Get Healthy Utah is a non-profit organization working to improve healthy eating and active living in Utah. Get Healthy Utah works with school, workplace, and community leaders to influence system level change and provide better opportunities for health.
Get Healthy Utah recognizes that complex health issues can only be adequately addressed through partnerships and collaboration. By aligning efforts across sectors, we are better able to get results. We understand that policy, systems, and environmental changes are key to creating a culture of health in Utah. We know that opportunities to be healthy are not equally accessible to all Utahns and that we must focus on changes that create equitable opportunities to ensure improved health and wellness for all.
The mission of Get Healthy Utah is to create a culture of health through engaging multi-sector stakeholders, building partnerships, providing resources, and connecting efforts that support healthy eating and active living. We do this by:
Each year, Get Healthy Utah gives Partnership Awards to organizations that have collaborated across sectors to significantly improve community health. This year at the Fall 2021 Get Healthy Utah Stakeholder Retreat, Partnership Awards were presented to five recipients. Three awards were presented for work done in 2020 and two awards were presented for work done […]
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The Fall 2021 Get Healthy Utah Stakeholder Retreat was held in-person on October 7th in Salt Lake City. Attendees represented various sectors that have an upstream impact on community health, such as healthcare, public health, city leadership, businesses, transportation, and education. The retreat focused on the importance of leveraging cross-sector collaboration to improve the conditions […]
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On June 30, 2021, Get Healthy Utah held a virtual information session on type 2 diabetes, the National Diabetes Prevention Program (National DPP), and the importance of Medicaid coverage. During the information session, Representative Suzanne Harrison introduced upcoming legislation that would allow Medicaid coverage of the National Diabetes Prevention Program in Utah. A recording of […]
READ MORE >>The annual USOPHE conference will be held virtually on November 4, 2021. The theme this year is “Growing Together Toward Tomorrow,” with a specific focus on resilience.
November 4 at Virtual Event
