About CHRT

Ayşe G. Büyüktür is associate director of Health and Social Equity Programs at CHRT. In this role she focuses on strategy and oversight for CHRT’s work with partners in local and statewide initiatives that address the social drivers of health, the integration of health and social care, and community information exchange.

Previously, Büyüktür served as the program manager for MI Community Care (MiCC), a regional health collaborative for which CHRT is the administrative hub. MiCC’s mission is threefold: (1) To provide holistic, coordinated, patient-centered care to people with complex lives and conditions; (2) To support regional health, mental health, and social service providers; and (3) To enhance the local and state care delivery system.

Büyüktür first started working with CHRT in 2016 as a consultant for the Livingston-Washtenaw State Innovation Model (SIM) intervention, the predecessor to MiCC. Her early work centered on identifying local cross-sector care coordination practices of health, behavioral health, and social service providers and informing design requirements for a shared health information technology platform to support these practices. She subsequently joined the administrative operations staff. The program has evolved over the years and received new funding from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services in 2021.

Büyüktür is a strong believer in community engagement for research and program development to best support individual and population health. She is particularly interested in understanding and addressing issues around social drivers of health, integrated care, chronic illness management, continuity of care, and the use of collaborative health technologies to support care practices. She currently serves on MDHHS’s Community Information Exchange (CIE) Advisory Committee to the Michigan Health Information Technology (HIT) Commission and associated workgroups.