About The HOPE Initiative
The HOPE Initiative is a new initiative led by National Collaborative for Health Equity, the Texas Health Institute, and the Virginia Commonwealth University’s Center on Society and Health with funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Contributing authors for this article areNational Collaborative for Health Equity (Brian Smedley, PhD; Jalisa Whitley, MPP; Naima Wong Croal, PhD, MPH)VCU Center on Society and Health (Heidi Schoomaker, MAEd;
Derek Chapman, PhD; Steven H. Woolf, MD, MPH)
