HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY IMPACT INITIATIVE
Start the Conversation
Every engagement begins with understanding the system you are working within.
WELLUMIINATE™ works with healthcare institutions, research partners, public health bodies, and aligned organizations seeking to strengthen how care is delivered, navigated, trusted, and known. An initial conversation helps the Institute understand your context, the questions you are holding, and the pathway that fits.
COMMON STARTING POINTS
Conversations often begin with one of three questions.
Each maps to a focus area of the WELLUMIINATE Model. Many organizations find that the question they arrive with connects to the other two.
HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONAL WELL-BEING
How can we understand the conditions behind sustained pressure on our care workforce?
PATIENT ADVOCACY & HEALTH LITERACY
How can patients and families participate more fully in decisions about their care?
INCLUSIVE MEDICAL RESEARCH PARTICIPATION
How can our research better reflect the communities it is intended to serve?
PATHWAY 01
Public Benefit Learning
Independent access to the initiative's evidence, resources, and public tools.
WHO IT SERVES
Individuals, families, community groups, and care organizations seeking a deeper understanding of professional well-being, patient advocacy, health literacy, and inclusive participation in medical research.
WHAT IT INVOLVES
Health psychology resources, research translations, and public learning materials available through the WELLUMIINATE Civic Resource Hub. No conversation is required to begin.
SUITED TO
Understanding the evidence behind a focus area
Sharing public learning materials with a community
Building health literacy at your own pace
WHO IT SERVES
Healthcare institutions, research partners, public health bodies, and community organizations with a defined need or question they want to examine in their own context.
WHAT IT INVOLVES
Commissioned work applying health psychology to the conditions that shape care, including workforce well-being, health literacy, patient advocacy, trust, and inclusive participation. Scope is shaped through an initial conversation.
SUITED TO
Addressing the conditions affecting a care workforce
Strengthening how an organization communicates with patients
Broadening who takes part in a research program
PATHWAY 02
Partnered Programs
Commissioned support shaped around an organization's context, priorities, and questions.
PATHWAY 03
Strategic Institutional Collaboration
Institutional collaboration through joint research, programming, and public engagement.
WHO IT SERVES
Institutions seeking sustained collaboration across care, communities, and health knowledge, often working across more than one focus area at once.
WHAT IT INVOLVES
Joint research, public programs, arts-based interventions, and community initiatives that extend whole-system health psychology, broaden participation, and strengthen trust in health and care.
SUITED TO
Co-developing research or public programming
Working across the relationships among all three focus areas
Building a long-term institutional partnership
WHAT TO EXPECT
From first inquiry to a defined pathway.
Every conversation follows the same sequence, whichever pathway it leads to.
STEP ONE
Share your context
Complete a short inquiry describing your organization, the focus areas of interest, and the questions you are exploring.
STEP TWO
An exploratory conversation
The Institute follows up within 7 business days to arrange an initial conversation, held online and scheduled in Eastern Time.
STEP THREE
A recommended pathway
The Institute recommends a pathway, whether public benefit learning, a partnered program, or strategic institutional collaboration, with proposed scope and next steps.
Tell us where you are starting.
The inquiry takes a few minutes and asks about your organization, the focus areas of interest, and the questions you are holding. Please do not include personal health information.
WELLUMIINATE™ applies health psychology as a lens on the people, systems, and knowledge that shape care. The initiative does not provide clinical, diagnostic, or treatment services. Individuals seeking care or medical advice should contact a qualified healthcare provider.