The Care Collaborative: Strengthening Public Health through Connection and Collaboration
May 1, 2026
Public health challenges don’t exist in isolation, and neither do the solutions. At The Care Collaborative, improving public health starts with strengthening the connections between frontline providers, public health leaders and subject matter experts across Colorado. By creating accessible pathways for shared knowledge, we help ensure that critical information reaches the clinicians and communities who need it most.
This work comes to life through targeted ECHO series that respond to urgent and emerging public health needs. Recent programs have focused on topics including syphilis, childhood lead poisoning prevention, breastfeeding and monthly public health updates. These series equip primary care providers with practical, evidence-based guidance they can immediately apply, helping to close gaps between public health recommendations and real-world clinical practice.
Our collaboration with the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) is central to this effort. By working across multiple departments within CDPHE, The Care Collaborative helps amplify key initiatives and align messaging across systems. Together, we extend the reach of public health expertise beyond traditional channels and into everyday care settings throughout the state.
The Care Collaborative serves as a trusted resource for partners looking to share timely information. Whether it’s distributing new guidelines, elevating emerging concerns or highlighting available resources, we act as a bridge, ensuring that critical updates don’t stop at the policy level but are translated into practice. Through ECHO, we provide concise, actionable insights that busy clinicians can quickly absorb and use.
This role as a communication channel is especially important in a rapidly evolving public health landscape. By linking providers directly to trusted resources and reinforcing key messages through ECHO programming, we help create a more informed, responsive and connected healthcare system. Providers are not only better equipped to care for individual patients, they are also stronger contributors to population health.
The Care Collaborative remains committed to deepening partnerships with public health leaders across Colorado. By continuing to listen, collaborate and respond to emerging needs, we will keep building a system where knowledge is shared, access is expanded and public health is strengthened.
This work comes to life through targeted ECHO series that respond to urgent and emerging public health needs. Recent programs have focused on topics including syphilis, childhood lead poisoning prevention, breastfeeding and monthly public health updates. These series equip primary care providers with practical, evidence-based guidance they can immediately apply, helping to close gaps between public health recommendations and real-world clinical practice.
Our collaboration with the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) is central to this effort. By working across multiple departments within CDPHE, The Care Collaborative helps amplify key initiatives and align messaging across systems. Together, we extend the reach of public health expertise beyond traditional channels and into everyday care settings throughout the state.
The Care Collaborative serves as a trusted resource for partners looking to share timely information. Whether it’s distributing new guidelines, elevating emerging concerns or highlighting available resources, we act as a bridge, ensuring that critical updates don’t stop at the policy level but are translated into practice. Through ECHO, we provide concise, actionable insights that busy clinicians can quickly absorb and use.
This role as a communication channel is especially important in a rapidly evolving public health landscape. By linking providers directly to trusted resources and reinforcing key messages through ECHO programming, we help create a more informed, responsive and connected healthcare system. Providers are not only better equipped to care for individual patients, they are also stronger contributors to population health.
The Care Collaborative remains committed to deepening partnerships with public health leaders across Colorado. By continuing to listen, collaborate and respond to emerging needs, we will keep building a system where knowledge is shared, access is expanded and public health is strengthened.