Public Health & Equity
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What is PHERN?
PHERN, or the Public Health and Equity Resource Navigator, aims to help changemakers navigate over 2,000 resources focused on improving the public’s health, advancing equity, and building a resilient, robust, sustainable public health system for the future.
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Mapping the Alliance and Beyond!
- Learn who is doing what and where
- Explore the Alliance members and partner organization’s place-based initiatives
- Map the movement of public health and equity across the nation in response to COVID-19
2,000+ Resources
Explore curated resources selected to cover key and emerging public health topics, equity, and antiracism. The content selected for PHERN includes resources, tools, and stories selected with a bias towards action and varied to accommodate different learning styles.
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Public Health Authority
The authority to act to protect and promote the public's health has emerged over the course of our Nation’s history, and has enabled many of modern public health’s greatest achievements. Today, public health agencies use their authority to promote health, prevent the spread of infectious disease, protect against environmental hazards, advance equity and assure local public health infrastructure and health services. During declared emergencies, state and federal authorities have broader powers to act to assist governments, suspend or modify legal requirements, pass and enforce law and expend funds for the health, safety and welfare of society. Recently, some states have moved to limit public health powers. Such efforts pose a mounting challenge for public health’s response to COVID-19 and future threats.
Building Trust
Building trust in COVID-19 vaccination and other public health interventions is fundamental to the work of public health and efforts to end the COVID-19 pandemic. We can build trust by combating misinformation, supporting trusted messengers and networks, improving our trustworthiness, and deepening relationships that engender trust over time. Building trust between public health and communities facilitates acceptance of public health interventions and can cultivate an equitable COVID-19 response now and conditions for well-being in the future.
Community Assessment and Engagement
Community assessment is a systematic process by which a community’s health status and related factors are examined; it is used to identify problems and assets in a community. Through community engagement, stakeholders work together to address health-related issues and promote well-being with the goal of improving health outcomes. These two processes work hand-in-hand to facilitate health improvements. COVID-19 has changed the assessment landscape in many ways–introducing new challenges for engagement, upending pre-pandemic implementation plans, and necessitating new and updated data to understand emerging health impacts and needs.
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The Public Health & Equity Resource Navigator (PHERN) is an initiative of
The American Public Health Association & The Alliance for the Public’s Health
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American Public Health Association
800 I Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001
202-777-2742