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The Partners for Advancing Health Equity (P4HE) Resource Library is a virtual portal containing action-oriented health equity research, practice, and policies. The library aims to increase equity in health by offering free access to field-tested, evidence-informed and evidence-based programs strategies and high-quality research.
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- On June 1, 2019, to commemorate World Pride and the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots, the NYC AIDS Memorial will debut its newest site-specific art installation, Visual Impact: On Art, AIDS, and Activism. Situated adjacent to the Memorial Park on Greenwich Avenue, and presented in partnership with the NYC Department of Transportation’s Art Program, the educational exhibition showcases…June 2019HIV, Advocacy
- On Jan. 10, 2019, Taté Walker (they/them) presented on the violence and marginalization faced by Indigenous womxn*, primarily due to the ongoing, chronic impacts of settler colonialism. Walker, who is Lakota and a citizen of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe of South Dakota, is an Indigenous rights activist and award-winning multimedia storyteller. Walker observed that the U.S. murder rate for…January 2019Community Violence, Structural Violence
- To assist state agencies with talking about issues related to equity in general and racial equity in particular, the Governor’s Interagency Council on Health Disparities (Council) is creating this Equity Language Guide. It provides guidance, standard definitions, and terms to avoid that agencies can use in the creation of reports, forms, and other written materials. This guidance is not…December 2018Communication
- Throughout this summer and fall, thousands of advocates urged their federal legislators to reauthorize the Children Health Insurance Program (CHIP). Advocates wrote or contacted their legislators, urged others to take similar action, and publicized the importance of CHIP. These sustained advocacy efforts were widely recognized as key to Congress’ extension of CHIP this winter – an important…March 2018Advocacy
- In the wake of the waves of women speaking out about sexual harassment; gerrymandering rising to the level of a US Supreme Court case; inaction on gun control in the face of multiple mass shootings; and the riots around the removal of Civil War-era confederate monuments, there is an awareness that these events have affected the health and well-being of our communities. Public health professionals…February 2018Social/Structural Determinants, Systemic Determinants
- Build alliances with community partners to protect against risk and build community power. Health departments play a convening role that can be used to advance health equity. Community partners and the health department can develop alliances or networks that collectively and powerfully advance equity by increasing awareness, advocating for policy and systems change, and ensuring accountability.…June 2017Community-rooted/Participatory Research, Interventions
- The National Academy of Medicine (NAM), a nonprofit research organization in Washington, DC, called on artists of all kinds to illustrate what health equity looks, sounds, and feels like to them. Whether it’s access to healthy food or safe neighborhoods, good education or a living wage, clean drinking water or affordable housing, connection to cultural heritage or lack of discrimination, health…January 2017Policy and Practice
- Health in All Policies (HiAP) is a collaborative approach that integrates and articulates health considerations into policymaking across sectors to improve the health of all communities and people. HiAP recognizes that health is created by a multitude of factors beyond healthcare and, in many cases, beyond the scope of traditional public health activities. The HiAP approach provides one way to…June 2016Policy and Practice
- On Sept. 17, 2015, professor John A. Powell, director of the Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society at University of California, Berkeley, discussed structural racialization, the concept of “targeted universalism” and more at the final event in the 2015 Health Equity Learning Series. More than 200 attendees sold out the History Colorado Center in Denver, and hundreds more live-streamed…September 2015Community-rooted/Participatory Research
- Water can be disinfected and in this way made drinkable using the rays of the sun. "Solar water disinfection" - SODIS for short - thus offers a solution for preventing diarrhoea, one of the most common causes of death among people in developing countries. (author introduction)May 2011Communicable Disease
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