Alliance for Community Engagement – Partnership for Action Toward Health

The Alliance for Community Engagement – Partnership for Action Toward Health (ACE-PATH) supports community resilience by developing and testing interventions to address the health impacts of cumulative environmental exposures and extreme weather. Using a community-engaged research approach, ACE-PATH research teams (academic and community partners) work in partnership to implement strategies and solutions in areas facing the health effects of local community health challenges.

There are four ACE-PATH objectives:

1. Identify, develop, and test effective community-engaged strategies to improve the adoption and use of specific treatments or tools to respond to community health challenges.
2. Support community-engaged research to enhance the adoption, integration, and sustainment of interventions addressing the impacts of the environment on local health outcomes, risk factors, diseases and conditions.
3. Build trust and strong partnerships with all interested parties to exchange knowledge and encourage implementation of promising practices to strengthen and improve community health.
4. Inform strategies to reduce the effects of prioritized local health stressors in U.S. communities.