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Factor Health partners with trusted non-profit, community-based, and for-profit organizations, many social service oriented, that are supporting real life health in their communities. In general, we use a process to identify the best partners who can drive novel programs in health. If you are in a city that we’re not in yet, get in touch. Wherever you are, we want to hear from you.


Current Provider Partners:

Meals on Wheels Central Texas, one of the largest meal-delivery organizations in the state, seeks to nourish and enrich the lives of the homebound and other people in need through programs that promote dignity and independent living.

 

Boys & Girls Club of the Austin Area is a youth development agency devoted to providing hope and opportunity to all kids, especially those who need it most, by providing the opportunity to belong, to succeed, to serve their communities and to share their voice with the world.

Established in 1934, VNA is a nonprofit organization that helps elderly neighbors and loved ones maintain their independence by providing the services that allow them to age where they are happiest and most comfortable – at home.

Founded in 2009, DC Greens believes that healthy food is a basic human right and works to advance food justice and health equity in the nation’s capital. By centering communities impacted by food insecurity, DC Greens increases food access and advanced food policy to create long term food systems change.


We partner with organizations that:

  • Deeply understand the community they serve
  • Have core verifiable strengths
  • Have an interest in becoming reimbursed for the value they provide
  • Are open to the changes in their operations that getting more efficient in delivering evidence-based results will mean to them

Sound like you? Get in touch.

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  • May 15, 2024 – Mini Kahlon, PhD, presented an abstract titled “Effect of a Layperson-Delivered Empathy-Focused Telephone Program on Glycemic Management for FQHC Patients With Unmanaged Diabetes: A Randomized Trial,” co-authored with Nazan Aksan, PhD, at the 2024 Society for General Internal Medicine (SGIM) Annual Meeting.
  • Mar 21, 2024 – Mini Kahlon, PhD, published an editorial, Understanding and Intervening in Nutrition-Related Health Disparities, Advances in Nutrition.
  • Dec 8, 2023 – Mini Kahlon speaks on Food as Medicine at the 2023 Annual Texas NMDoH Consortium Conference: Advancing Research, Policy and Practice
  • Oct 10, 2023 – Factor Health Founder, Mini Kahlon, PhD, speaks at  HLTH 2023 on “The Benefits of Being Neighborly“
  • Oct 6, 2023 – ‘Listening for Health’ panel at 2023 Healthier Texas Summit featuring Factor Health team. Agenda | Register
  • July 25, 2023 – Factor Health receives a $300,000 Empowering Health grant from UnitedHealthcare 
  • June 8, 2023 – Virtual Event: Nutrition Incentive Hub’s National Convening virtual panel, Food Meets Medicine: What We Need to Connect Nutrition Security with Healthcare | Register Now
  • June 7, 2023 – Webinar: Food Is Medicine: Program Designs and Strategies in Texas | Register Now 
  • June 6, 2023 – Whitepaper release: Scaling the Impact of Food on Health: Cross-Sectoral Research Opportunities
  • Apr 12, 2023 – Psychiatry Online: Effect of a Layperson-Delivered Telephone Program for People With Depressive Symptoms
  • Mar 8, 2023 – The Other 80 podcast: Building Health Ecosystems with Dr. Mini Kahlon 
  • Feb 15, 2023 – Stat: How ‘empathetic engagement’ can increase access to mental health care
  • Jan 2, 2023 – The New York Times: The 7-Day Happiness Challenge – Day 2: The Secret Power of the 8-Minute Phone Call. 
  • Oct 25, 2022 – Axios Finish Line: Lonely America
  • Sep 15, 2022 – Dell Med Feature Story: A Prescription for Broccoli 
  • July 2022 – El Mundo: Los Niños Deben Comer Más Vegetales/Children Should Eat More Vegetables. 
  • June 2022 – Austin American Statesman: Dell Medical School study: Kids will eat vegetables if they are available.
  • May 2022 -Christensen Institute White Paper: You Are What You Treat. Profiles Factor Health as an innovative business model.
  • May 2022 – Release: Easy, Flexible Access to Produce, Resources Boosts Healthy Eating for Central Texas Kids.  JAMA Network Open Paper.
  • Dec 2021 – The Clayton Christensen Institute: To improve individual lives, a top-down approach won’t work
  • Nov 2021 – Health Affairs Lunch & Learn: The future of health system transformation with Mini Kahlon | Register now
  • May 2021 – AMA | Reflection on results of trial assessing the impact of layperson calls on mental health | Video | Article
  • Spring 2021 – Texas Standard  |  CNN  |  Forbes  | Healthline  |  KXAN  | Scientific American: Empathetic phone calls from laypersons reduce loneliness, depression in older adults
  • Mar 8, 2021 – Scripps National News: Sunshine Calls help improve mood and health
  • Feb 23, 2021 – JAMA Psychiatry: Effect of layperson-delivered, empathy-focused program of telephone calls on loneliness, depression, and anxiety among adults during the COVID-19 pandemic: A randomized clinical trial

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