Purpose Built Communities
Douglas Jutte is a highly experienced public health professional and academic with a strong focus on health disparities, community development, and impactful policy design. Currently serving as a Senior Advisor at Social Finance and as a Principal Investigator at the Public Health Institute, Jutte is also a Board Member for several nonprofits, including the Center for Health Care Strategies and Purpose Built Communities. Jutte previously held notable roles such as Executive Director of the Build Healthy Places Network and Senior Scientific Editor for the U.S. Surgeon General. With an extensive academic background, including faculty positions at UC Berkeley and the University of Manitoba, Jutte holds an MD from Harvard Medical School, alongside advanced degrees in epidemiology and public health.
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Purpose Built Communities
Purpose Built Communities is an organization that helps local leaders implement a comprehensive, long-term place-based redevelopment model with public and private partners in neighborhoods of concentrated urban poverty to create healthy, vibrant neighborhoods where all residents can thrive. It is a nonprofit consulting firm that offers its services free of charge. The Purpose Built Model includes mixed-income housing, a cradle-to-college education pipeline and community wellness programs and facilities in a defined neighborhood, coordinated by a dedicated, nonprofit community quarterback organization. There are now 16 Purpose Built Communities Network Members across the United States.