Sharing data across state agencies and community-based organizations is critical for advancing health equity and addressing complex health challenges that involve multiple sectors. Insights from individuals with lived expertise provide valuable context to inform data-sharing efforts that is critical to improving health equity.

This practice report examines the nature and extent to which public health entities are sharing data across sectors in ways that are innovative and supportive of their organizational missions to promote community health equity and well-being.

The 2021 Community Information Exchange Summit, hosted by CIE San Diego, focused on the importance of an anti-racist practice and practitioners’ responsibility to their local communities. DASH program managers share their key takeaways.

In our own efforts at DASH to center community voice and expertise—and to make these types of partnerships more visible—we’ve invited community members with the lived and living experiences of poverty and related, social determinants of health to advise us, as we plan for our upcoming All In: Data for Community Health National Meeting (AINM).