Dr. Gabriel Kaplan, NACDD Board Past President, interviews Dr. Monica Bharel, Commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, and Ben Wood, Director of the Office of Community Health Planning and Engagement within the Department of Public Health. They discuss Massachusetts’s unique approach to addressing the social determinants of health, especially their adaptation of the Determination of Need program. For more information on this program, please visit: https://www.mass.gov/service-details/community-health-initiative-chi-requirements