone and transform relationships into results for people and communities.
- Founded in 2023 by the Alliance of Community Health Plans, AHIP, the American Hospital Association, the American Medical Association, and Kaiser Permanente, the Coalition now represents more than 400 members in nearly every state and territory in the country.
Common Health Challenge
The Common Health Challenge is an annual call-to-action for Coalition members and partners to rally around a critical cross-sector health issue for which the solution relies on improved partnership between health care and public health.
Some examples of challenge activities include:
- Amplifying an existing regional collaborative or backbone organization
- Sharing information internally about regional public health-health care coordination efforts to build buy-in and clarify your organization's potential role in a RAN
- Meeting with at least one organization from a different sector to explore shared priorities
- Participating in a regionally focused cross-sector roundtable or CoP
- Sharing lessons learned from past or current data-sharing efforts
- Identifying one dataset that could be shared with a regional data initiative in the future
- Conducting a basic self-assessment of your organization's data-sharing readiness
- Piloting simple feedback loops to elevate frontline and community insights
We are excited to spotlight your work in our efforts to demonstrate how organizations are strengthening partnerships across regions. We may reach out requesting more information for promotional purposes, but in the meantime, if your organization is already advancing this type of work, please share publicly-available links or other resources so we can learn more about what you're up to!
Complete the following form to take the Challenge today.