Data Across Sectors for Health (DASH) is a national initiative that elevates models, principles, and practices that support communities sharing data across sectors to achieve health equity. We support practitioners by providing financial support and technical assistance, sharing resources, surveying the field, supporting peer learning, and building networks.

We consider the social, political, economic, and historical context of information systems to ensure that no inequities remain hidden from sight. This systems approach has led us to center collaboration, the inclusion of people with lived experience, peer learning, asset framing, and policy-level impact as core values.

DASH is co-led by the Illinois Public Health Institute and the Michigan Public Health Institute. The two institutes make up the DASH Program Office, which is funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. (The views expressed here do not necessarily reflect the views of the Foundation.)