The Columbia Gorge region is one of seven winners of the 2016 Culture of Health Prize awarded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.  The Prize honors communities for their efforts to ensure all residents have the opportunity to live longer, healthier, and more productive lives.  The Gorge region is being nationally recognized for bringing partners together to rally around a shared vision of health.  Chosen from nearly 200 applicant communities across the country, the Columbia Gorge’s award winning efforts include its broad definition of health which includes social determinants of health, efforts to give voice to the region’s Latino population, and expanding the scope and role of community health workers.