Strengthening and Sustaining Public Health Partnerships 

Description: Are you trying to get more impact, capacity, or clarity from a partnership that isn’t quite delivering? Do you need more from a collaborative partner?

In today’s public health environment, effective partnerships are essential to advance programs, sustain initiatives, and meaningfully engage communities most affected by health inequities. This interactive workshop introduced the Collaboration Continuum as a practical framework to assess, strengthen, and adapt collaborative relationships to better support program goals and population health outcomes. Presenters highlighted strategies for initiating, managing, maintaining, and recalibrating partnerships as needs, contexts, and capacity change.

The breakout activity worksheet includes discussion-based activities to assess a real‑world partnership and identify concrete strategies to move it to a more effective and sustainable level.