Research Publications, Presentations, and Reports

Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)

National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC)

  • Community Health Center Chartbook 2021: The Community Health Center Chartbook uses graphics and charts to describe who health centers serve, how health centers meet their communities’ needs, health center growth and remaining challenges, and how health centers make an impact.

  • Health Centers’ Challenges with Vaccine Deployment in the First Three Months.  This new publication details health centers’ initial challenges with vaccine deployment and discusses possible challenges in the months to come.

  • Health Center Staff and Patient Growth Over the Past Decade:  This infographic presents health centers’ staff and patient growth from 2010-2019 for mental health, vision, dental, substance abuse and medical services.

  • Health Centers Responding to COVID-19: 1 Year Review: This infographic presents health centers’ response to COVID-19 over the past year, from April 2020 to April 2021, and presents helpful information from this time period such as the number of patients tested and vaccinated, and how PPE supplies, testing result time and health center closures have changed over time.

  • Toolkit to Build Community-Academic Research Partnerships at Community Health Centers: This modulized toolkit provides researchers with the information they need to understand how the health center model can support their research initiatives and also how their unique populations and settings necessitate particular partnerships models.  The following modules in this toolkit provide a general overview of health centers, health center research experience, expectations and needs of health centers as research partners, and tips for engaging and establishing a research partnership.

    World Health Organization

  • Decade of Health Ageing 2020-2030: This document describes the plan for a Decade of Healthy Ageing 2020–2030, which will consist of 10 years of concerted, catalytic, sustained collaboration. Older people themselves will be at the centre of this plan, which will bring together governments, civil society, international agencies, professionals, academia, the media and the private sector to improve the lives of older people, their families and their communities.