Health Design Lab

06/09/2026

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

05/29/2026

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

05/19/2026

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

04/09/2026