In healthy, equitable communities everyone feels safe, is financially secure, receives a good education, and lives in stable, affordable housing in neighborhoods that make it easy to be healthy and active every day. These neighborhoods offer a clean environment; access to healthy aaffordable foods, parks and public places; thriving small businesses and places to walk, bike, and use transit; and residents are diverse, civically engaged, and socially connected.

About

Overview November 12, 2015

About Us

Health begins where people live, learn, work, and play. Get Healthy San Mateo County is a local collaborative of community-based organizations, County agencies, cities, schools, and hospitals working together to advance policy change to prevent diseases and ensure everyone has equitable opportunities to live a long and healthy life.

Learn more in our Get Healthy San Mateo County overview video!

Achieving GHSMC’s mission requires sustaining current partnerships and building new ones to improve the health of everyone in San Mateo County.

GHSMC supports the advancement of the 10 essential public health services as defined by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The collaborative is facilitated by the San Mateo County Health.

Mission & Vision

Overview April 13, 2016

Mission & Vision

Mission

Get Healthy San Mateo County uses policy change to prevent diseases and ensure everyone has equitable opportunities to live a long and healthy life.

Vision

Get Healthy San Mateo County succeeds when all residents, regardless of income, race/ethnicity, age, ability, immigration status, sexual orientation, or gender have the opportunity to reach their full potential.

History

Overview April 13, 2016

Our History
Building Healthy Communities for all San Mateo County Residents since 2004

In 2004, under the leadership of then-San Mateo County Supervisor Rose Jacobs Gibson, a county-wide task force working on the Healthy Communities San Mateo County: A Community Health Improvement Initiative to Eliminate Health Disparities developed the Blueprint for Prevention of Childhood Obesity: A Call to Action to guide San Mateo County’s work to build healthy communities and prevent childhood obesity.

Strategic Plan

Overview November 13, 2015

Strategies for Building Healthy, Equitable Community

We are excited to share our Strategies for Building Healthy, Equitable Communities. These priorities build on over a decade of great work our community partners, cities, and leaders have done to promote health where people live, learn, work, and play. You can download our strategic plan in Spanish here.

Our Partners

Overview April 13, 2016

Our Partners

Thank you to the many organizations that have been part of Get Healthy San Mateo County over the past 10 years! With your help we have made great progress in preventing diseases and ensuring that all San Mateo County residents have the opportunity to live long and healthy lives.

Yet there is still more work to be done! Connect with us and our partners throughout San Mateo County to help build healthy, equitable communities.