Launched in November 2025, we are bringing together researchers, educators, and clinicians from across the Anschutz Medical Campus in connection with policymakers, public officials, and community members to create the nation's leading scientific hub dedicated to understanding and addressing synergistically related epidemics that arise from and perpetuate conditions of poverty. We will: 

• Identify synergies across campus and world that lead to programmatic science that improve population health
• Produce the scientific evidence-base for the prevention of and response to co-occurring social and health epidemics through rigorous research
• Create a model educational environment for clinicians, researchers, hospital systems, policymakers, and members of the community conceptualize all disease through a bi-directional lens
• Inform the evidence-base for social, economic, and administrative decisions that prevent and respond to social and health epidemics.

COPHI will be the nation’s leading scientific hub for understanding and addressing these crises.