The Health Center History Project

Join us in this 10-year effort to chronicle the rich and varied history of health centers across the nation. Using interactive web-based technology, the History Project will build a "virtual quilt" featuring photographs, oral and written histories, documents, and videos through multi-media displays accessible to all health centers, policymakers, students and others interested in community health. We hope to work with each health center to tell its unique story and to portray the history and evolution of the entire health center movement.

We have revamped the process that we are using to obtain information for the History Project. We have two forms that will serve as the basis for each health center's initial site. The Information Sheet is a form that we fill out based on publicly available information about each health center (usually taken from a health center’s website). The History Project Survey is a short six-question survey which will allow us provide more in-depth and customized information about each health center.

After we complete an Information Sheet, we will email the health center's Executive Director/CEO and ask that you review the Information Sheet for accuracy and make any necessary changes. In addition, we will include an electronic copy of the short survey for you to complete. Both of those documents will be returned to us and we will use that information to design the health center's portion of the History Project web page. Once the initial phase is complete we may seek to add more information and materials from each health center. If there is additional material that you would like to send us now (videos, documents, etc), just get in touch with us and we can see if we can include those items on your initial web page.

We are currently beginning the web site construction phase of the project. As soon as the design is complete we will begin uploading information about individual health centers. The sooner you provide us with information, the sooner you can be part of the Health Center History Project. Get involved now! You don't have to wait for us to contact you - you may download the Information Sheet and/or History Project Survey from the links here and send the completed information to the contacted listed on documents.

If you have any questions, please contact Ross Margulies at Ross.Margulies@gwumc.edu or Elizabeth Dawes at Elizabeth.Dawes@gwumc.edu