The Model

The new Live Well Center for Innovation and Leadership adapts the national Academic Health Department model, which is a formal affiliation of a local public health department and an academic institution to enhance such things as training, research, service and workforce development, for the benefit of both organizations and the community as whole. Because the County’s Health and Human Services Agency (HHSA) is an integrated health, housing, and human services department, this partnership will expand beyond the traditional public health focus to include collaboration across the SDSU College of Health and Human Services (CHHS) and will align with the shared Live Well San Diego vision of a healthy, safe and thriving region.