Whole-System Trust
Trust operates within a complex system made up of individuals, communities, institutions, information sources, and cultural factors. Building trust across science, medicine, and public health requires a coordinated and integrated approach across domains.
Featured Activities
Building Trust in Health Science Through Community Partnership and Lived Experience
This Action Collaborative 
brings together community members, researchers, and institutions to strengthen public confidence in health science. By making research more open, collaborative, and responsive to the people it serves, the initiative explores how to restore trust and close the gap between scientific institutions and the broader public. Through genuine community partnership, public education, and thoughtful data practices, the Collaborative aims to make science better serve the people behind the data and support the health of all.
Program Webpage | Contact: Amy Gyau-Moyer
Trust & Engagement Action Collaborative
As one of four Action Collaboratives within the NAM Leadership Consortium, this program identifies and advances evidence-based strategies to promote the trust and engagement necessary to understand and achieve health and health care goals. Building trust and facilitating meaningful engagement is essential to success in care that improves outcomes, drives systems change, and enhances efforts toward health system effectiveness, affordability, equity, and continuous learning.
Program Webpage | Contact: Aanal Trivedi
Assessing Meaningful Community Engagement
Meaningful community engagement requires working collaboratively with people who share similar situations, concerns, or challenges. It often requires decision makers to defer to communities and share power. These are necessary elements for sustainable change that improves health and well-being and leads to equitable transformation. This effort provides resources to measure whether engagement is meaningful and impactful to a range of audiences.
Program Webpage | Contact: Aanal Trivedi
Health in the Headlines
This event series investigates high-profile health issues from a scientific viewpoint, while creating space for respectful debate among a diverse set of experts. Each discussion explores what is known, what is unknown, and why disagreements can occur, even among scientists. The approach is designed to illuminate how scientific consensus is built, how uncertainty is communicated, and how values inevitably influence the interpretation and application of science and evidence.
Program Webpage | Contact: Laura DeStefano
