Jonathan Heller

Position title: Senior Health Equity Fellow

Email: jheller7@wisc.edu

Jonathan Heller
Jonathan Heller is a Senior Health Equity Fellow at the Population Health Institute at the University of Wisconsin and a Senior Health Equity Specialist at the National Collaborating Centre for Determinants of Health in Canada. Jonathan’s work focuses on the structural determinants of health, power, and community organizing. He is the co-founder and until 2020 was the co-director of Human Impact Partners, a national non-profit focused on bringing the power of public health to campaigns and movements for a just society. Under Jonathan‘s leadership for 14 years, Human Impact Partners became a national public health leader focused on changing policies related to the social determinants of health by: supporting community organizing groups and campaigns with research and advocacy; conducting leadership development, capacity building, and political education with public health agencies; organizing the public health community; and supporting narrative change initiatives. Jonathan received his bachelor’s degree from Harvard University and doctorate from University of California, Berkeley, and he served in the Peace Corps in Papua New Guinea. Jonathan is a co-founder and past president of the Society of Practitioners of Health Impact Assessment (SOPHIA) and served on the board of Community Change.