HUMAN HEALTH PROJECT
EIN: 71-0891805
Mission
HHP’s mission is to promote peer-to-peer holistic health with three pillars: Information, Education and Support, whereby people around the world can help each other with their health issues, reducing inequities in health outcomes. HHP has a special focus on the underserved and vulnerable population groups, as well as the elderly and their caregivers.
Ruling year
2002
Principal Officer
Phil Harrington MD
Main address
2271 Vandalia Ave
Los Angeles, CA 90032 USA
EIN
71-0891805
Health
Medical support services
Diseases and conditions
Population served
Adults
NTEE code
Health Support Services (E60)
Alliance/Advocacy Organizations (G01)
Single Organization Support (H11)
IRS subsection
501(c)(3) Public Charity
IRS filing requirement
This organization is required to file an IRS Form 990-N.
Tax forms
Communication
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
Human Health Project's mission is to promote peer-to-peer holistic health with three pillars: Information, Education and Support, whereby people around the world can help each other with their health issues, reducing inequities in health outcomes. HHP has a special focus on the underserved and vulnerable population groups, as well as the elderly and their caregivers. Human Health Project addresses for following problems for patients and their loved ones: 1. Access to patient education about their rights and healthcare choices. 2. Access to support that inspires them to keep going no matter how difficult their health and life situation appears. 3. Access to accurate and unbiased information about all types of medicines including conventional, alternative, holistic and Integrative.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Real-World Data
Healthcare is fragmented, and this adversely impacts quality, cost, and outcomes. For example, doctors and practitioners typically don’t have knowledge of each other’s medicines and the broad range of treatments available. Additionally, due to the rapid growth of technology and online resources, the amount of health information has increased exponentially. The abundance of information available has made it much more difficult to find the information you need. Knowing who to trust in a sea of commercial health resources can seem almost impossible.
These are significant problems, and that’s what HHP’s Real-World Data program is about. We provide independent, unbiased information from our community, including all types of medicines, to help you make informed healthcare decisions. Participate by sharing your experiences or learning about how others manage their health conditions.
Learning Academy
The Learning Academy is designed for anyone interested in becoming an empowered patient, empowered caregiver, patient advocate, or those seeking to understand patient engagement and patient-centered care.
Throughout this program, participants will learn key concepts to help better navigate the healthcare system. Tools, information and support will also be provided to help patients feel more confident when facing complex life-changing decisions.
Online Panels
Online panels provide a platform for people to share their experiences with various health conditions.
Patient Advocacy
HHP's Patient Advocacy program is about empowering patients to use their right of autonomy in the healthcare system. It’s about informing patients about resources and inspiring confidence and ownership in their care plan.
Where we work
Awards
Top-Rated Nonprofit 2015
Great Nonprofits
External reviews
Our results
How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.
Number of new programs/program sites
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
People with disabilities, People with diseases and illnesses, Adults, Caregivers, Families
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
In 2019, we created our Patient Advocacy Program ('Understanding the Healthcare System' by region). In 2020, we created our Online Events Program. In 2021, we created our Learning Academy Program.
Goals & Strategy
Learn about the organization's key goals, strategies, capabilities, and progress.
Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
Information: Real World Data ( https://humanhealthproject.org/hhp-real-world-data-program/ )
Out of what we have learnt, we are now researching the building of infrastructure to be able to allow the HHP community to share information about their health conditions in a user friendly, mobile app based form boosted with artificial intelligence. Our goal with funding is to launch 2 new health conditions in 2022 and 4 in 2023. Long term, our goal is to launch all the approximately 600 main health conditions.
Education: Learning Academy (https://humanhealthproject.org/learning-academy/)
We will release a second three module course, Patient Empowerment 101 in Q2 2022 and our plan, with funding, is to launch 4 courses per year in the coming years. In addition to this, we are now working on creating and releasing US localized "State" versions of our courses and in partnership with local healthcare organizations and with funding, in other countries.
Support: Understanding The Healthcare System (Patient Advocacy)
We are currently piloting our Peer to Peer Patient Advocacy Workshops program under the name, “Understanding The Healthcare System”, which includes our HHP's Learning Academy, Patient Advocacy,11 module course. Our goal is to improve the program as a result of feedback and outcomes from the pilot program and to release it, with funding, commencing in 2022, in the US. Our goal in 2023 and future years is to release localized, US "State" versions of this program as well as localized version in other countries in partnership with local non profit healthcare partners.
Support: Online Peer to Peer Panels ( https://humanhealthproject.org/events/ )
In October 2020, we launched our Online Peer to Peer Panels program which has been very well received. Videos of the events (which can be viewed on our website) will start to be marketed in Q1 2022. Our goal, with funding, is to grow the number of events from 4 in 2021 to 6 in 2022 and 10 in 2023.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
Our strategies are
1. Deliver integrated, personalized and localized delivery of all our programs, to give people the maximum benefit from them
2. Deliver our programs to people directly online and in partnership with non profit healthcare organizations
3. Deliver our programs via mobile and online with maximum use of off-the-shelf applications and minimum coding
4. Fund the delivery of programs and services through a sustainable combination of fee for service, grants and donations
5. Continue to grow a core paid team complementing HHP volunteers
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
Our capabilities include:
- Our 7 member board and who have a broad spread of skills
- Our 9 member Program Council
- Our 8 member Advisory Board
- Our team of volunteers with the following teams
Our team includes the following sub-teams
HR - 7 people
Management 6
Development - 4
Healthcare Research - 4
Programs
- Real World Data - 6
- Learning Academy - 6
- Online Events - 4
- Understanding the Healthcare System (patient advocacy) - 4
Product - 4
Technology - 10
Business Development - 4
Marketing - 10
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
Information: Real World Data ( https://humanhealthproject.org/hhp-real-world-data-program/ )
We launched a pilot of our Real World Data Program in 2016 with the condition Migraine and followed with the condition Lupus in 2017. Since then, over 13,000 people have shared data on Causes/Triggers, Symptoms and Treatments which can be viewed on 100 pages for both Migraine and Lupus on our Real World Data pages. Outcomes data collected in 2019 (see this data in the “What Our Members Are Saying” (on our "What We Do" > "Real World Data" page) showed that people found the data very helpful.
Education: Learning Academy (https://humanhealthproject.org/learning-academy/)
In 2020, we released an 11 module Patient Advocacy course. In Q1 2022, we released, on the web and on mobile apps, our first publicly available online Patient Education, three module course Patient-Driven Data & Diagnosis: The New Trailblazers in Health Research.
Support: Online Peer to Peer Panels ( https://humanhealthproject.org/events/ )
In October 2020, we launched our Online Peer to Peer Panels program which has been very well received and have held 5 events to date, videos of which can be seen on our online events page.
How we listen
Seeking feedback from people served makes programs more responsive and effective. Here’s how this organization is listening.
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Who are the people you serve with your mission?
HHP’s mission is to promote peer-to-peer holistic health with three pillars: Information, Education and Support, whereby people can help each other with their health issues, reducing inequities in health outcomes. HHP has a special focus on the underserved and vulnerable population groups, as well as the elderly and their caregivers.
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How is your organization using feedback from the people you serve?
To identify and remedy poor client service experiences, To identify bright spots and enhance positive service experiences, To make fundamental changes to our programs and/or operations, To inform the development of new programs/projects, To identify where we are less inclusive or equitable across demographic groups, To strengthen relationships with the people we serve, To understand people's needs and how we can help them achieve their goals
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What significant change resulted from feedback?
Following a recent focus group about our Understanding the Healthcare System, we received feedback that the some of the language we were using for the program might not be understandable to everyone. We received the suggestion that the language needed to be at a 10 year old reading level to ensure to include as many people as people benefiting from the program. As a result of this feedback, we changed the language in the proram.
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Which of the following feedback practices does your organization routinely carry out?
We collect feedback from the people we serve at least annually, We take steps to get feedback from marginalized or under-represented people, We aim to collect feedback from as many people we serve as possible, We take steps to ensure people feel comfortable being honest with us, We look for patterns in feedback based on demographics (e.g., race, age, gender, etc.), We look for patterns in feedback based on people’s interactions with us (e.g., site, frequency of service, etc.), We engage the people who provide feedback in looking for ways we can improve in response, We act on the feedback we receive, We tell the people who gave us feedback how we acted on their feedback, We ask the people who gave us feedback how well they think we responded
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What challenges does the organization face when collecting feedback?
We don't have any major challenges to collecting feedback
Financials
Revenue vs. expenses: breakdown
HUMAN HEALTH PROJECT
Revenue & expensesFiscal Year: Jul 01 - Jun 30
SOURCE: IRS Form 990
HUMAN HEALTH PROJECT
Balance sheetFiscal Year: Jul 01 - Jun 30
SOURCE: IRS Form 990
The balance sheet gives a snapshot of the financial health of an organization at a particular point in time. An organization's total assets should generally exceed its total liabilities, or it cannot survive long, but the types of assets and liabilities must also be considered. For instance, an organization's current assets (cash, receivables, securities, etc.) should be sufficient to cover its current liabilities (payables, deferred revenue, current year loan, and note payments). Otherwise, the organization may face solvency problems. On the other hand, an organization whose cash and equivalents greatly exceed its current liabilities might not be putting its money to best use.
Operations
The people, governance practices, and partners that make the organization tick.
Documents
Principal Officer
Phil Harrington MD
HUMAN HEALTH PROJECT
Officers, directors, trustees, and key employeesSOURCE: IRS Form 990
Compensation data
There are no highest paid employees recorded for this organization.
HUMAN HEALTH PROJECT
Board of directorsas of 03/15/2023
Board of directors data
Ms. Sally Curley
CEO, CGIR, LLC and Adjunct Professor, Georgetown University
Term: 2023 - 2024
Philip Patrick Harrington
Human Health Project
John Kotick
The Kotick Network
Murray Clark
No Affiliation
Johanna Harris
Sally J. Curley
Lizbeth Chroman
Human Health Project
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Leadership
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Gender identity
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