Securing Healthcare Investment Through Community-Driven Data

Monday, October 6, 2025

4:00 PM - 5:15 PM ET

Location: Federal B

Speaker(s)

Colleen Flynn

Co-Executive Director
Build Healthy Places Networks
Lea Whitehurst-Gibson

Founder & Executive Director
Virginia Community Voice
Eddy Moratin

President
Lift Orlando
Jennifer Fassbender

Program Director, Social Determinants of Health
Reinvestment Fund

This interactive session provides community developers with practical tools to transform residents' lived experience and local priorities into data that's compelling to healthcare systems and insurers. Participants will learn how to partner with residents to collect and analyze data — and how to use data to create powerful narratives that drive local investments that address the root causes of health disparities.

Community developers will share real-world examples of how community-driven data supported investments in housing, wellness infrastructure, early learning, and healing spaces. Attendees will gain insights about how storytelling can rebalance power dynamics and build more equitable healthcare partnerships. The session draws on the Build Healthy Places Network and Verge Impact Partners' guide, Community-Driven Data and Evaluation Strategies to Transform Power and Place.