Health Design Lab

Be part of the launch of the JeffSolves 2026 Summer Sprint Challenge: a 6-week community effort focused on creating innovative solutions that help protect access to healthcare, food support, and benefits across our region.

🗓 Tuesday, June 16
🕠 5:30–7:00 PM ET
📍 Jefferson Alumni Hall, 1020 Locust St., Philadelphia
💻 Virtual attendance available

Whether you’re a student, professional, advocate, or simply someone who wants to make a difference, you’re invited. No prior experience needed.

Join us to learn about the challenges facing our communities, connect with others who are passionate about impact, and discover how you can contribute.

🔗 RSVP via the link in our bio
🔗 Learn more at healthaccessphilly.com

The final Health Access Philly conversation closed out at Bartram’s Garden last week, with Maitreyi Roy on how community can serve as health infrastructure. 🌱

There are 3 things we are carrying into the work ahead:

1. Green space is public health infrastructure.
Green space belongs in the same category as clean water, reliable transit, and working streetlights. Not an amenity, not a luxury, not a perk for the neighborhoods that can fund it. Infrastructure.

2. Sankofa Community Farm is helping people build a new relationship with healthy food and land.
Sankofa Community Farm grows about 15,000 pounds of food a year for the surrounding neighborhood and just launched Pennsylvania’s first City Farmer Apprentice program.

3. Trust is built slowly, and it is never finished.
Maitreyi drew a sharp line between outreach and engagement. Outreach is telling people you exist. Engagement is building a relationship, and that work, in her words, is ongoing.

Next: the JeffSolves Summer Sprint Challenge kicks off June 16. 🚀
Five weeks, hybrid format. Teams will design and build tools that help eligible Pennsylvanians keep their health and food benefits as HR-1 takes effect. No experience required. Individuals are welcome and will be matched into teams at kickoff.

Details and interest form at healthaccessphilly.com

Join us this Thursday at Bartram’s Garden to hear from Executive Director Maitreyi Roy on how the garden strives to build healthier communities!