Prevention Forward
California Department of Public Health
Overview
Funded by a five-year CDC grant, the platform delivers cultural humility training, health equity resources, and chronic disease prevention tools to healthcare professionals and communities statewide in both English and Spanish. AR+D led strategy, design, development, and content production across the full platform.
The Challenge
CDPH needed a scalable digital infrastructure to deliver chronic disease prevention programming and health equity resources to diverse healthcare professionals across California. Existing tools were fragmented, English-only, and not designed for frontline health workers in underserved communities.
Our Approach
We conducted audience research with healthcare professionals and community health workers, designed a bilingual content architecture, and built the platform from the ground up. Our team integrated CDC's National Diabetes Prevention Program framework and developed original health equity policy templates and training resources.
Results
- Multi-language platform (English and Spanish) serving healthcare professionals across California
- Health equity policy templates and cultural humility best practices published
- Webinar series on diabetes prevention and heart health delivered
- Heart disease and diabetes factsheets distributed statewide
- Integration with CDC's National Diabetes Prevention Program
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