Having held many positions across the health care ecosystem, Lisa Fitzpatrick, Aspen Health Innovators Fellow, saw a pervasive problem impacting health outcomes and health care costs: health literacy.

The U.S. has recorded more than 140,000 deaths from COVID-19. The numbers show that Black and brown people are up to 3.5 times more likely to die of the virus than white people.

The Aspen Global Innovators Group in partnership with the Aetna Foundation launched the first cohort of the Healthy Communities Fellowship in September 2018 to amplify the voices of community leaders addressing.