Mobilizing the Community for Better Health: What the Rest of America Can Learn from Northern Manhattan - Paperbackby Allan Formicola (Editor), Lourdes Hernandez Cordero (Editor) From 1999 to 2009, The Northern Manhattan Community Voices Collaborative put Columbia University and its Medical Center in touch with surrounding community organizations and churches to facilitate access to primary care, nutritional improvement, and smoking cessation, and to broker innovative ways to access healthcare and other social services. This unlikely partnership and the