Previously Featured Resources
This page shares resources that were previously featured on the home page. The most recent resources are listed at the top.
This article, written by Ruqaiijah Yearby J.D. M.P.H., discusses how, since 2022, some states have sought to eliminate civil rights and protections for women and LGBTQIA+ and racial/ethnic minority individuals and how these actions evidence a return to the discrimination of the Jim Crow era.
This report, and the evaluation that informed it, examines what it takes for advocacy to build power in addition to achieving wins.
The report summarizes how “equity” is defined in policymaking and reviews different models and methods for incorporating equity into legislative analysis. The report was commissioned to provide a template and guide for conducting legislative equity impact assessments to inform the work of the California legislature.
This evaluation shares stories of impact, transformation, and community power building from the perspectives of Berkeley leaders and residents about the the implementation of Berkeley’s sugary drink tax on distributors. The evaluation team identified key system and community impacts that resulted from this initiative, as well as examples of how racial equity and community power building were centered in the efforts to build a healthier community overall.
This report summarizes the recommendations provided by focus groups comprised of experts in community engagement; immigration; public health; social and community health activism; and race and social justice. These recommendations offer pathways for improving the efficacy of philanthropic efforts in addressing racism and eliminating health inequities. Namely, they implore funders to reconsider and realign their approach to working with oppressed and marginalized communities and community organizations.
The demand for mental health support from BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) therapists is rooted in their unique ability to provide their clients with a shared cultural experience and understanding. However, there is a significant shortage of such therapists. To gain deeper insights, we analyzed Psychology Today’s extensive therapist directory to determine in what parts of the country there is a scarcity of BIPOC therapists relative to the size of the BIPOC community. We evaluated the following ethnicities: Black and African American, Hispanic and Latino, Asian, and Native American.
STRIDE is a collaborative research initiative whose goal is to identify four positive outlier settings (Exemplars) that have improved health equity through intentional, anti-discriminatory structural interventions/actions; investigate drivers of success; and compile transferable lessons. This Exemplars project supports the second objective of the O’Neill-Lancet Commission on Racism, Structural Discrimination, and Global Health, which aims to “identify best practices and actionable anti-racist strategies”.
A compilation of the perspectives of the Anti-Racism Consortium, IHJE, and community leaders, this report summarizes the inadequacies of traditional funding practices that prevent much of the funded work from addressing racism and eliminating health inequities. This report proceeds to make recommendations that could transform how funders partner with racial and ethnic minority communities — and that could empower the communities as well as advance justice and human dignity for all.
A safe and stable home is the foundation for a healthy life, but remains out of reach for many. New laws that guarantee a right to counsel for tenants facing eviction offer a promising opportunity to address this and related racial and health inequities. This primer offers an overview what right to counsel laws are, how they can advance racial and health justice, and steps that public health practitioners can take to support #RightToCounsel efforts across the country.
Human Impact Partners and I collaborated with Homes 4 All St. Louis to create a housing quality brief that discusses the connection between racism, poor housing quality, and health inequities. This is a great brief because it is a model of how Homes 4 All (a community organization), CARE members, and governmental officials worked together to highlight the impact of racism on access to quality housing. It also provides actionable recommendations for policy action.
The Getting to Equity in Obesity Prevention (GTE) toolkit addresses the need to include an equity component in the planning, implementation and evaluation of policy, systems, and environmental change approaches (PSE) undertaken to curb adverse trends in obesity and related health consequences. PSE approaches focus on circumstances that make it possible or easier for people in a given set of circumstances to adopt and maintain healthy behaviors. PSE approaches can work together with approaches that work directly with individuals. This toolkit provides information about the Getting to Equity in Obesity Prevention framework including examples of how it has been operationalized, additional resources for applying a health equity lens to programs and policies, as well as a worksheet to facilitate the incorporation of the GTE concepts into your work.
It’s a powerful tool that displays critical information in an easy-to-understand format. The Council is a data-driven organization. As a leader in the health equity space, setting and achieving goals is essential to our mission. The dashboard shows project info and key performance indicators. It links to our goals. These indicators focus on reducing chronic illnesses affecting Black communities. They also improve healthcare access and communication within the community. Our efforts are guided by the Black Health Bill of Rights. This document outlines strategies for better health in Black communities. You can learn more about it here.
This framework, issued by the National Association of Chronic Disease Directors, aims to define principles and guidelines that address SDOH and promote health equity, bringing the public health field closer to achieving social justice. It serves as a response to the increased demand for a greater understanding of the role that societal constructs, such as racism and classism, play in creating and widening inequities and a desire to develop actionable frameworks to guide public health professionals in their work.
Between March and May 2023, the Big Cities Health Coalition polled key audiences in its 35 member jurisdictions. The goal was to better understand how individuals who are skeptical of public health interventions could be moved to better support the important role governmental public health departments and leaders play in their communities. This messaging guide contains key findings and recommendations, including how to talk about racial equity.
When cultural racism is this entrenched, how do we successfully do equity-focused and anti-racist work? In this recent blog post, Big Cities Health Coalition shares one strategy we can take, adopting an asset-based perspective. Read the post to learn more about this strategy, and how it can help us envision health, equity, justice and longevity and plot our way in the direction of eradicating cultural racism.
The Collaborative for Anti-Racism & Equity (CARE) is hosted its first webinar on 8/24/23 . In this 90-minute presentation, hear from our partners and we discuss our work to support and address racism as a public health crisis.
This year’s report focuses on the connection between civic health and thriving people and places. Civic health includes two elements – civic infrastructure and civic participation. It starts in our local communities and is the cornerstone of our democracy, representing promise, opportunity, belonging and shared responsibility. Civic infrastructure varies in regions of the US that have faced longstanding discrimination and disinvestment.
Learn about how differences across the social determinants of health (SDOH) – or the factors that shape our living and work environments – can shape how we survive and thrive. These differences can lead to worse health outcomes for historically marginalized communities, especially Black Americans, but we have opportunities to address these outcomes through clear and targeted policies rooted in equity.
This resource from the Network for Public Health Law details examples of city and county equity offices in twelve states, including their structure, duties, and responsibilities. These offices vary in structure and scope but provide the infrastructure necessary to advance anti-racism and equity in practice. Readers can also share examples of offices in other jurisdictions via a linked form.
The Critical Futures podcast series from the Institute for Healing Justice & Equity features conversations are between organizations and their community partners to highlight how to deeply work with community in a way that shares power and that moves us all towards liberation. In this episode, the host and guests explore inequities in maternal health, the criminal legal system, education, and in pandemic-related outcomes in St. Louis.
In this article from a 2021 special issue in the Journal of Women’s Health, the authors apply the reproductive justice framework and focus on the structural determinants of health and root causes of inequities to explain policy and practice solutions that can remediate and eliminate inequities in maternal health outcomes.
This state-level policy platform for maternal and infant health equity from the Elephant Circle includes multiple policies that may be enacted in varying sequences as well as an approach for how to sequence policy changes over time. The policies included aim to structurally address inequities so that perinatal care is more effective and equitable.
This report by the Center for American Progress (CAP) is part of a series on Systematic Inequality in America. From slavery and Jim Crow to the New Deal and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the authors give specific examples of how government policy has segregated and devalued domestic, agricultural, and service occupations, and how lawmakers have limited the scope of anti-discrimination enforcement. Workers of color continue to experience discrimination in employment, wages, benefits and almost every other measure of economic well-being.
Access to data about wealth equity in the U.S is essential to support investment in Black communities and close the wealth divide. The Black Wealth Data Center has been working to raise the standard on the collection, quality, and accessibility of racial wealth equity data and to provide public and private sector leaders with actionable data for policy making and investment decisions. The Black Wealth Indicators tool displays a dozen factors impacting Black wealth accumulation, such as median home value, bachelor’s degree attainment, and health insurance, and makes it possible to view and compare your home county to the U.S. and other counties.
Similar to evaluating policies for budget impact, many equity advocates have urged elected officials to also evaluate policies for equity impacts. In October 2022, Brookings Metro and the Institute on Race, Power and Political Economy at The New School released a preliminary research brief explaining the evolution of equity analysis on public policy, the four functions of equity assessment tools, and recurring challenges for racial equity impact assessment. Check out this report to learn about equity innovations in U.S. governance and keep an eye out for their follow-up report.
More than 200 municipalities and states across the US have declared racism a public health crisis, and CEO Action for Racial Equity (CEOARE) is working to expand support for these declarations. CEOARE’s Racism: A Public Health Crisis team conducted a review and analysis of 200-plus declarations identified by the American Public Health Association and compiled the most critical elements of the declarations to be incorporated into a Racial Equity Implementation Framework (“Framework”). The team hopes this Framework can be used as a resource by municipalities, states, and other government organizations in a manner that can help encourage successful and equitable outcomes in BIPOC communities across the United States.
Public health’s power and authority to act and keep us safe is under attack. In response, Berkeley Media Studies Group (BMSG) and Real Language (RL) partnered to identify framing strategies and effective language to respond to these attacks and provide five recommendations to establish the value of and make the case for public health.
Building on their 2020 report, Racism is a Public Health Crisis, Here’s How to Respond, the Institute for Healing Justice & Equity published a NEW report discussing how local governments are responding to racism as a public health crisis and sharing recommendations to respond to the health impacts of racism.
This article in the journal Health Equity evaluates segregation as a cause of reduced high school graduation rates among Black students, and explores the association between lack of high school completion and a reduction in Black life expectancy.
This free e-book from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation explores how to have authentic conversations about race and the history of this nation, particularly regarding structural racism and the harms of racial injustice. Honest conversations about structural racism and racial inequities are important to promote strategies to advance racial equity.
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