While data-driven approaches are crucial in community health assessments, a human-centered approach helps health practitioners to become more invested in the target population by promoting connection and more intimate interactions between health practitioners and those they serve. Such an approach can yield crucial insights into health problems that would not be possible with more formal approaches. Human-centered assessment may include more frequent face-to-face interactions with the target population, observing populations in their natural settings, approaching individuals with the intent to elicit stories as opposed to conduct interviews, and checking cultural biases.