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The capacity of cross-sector collaboration to create meaningful change across social–ecological levels has long been understood in public health. But the ability of cross-sector collaboration to achieve systemic change around the structural determinants of health remains complicated.

Baker, J. L., Brawner, B., Cederbaum, J. A., White, S., Davis, Z. M., Brawner, W., Jemmott, L. S. (2012). Barbershops as venues to assess and intervene in HIV/STI risk among young, heterosexual African American men. American Journal of Men’s Health, 6, 368-382. Google Scholar | SAGE Journals | ISI Brawner, B. M., Baker, J. L., Stewart, J., Davis, Z. M. (2013). The black man’s country club: Assessing the feasibility of an HIV risk-reduction program for young heterosexual African American men in barbershops.

Image via Spelman College; illustration by Erendira Mancias/FMGAt the age of 3, I’m not sure if I knew about college or Georgia, but I knew that my dad had returned from his business trip “down South” with a new shirt for me with S-P-E-L-M-A-N on the front, and I definitely knew how to throw my hands up to the Los Angeles sun (and smog), don a chubby-cheeked smile and pose for the camera.