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Working Toward a Future Where Everyone Thrives

As early as 1959, The Rippel Foundation’s first President, Julius A. Rippel, raised concerns about our unsustainable health care system. Specifically, he saw the need for new ways of thinking and acting to keep people healthy and health care affordable.

Achieving this aim will require major structural changes in the system that produces health and well-being. To figure out how to spark that change, in 2007 Rippel convened a group of extraordinary thinkers—those who would become ReThink Health’s pioneering founders. The group included some of the nation’s most respected health care leaders, as well as a diverse group of experts and change agents from the fields of economics, politics, business, community organizing, and energy.

Today, ReThink Health, Rippel flagship initiative, explores how to achieve equitable system change in real-world settings. ReThink Health works with national and regional stewards and innovators in health systems, philanthropy, business, government, communities, and coalitions to discover what it takes to design and execute transformative change that improves population health and supports thriving for everyone.

History of ReThink Health

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Learn more about our pioneers, and how their commitment to improving health and well-being for all led to the formation of the ReThink Health initiative.

Explore ReThink Health’s History Watch Video of ReThink Health's History
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Pulse Check on Shared Stewardship

The Pulse Check on Shared Stewardship for Thriving Together Across America is the first and only nationwide survey to examine the state of stewardship values, priorities, and practices. Findings reveal the extent to which individuals and organizations in pivotal positions are thinking and acting like stewards of an equitable, thriving future.
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Vital Conditions for Health and
Well-Being

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Vital conditions for health and well-being include a thriving natural world, basic needs for health and safety, humane housing, meaningful work and wealth, lifelong learning, reliable transportation, and, central to all of these, belonging and civic muscle. We need to invest in these conditions in order to create an equitable, thriving future for ourselves and for generations to come.

Rippel’s ReThink Health initiative first introduced the vital conditions framework through our Ventures project in 2017, with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. We have since refined it with input from thousands of contributors.

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ReThink Archive

Click below to explore a wealth of resources drawn from ReThink Health’s past work, that are available on ReThink Health’s former website.

Stewards' Resources Archive ReThinkers' Blog Archive

Other Resources for ReThinkers

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Nov 06 2024

A Call to Shared Stewardship

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Jul 31 2024

The Rippel Effect: Summer 2024

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Apr 15 2024

The Fulcrum: Rippel Highlights the Power of Belonging and Civic Muscle to Shape a Thriving Future

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Apr 03 2024

Health Affairs: Cultivating Vital Conditions for Perinatal Well-Being and A Sustained Commitment to Reproductive Justice

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Feb 28 2024

The Well of PBC: Interview with Rippel’s Anna Creegan Explores Stewardship Journey

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Feb 28 2024

Federal Times: Rippel Op-ed Outlines Actions to Implement the ELTRR

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Nov 08 2024

The Rippel Foundation Promotes Laila Hussain to Director, Communications and Influence

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Oct 29 2024

The Rippel Effect: Fall 2024

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Oct 15 2024

Lydia Nadeau Elected Vice Chair of Rippel Foundation Board of Trustees

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Apr 18 2024

The Rippel Effect: Spring 2024

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Mar 04 2024

Tara Oakman Joins Rippel as Senior Vice President, Strategic Initiatives

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Jan 31 2024

The Rippel Effect: Winter 2024

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Jan 29 2024

The Rippel Foundation Announces 2023 Year-End Grant Awards to Eight Community Organizations

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Jan 02 2024

Watch: The Rippel Foundation at 70, Part 2: The Evolution of ReThinking Health and Well-Being

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Dec 12 2023

Nonprofit Quarterly: Rippel President and CEO Becky Payne Writes About Health Equity

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Nov 30 2023

Dr. Carolyn Brooks Joins the Rippel Board of Trustees

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Nov 16 2023

Unsung Stewards Podcast: Stream Season 3 Now!

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Oct 31 2023

The Rippel Effect: Fall 2023

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Sep 24 2023

Three New ReThink Health Reports Evaluate Shared Stewardship in Health Systems, Regional Networks, and the Nation

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Sep 11 2023

Rippel’s Article in The Fulcrum Explores How Everyone Can Be a Steward

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Jul 31 2023

The Rippel Effect: Summer 2023

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Jul 26 2023

Dr. Anu Gupta Joins the Rippel Board of Trustees 

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Jul 26 2023

ReThink Health Receives System Dynamics Award

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Jul 21 2023

Rippel Supports Mental Health First Aid Training in Morris County

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Jul 07 2023

Rippel’s Newsweek Article Explores How Belonging and Civic Muscle Can Address the Black Maternal Health Crisis

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Jun 13 2023

Rippel’s NY Times Letter Highlights Importance of Vital Conditions for New Parents and Babies

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Jun 13 2023

North Sound Voices Podcast: Liz Baxter and Becky Payne Discuss the Vital Conditions for Health and Well-Being

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May 23 2023

HealthBEAT Podcast: Becoming Stewards of a Better Well-Being Society

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May 09 2023

The Rippel Effect: Spring 2023

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May 05 2023

Watch: The Rippel Foundation at 70, Part 1: Origins and Legacy

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May 05 2023

Listen: HIT Like a Girl Podcast features Becky Payne

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May 03 2023

Seeding Systems Change Through the Vital Conditions for Health and Well-Being

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Mar 22 2023

HealthBiz Podcast: Interview with Rippel’s President & CEO Becky Payne

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Jan 26 2023

The Rippel Effect: Winter 2023

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Nov 15 2022

New Federal Plan Presents Revolutionary Redesign of Government Efforts to Improve Americans’ Health and Well-Being

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Jun 25 2022

SCOTUS Decision to Overturn Roe v. Wade Will Exacerbate Existing Inequities that Undermine Health and Well-Being

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Apr 07 2022

Rippel Foundation Op-ed Published in Crain’s New York

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Feb 15 2022

Rippel’s New York Times Letter to the Editor Calls for System Change