Community-based Initiatives

The following is a list of community-based initiatives in which CCE works collaboratively with community stakeholders to identify and understand current public health challenges and the affected populations. These partnerships create meaningful experiences for faculty, students, and community stakeholders to develop innovative approaches to tackling the most pressing public health issues.

Healthy Neighbors Partnership

In 2010, the Healthy Neighbors Partnership, was formed between Upstate Medical University, Syracuse Housing Authority External Icon, and the Pioneer Homes Tenant Association.

Invest Health

Invest Health is a new initiative that brings together diverse leaders from mid-sized U.S. cities across the nation to develop new strategies for increasing and leveraging private and public investments to accelerate improvements in neighborhoods facing the biggest barriers to better health.

Onondaga County Drug Taskforce

The Onondaga County Drug Task force consists of addiction specialists, public health professionals, law enforcement agents, physicians, treatment specialists, and a variety of community partners working together to combat the heroin and opioids epidemic.