Regional Health Equity Coalitions (RHECs)

What are RHECs?

Regional Health Equity Coalitions (RHECs) are made up of grassroots community members and representatives from culturally specific community-based organizations who work to identify what the most pressing health equity issues are in their region. Once they identify those priorities, then they work to develop solutions to these barriers and challenges at the policy, systems and environment change levels.These efforts focus on issues impacting priority populations including Communities of Color, Tribal communities including the nine federally recognized Tribes in Oregon and other American Indians and Alaska Natives people, immigrants, refugees, migrant and seasonal farmworkers, individuals and families with low-income, people with disabilities, and LGBTQ communities, with Communities of Color as the leading priority.

How many RHECs are there?
There are 9 RHECs that represent 20 counties. Oregon Health Authority is working to secure additional resources for another five RHECs in the future.

Materials & Resources

• Community Engagement Process with Diverse Communities: Input on OHA’s Strategic Plan, October 2019.
• Regional Health Equity Coalition and Equitable Governance Models.
• 2017 Oregon Regional Health Equity Coalitions Evaluation Report.
• Life Expectancy in Oregon by Neighborhood
• Health Equity and Inclusion Lens for Bill Analysis
• Equitable Procurement Processes with Priority Populations (English)
• Procesos Equitativos de Adquisición con las Poblaciones Prioritarias (Español)

Requests and Contact Information

If you have a request to engage with the E&I RHEC team or one of the Regional Health Equity Coalitions please complete this form.  This helps ensure all information needed to understand the request is provided and that the E&I RHEC team have a way to track and quantify the requests received over time. 

Email: rhecprogram@oha.oregon.gov