Making Collaboration a Core Population Health Capability

Strong population health programs can still fall short when the clinical, behavioral health, and community-based organizations surrounding them lack the shared workflows, communication structures, and alignment needed to work effectively together. Purva Rawal, PhD, and Leigh Wilson-Hall, MSW, Senior Advisors at the Camden Coalition, join Coral Director Ashley Fitch to discuss the Community Ecosystem Alignment Tool, or CEAT, and how it helps organizations turn cross-sector collaboration into a more intentional and operational capability. Their conversation explores why fragmented ecosystems can undermine otherwise promising interventions, how CEAT helps partners identify and reduce friction, what implementation looks like in practice, and how stronger alignment can support better execution across maternal health, behavioral health, transitions of care, and integrated or value-based models.