Health Advancement
ActivatedPrevention, equity, and clinical partnership where trust already lives.
The human gap
Preventable disease still tracks zip code and circumstance more reliably than biology. The most stubborn failure is the screen-to-treatment gap — people learn they are at risk but never reach care. Trusted relationships, navigation, and clinical follow-through close that gap, and they are underfunded precisely where they would matter most.
Health that reaches people where trust already lives — and follows all the way through to care.
The connected response
Work where trust already lives — in trusted community institutions — and add what an institute uniquely provides: clinical leadership, research rigor, and scalable technology. IHA builds on, rather than competes with, established community and faith-based health initiatives. The model is designed to travel: proven locally, then adapted in other communities and internationally.
Accountable clinical leadership
The Health Advancement Institute pairs community trust with physician leadership and clearly bounded demonstrations.
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Founding Chief Medical Officer & Director
Dr. Griffith is helping shape IHA’s health strategy and first demonstration program. A board-certified physician in Internal Medicine and Lifestyle Medicine with decades of clinical experience, she brings clinical judgment to the institute’s program design and partnership development.
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Senior Strategic Advisor & Board Member
A senior New York City healthcare leader with 35+ years directing large hospital systems, Dr. Silber brings deep institutional relationships across academic medicine, hospital leadership, and impact-aligned capital. His work spans strategic partnerships, institutional relationships, and the pipeline of opportunities advancing IHA’s broader portfolio — from clinical training pathways and provider partnerships to the education, workforce, and venture work that scales our impact domestically and across the Global South.
Where the work concentrates
Catching disease before it starts — where the leverage is highest and the system invests least.
Closing the gap between who learns they are at risk and who actually reaches care.
Physician-led credibility added to the community institutions people already trust.
Care delivered where life happens — through churches, community organizations, and trusted navigators.
Work in motion
Visible work shows activity under this pillar. It does not automatically establish an institute-level outcome.
Operated by IHA
A provider-facing care-operations platform for Medicare programs, demonstrated with synthetic data and built around human review, accountable documentation, and explicit pilot gates.
Operated by IHA
A trusted-navigator health companion — avatar-led and AI-augmented — that walks beside someone for 360 days to close the screen-to-treatment gap.
Operated by Uplift Communities
Government-funded healthcare career training with Uplift Communities and Kingsborough Community College, funded by NYC DYCD.
Operated by IHA
Workforce training, systems research, and emerging-market deployment — from Brooklyn to Nairobi.
Evidence boundary
The next stage needs people, not spectators.
