The Kraft Center for Community Health at Mass General Brigham is focused on leading innovation in community health. Below examples of Kraft Center programming to forward this goal:
Community Care in Reach® Mobile Health Initiative:
Community Care in Reach® is an innovative mobile health program that brings together partners in preventive care, addiction services, and harm reduction to serve individuals not well-connected to health care, experiencing homelessness and/or battling addiction.
Using an innovative partnership model, Community Care in Reach combats the opioid epidemic with accessible, on-demand care. Mobile teams consist of experienced staff from community partners providing a range of services and connecting patients to community health centers, treatment programs, or specialty care.
Driving Equity and Maternal Health (DREAMH):
The Driving Equity and Maternal Health (DREAMH) Initiative, developed by The Kraft Center and Mass General Brigham, takes a comprehensive approach to addressing maternal health disparities. Through various strategies including mobile clinical care and doula access, the initiative aims to expand access to maternal health care and related services in surrounding communities.
In the communities where The Kraft Center focuses its work, there are significant cancer-related inequities in diagnosis, treatment and mortality, among traditionally marginalized populations including: those who are homeless, have a mental illness, live in poverty or belong to a racial or ethnic minority. The significance of these inequities creates an urgency to find new, out-of-the-box solutions. Stemming from its successful Implementation Science Center for Cancer Control Equity (ISCCCE), The Kraft Center, in partnership with Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers, established the Massachusetts Center for Advancing Cancer Control Engaged Research Through Transformative Solutions (Mass ACCERT) in 2024 with a grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to continue facilitating learning communities and supporting community health centers in implementation science that improves cancer prevention and control.
Building upon the network of The Kraft Center alumni established during The Center’s first five years, The Kraft Center sponsors internship opportunities for local students who are interested in pursuing jobs in the field of community health, continuing the proud tradition of cultivating future community health leaders. Be on the lookout for internship opportunities at The Kraft Center on the Mass General Careers page.