For us, "Health Justice" isn’t a buzzword;
it’s what we do.
Collectively Determined exists to advance health justice for marginalized populations and the people who serve them. We do this by making the expertise our partners need accessible, actionable, and scalable.
We partner with leaders to bring the cutting edge of research to their organizations and initiatives–and make sure that
their
cutting-edge work gets promoted back out into the world.
Collectively Determined plans, designs, and executes high quality initiatives with our partners that focus on social determinants of health, health integration, and equity.
We’re dedicated to making sure your health equity work can go the distance–this means focusing on helping you build–and fund–lasting organizational change.
In a world that celebrates biomedical innovation and ignores the innovative work and impact accomplished by community-focused organizations, too much work goes unrecognized and unfunded because it doesn’t fit into traditional narratives. Collectively Determined works to make sure social justice work gets funded, implemented, and scaled–to last.
We have experience leading health and social care integration strategy, innovation, quality improvement, intersectoral collaborations, equity & inclusion initiatives, and participatory and liberatory design approaches.
About Griffin...
From Public Schools and Pell Grants to a Harvard Doctorate…
Griffin Jones, DrPH, MPP, (he, him, his) is the founder and Principal of Collectively Determined LLC.
Dr. Jones has over 15 years of leadership in national, state, and local health innovation. He has served in leadership and management positions at private startups, nonprofit payer, and in government. Throughout, Dr. Jones has committed his career to scaling innovations aimed at improving the health of marginalized populations. Immediately prior to receiving his doctorate at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Dr. Jones served as the Interim Director of Strategic Investment at the Massachusetts Health Policy Commission (HPC), an innovative, first-in-the-nation state health watchdog agency, where he designed and led programs targeting the Commonwealth’s most intractable health care cost challenges.
While at Harvard, Dr. Jones supported local and national initiatives focused on health equity and racial justice. Dr. Jones’ doctoral research, a Community-Based Participatory Research Project on the access to justice needs of reproductive care teams, was awarded fellowships from the Harvard FXB Center for Health and Human Rights through their Structural Racism Initiative for Diversity with Equity (STRIDE) program, the Law, Education, and Justice Initiative at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute, and the Rose Service Learning Fellowship at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
Originally from Portland, Maine, Dr. Jones also holds a BA in International Relations from The College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, and a Masters in Public Policy and Management and a Certificate of Nonprofit Financial Management from the University of Southern Maine. He lives with his wife and three young children in Arlington, MA, and enjoys cross-country skiing, traveling, and cooking with his kids.