Amherst H. Wilder Foundation
Heather Britt joined Wilder in June 2022. As executive director of Wilder Research, Heather’s role is to enable teams and partners to flourish in their endeavors to understand the community and community change over time, to carefully steward program evaluation of Wilder Foundation activities, and to help ensure research and evaluation efforts yield insight and impact across St. Paul, Ramsey County, Minnesota and the nation.
Prior to joining Wilder, Heather served in leadership positions at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota, Minnesota Hospital Association, and Allina Health. She also spent time as part of the Safe & Healthy Learners unit at the Minnesota Department of Education and as a staff member at the Urban Coalition. Her leadership values of authenticity, creativity, and service guide her work to support teams and partners.
Heather’s research interests are varied, from understanding the environments where young people thrive, the effectiveness of health care redesign, and the most beneficial ways for systems and organizations to work together to support worker well-being, to the influence of health systems on health equity. Her largest research study to date was focused on community health workers in late-life care and ways health care systems can better support individuals and their families in their last few months and years of life.
Heather has her doctorate in epidemiology from the University of Minnesota, her master’s in public health from the University of North Carolina, and her bachelor’s in science from Cornell University.
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Amherst H. Wilder Foundation
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The Amherst H. Wilder Foundation is a nonprofit health and human services organization that has served the greater Saint Paul, Minnesota area since 1906. The mission of the Amherst H. Wilder Foundation is to promote the social welfare of persons resident or located in the greater Saint Paul metropolitan area by all appropriate means including: relief of the poor; care of the sick and aged; care and nurture of children; aid of the disadvantaged and otherwise needy; promotion of physical and mental health; support of rehabilitation and corrections; and provision of needed housing and social services all without regard to, or discrimination on account of, nationality, sex, color, religious scruples or prejudices.