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We Develop Leaders
Who Champion Communities
to Create a Healthier World

Partners for Better Health drives the Randall Lewis Health & Policy Fellowship —
Helping young health professionals change the world one community at a time.

Advancing Health Through Fostering
Leadership.

Partners for Better Health Stewards the
Randall Lewis Health & Policy Fellowship.

We are a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) dedicated to preparing new leaders with real-world experience, so they are ready to solve disparities and improve community healthcare throughout the Inland Empire, Southern California, and beyond.

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Partnering for a Healthier Future

The people of each community are at the heart of our work. Health care and community wellness
is a complex system that requires input from many different perspectives in order to be effective.

Our fellows work to understand and interpret the needs of a community. We use this
information to come up with solutions that are developed and implemented by drawing from
our partnerships and resources found within our ever-growing network.

Businesses

Cities

Health Care Systems

Organizations

Students

Universities

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Impact Through Fellowship

Are you a health care graduate who is passionate about improving the lives of people in your community? The Randall Lewis Health & Policy Fellowship is an intern program designed to develop and equip graduate students in health-related fields with the skills necessary for influencing public policy, as well as driving change, at a regional level.

Join our Fellowship — Become a part of our ever-growing Fellowship Alumni Network. Together, we’ll lead healthy community efforts, city by city to embrace infrastructure that supports healthier lifestyles.

Congratulations to Jorge Barahona!

Jorge Barahona, a Master of Public Health student from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles on being selected as the 2021-2022 Nico Linesch Legacy Fund Scholar.

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Expanding the PBH Ecosystem

At PBH, we are building a living ecosystem of partnerships, ideas, and communities committed to advancing health, well-being, and wholeness. Together, we integrate Hold.Health and the Leading Causes Initiative (LCL) into our broader vision — creating a network devoted to what generates and sustains life.

Hold.Health

Hold.Health is a network of networks that bring forward an innovative approach to reimagining health through connection, resilience, and empowerment. By cultivating safe and supportive spaces, it strengthens individuals and communities in facing what hurts, harms, or diminishes health. Integrated into the PBH ecosystem, Hold.Health becomes a vital channel for linking practice with purpose — where the intersection of faith, health, and community come together.

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Leading Causes of Life Initiative (LCL-I)

Welcome to the LCL Initiative! Partnering with PBH, it is a loose international collaboration of people across diverse disciplines and borders, experiences and practice, contextual and conjunctural challenges. We seek to connect people, networks, and networks of networks who share a vision, in the face of what hurts, harms, damages or destroys us, of the world motivated by a passion for life — the life of all and of the whole. Invoking both our spiritual and material capacities, driven by generosity and humility, our work aims at all that is generative of life. Embracing complexity, we create open spaces for innovative ideas to flourish in rethinking and reshaping all we do in every sphere of social life to advance this shared vision.

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Together in the PBH Ecosystem

By bringing Hold.Health and the Leading Causes of Life Initiative into the PBH ecosystem, we weave together diverse strengths and commitments. Our collective work is to:

Advance a world motivated not by what divides, but by a shared passion for life.
Generate ideas and practices that foster flourishing in the face of complexity.

Connect people and networks in common cause.
Reimagine what health means at every level — individual, community, systemic.

This integration strengthens PBH’s role as a catalyst for change, creating open, generative spaces where innovation and collaboration can thrive — advancing a vision of health and life for all.

Congratulations to the 2025
Policy & Innovation Challenge Winners!

Meet the changemakers driving bold solutions and Building a Sustainable, Equitable,
and Smart Future Policy and Innovation Challenge

Colleen Corrigan, MPH

USC, Fellowship Alumni 2022

Support Team:

Whitney Francis, Jin Zhang

Zachary D. Travis, PhD, MPH

CBU, Fellowship Alumni 2021

Support Team:

Kevin Alvillar

Kriseira Lamas Krauletz

Cal State LA, Fellowship Alumni 2023

Support Team:

Calleshia Gilliam, Jaimie Le

Give to Support Our Fellows

Help us form a network of solution-based leaders for the future.

Give to support our fellows’ development and projects. All contributions go directly to them
so they can learn, grow and impact the well-being of society.

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Cities. Universities. Agencies.

Join us in building healthier cities that nurture future generations, where all people can thrive!

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Impact We’re Making

“The Randall Lewis Health & Policy Fellowship has been an outstanding experience for University of La Verne students. Our MHA and MPA students have greatly benefitted from the field site experiences, the hands-on mentoring and training, and the ample networking opportunities. The students’ level of professionalism and confidence are wonderfully enhanced giving them a step ahead of others in the employment marketplace. The experience they go through nicely augments our graduate curriculum letting them apply their academic training to practice in the real world. This has been an incredible opportunity for our students and our programs.”

Keith Schildt, PhD
Director MHA Program
College of Health & Community Well-Being
University of La Verne
“It has been an absolute pleasure working with The Randall Lewis Health & Policy Fellowship program.
The fellows come to us with such a strong knowledge base that you can put them to work on day one.
The benefit to our organization is invaluable and I’m confident the fellows that have come through our site are job market-ready when they complete their fellowship.”

Roldan Aguilar
Executive Director, Strategic Operations
San Antonio Regional Hospital
Upland, CA
“The Randall Lewis Health & Policy Fellowship has provided me with the opportunity to practice public health, network with public health colleagues, and begin to shape a career in public health. From the beginning as a fellow, I was given the space to express my aspirations in public health and encouraged to explore areas of data collection and community engagement during my time with the City of Rialto. There I was afforded the opportunity to see public health first-hand in the setting of local government — writing grants, teaching a nutrition education class for the senior population, and promoting improved lifestyle behavior change as a preventive strategy for long-term health.”

Jonquile Williams, MPH
There is more to life than increasing its speed
-Gandhi-
“The City of Rialto is extremely grateful for the Randall Lewis Health & Policy Fellowship. They have provided us with amazing students throughout the last decade. Rialto has greatly enhanced its ability to provide superior service to the community and surrounding areas with help from their fellows. We appreciate their fellows’ initiative and their ongoing. support. Thank you.”

Cristian Gutierrez
Senior Office Specialist City Clerk’s Office, CITY OF RIALTO
“The Randall Lewis Health & Policy Fellowship has been an outstanding experience for University of La Verne students. Over the years, our MHA and MPA students have greatly benefitted from the field site experiences, the hands-on mentoring and training, and the ample networking opportunities. The students’ level of professionalism and confidence are wonderfully enhanced giving them a step ahead of others in the employment marketplace. The experience they go through also nicely augments our graduate curriculum letting them apply their academic training to practice in the real world. This has been an incredible opportunity for our students and our programs.”

Keith Schildt, PhD
Director MHA Program
College of Health & Community Well-Being
University of La Verne
My experience with the RLHPF, which matched me to the Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG), gave me the opportunity to transform data and information into program and policy recommendations for public health and environmental justice leaders. Prior to the fellowship program, I had little experience with applying health policy in a real-world setting, so the opportunity was incredibly rewarding and worthwhile for me. My work at SCAG played an enormous role in helping me obtain my current position as a Health Program Analyst II with the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health because I demonstrated my ability to transform existing research and data into meaningful recommendations for city and community leaders to reference and utilize when implementing interventional programs for their local jurisdictions. One of the most important lessons I learned from this fellowship is that any kind of work you do in the public health field is interconnected, and I’m grateful that the RLHPF encouraged me to explore different opportunities to enhance and expand my skills.

Jane Lam, MPH
RLHPF Alumni, 2020