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Healing Through Policy: Creating Pathways to Racial Justice

This issue bried is full of curated policies and practices that can be implemented at the local level to promote racial healing and advance racial equity.

Learn by Topic – The Rippel Foundation

The Rippel Foundation’s “Learn by Topic” portal offers a comprehensive suite of resources designed to support public health practitioners, community-based organizations (CBOs), and stewards in advancing health equity through systems...

Strengthening Partnerships Between Governmental Public Health and Community-Based Organizations

This webinar, hosted by the CDC Foundation Health Equity and Strategy Office in collaboration with Human Impact Partners and supported by Kaiser Permanente, focuses on enhancing collaborations between governmental public...

Power-Building for Health Departments Webinar Series

This two-part webinar series, hosted by Human Impact Partners (HIP) in June and July 2022, is designed for health department leaders, staff, and partners. It delves into power imbalances as...

Powerful Partnerships for Healthy Communities – Three Part Video Series

This video series from Human Impact Partners explores how public health departments and community organizers can build power together to advance health equity. It showcases real-world partnerships, highlighting strategies for...

8 Ways to Connect with Your Public Health Department

This resource helps community-based organizations understand how their missions align with those of local health departments, especially around issues like housing and other social determinants of health, and guidance for...

Power-building Resources – Human Impact Partners

The “Bridging Partnerships and Strategies” resource from Health In Partnership focuses on fostering collaboration between governmental public health entities and community-based organizations to advance health equity and social justice. It...

Testing a Shared Decision-making Model for Health and Social Service Delivery in East Harlem (Research-in-Progress Series)

This presentation from Systems for Action outlines a study testing a place-based system integration model in East Harlem, New York City. The model aims to improve coordination among health and...

Power-Building Partnerships for Health: Lessons From Santa Barbara About Building Power to Protect Farmworker Health and Advance Health Equity

This article highlights how the Santa Barbara County Public Health Department partnered with grassroots organizations CAUSE and MICOP through the Power-building Partnerships for Health (PPH) initiative. By centering trust and...

Primer on Power-building, Housing Justice and Health Equity

This resource explores how community power-building can address structural oppression and advance both housing justice and health equity. It serves as a guide for health professionals, policymakers, and organizers to...

Working with Community Organizers (who, why, how)

This resource from the Health Equity Guide, developed by Human Impact Partners, emphasizes the importance of collaboration between public health departments and community organizers.

Systems for Action

The Systems for Action (S4A) program focuses on discovering and applying evidence to align delivery and financing systems across public health, medical, and social services sectors. By funding research on...

Developing Transformative Health Department and Community Based Organization Partnerships

This resource, “Strengthening Partnerships Between Governmental Public Health and Community-Based Organizations,” was developed by the CDC Foundation in collaboration with Human Impact Partners and supported by Kaiser Permanente. It offers...

Shifting and Sharing Power: Public Health’s Charge in Building Community Power

This NACCHO Exchange article emphasizes the critical role of local health departments (LHDs) in addressing systemic health inequities by shifting from traditional engagement methods to authentic power-sharing with grassroots community...

Three Faces of Power, Grassroots Power Project

The “Three Faces of Power” framework by the Grassroots Policy Project helps community-based organizations and public health advocates understand and build power through direct action, infrastructure development, and ideological influence....

NALSYS Research

The National Longitudinal Survey of Public Health Systems (NALSYS) is a research initiative that tracks over 500 U.S. communities to study the implementation and impact of multi-sector population health activities....

Racial Justice and Power Sharing: The Heart of Leading Systems Change

This book chapter describes how systems change leaders can place the values of racial justice and power-sharing at the heart of their practice, thereby shifting the system in the process...

Philanthropy and Public Health: Building Strong Partnerships for Healthy Communities

This webinar, designed for public health professionals, offers an overview of the strategies philanthropic organizations use to improve population health. It emphasizes the importance of building strong partnerships between philanthropy...

Theory in Action: Public Health and Community Power Building for Health Equity

This article from the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice offers a practical framework for understanding and addressing power imbalances that contribute to health inequities. Using the “Three Faces...

Public Health 101 for Organizers

This resource provides a practical guide designed to help community organizers understand and engage with governmental public health systems to advance equity-focused campaigns. It offers strategic insights, collaboration tools, and...

Changing States: A Framework for Progressive Governance, USC Equity Research Institute

The “Changing States” framework by the USC Equity Research Institute outlines a strategy for advancing progressive governance at the state level. It focuses on building power within states to drive...

Joint Call to Action to Promote Healthy Communities

The Joint Call to Action to Promote Healthy Communities is a collaborative initiative led by the American Society of Landscape Architects and other professional organizations. It emphasizes the importance of...

The Lead Local Collaborative

Lead Local is a collaborative initiative that unites leaders in community organizing, advocacy, and research to explore how building community power can catalyze and sustain health equity. It emphasizes that...

HIP Case Studies About Power-Building Partnerships: Health Equity Guide Case Studies About Health Departments Sharing Power With Community Organizers

These case studies from Human Impact Partners’ Health Equity Guide illustrate how state, local, tribal, and territorial health departments are advancing health equity through transformative internal practices and authentic partnerships...

Co-Governing Towards Multi-Racial Democracy, Partners in Dignity and Rights, Race Forward

This resource showcases community-led models of co-governance that align public systems with grassroots leadership to advance racial and economic justice. Through real-world examples like People’s Assemblies and worker-led enforcement, the...

Mobilizing for Action through Planning and Partnerships (MAPP) Network

The MAPP Network is a virtual community hosted by the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) for individuals and organizations interested in the Mobilizing for Action through...

Lead Local Glossary

The Lead Local Glossary offers clear definitions of key concepts such as community power, base building, structural change, and health equity. It serves as a foundational resource for understanding how...

Forming Partnerships With Public Health Departments, Part 1: Why It’s a Good Idea

This resource explores why forming partnerships between housing justice organizations and public health departments is a powerful strategy for advancing racial equity, improving health outcomes, and addressing systemic housing inequities....

Testing a Shared Governance Model for Health and Social Service Delivery in East Harlem (IAPHS 2018)

This resource explores how fragmented delivery and financing systems for medical, social, and public health services—often operating in isolation despite serving overlapping populations—can be better coordinated. The study emphasizes the...

The Roots of Health Inequity

Explore the underlying causes of social injustice and health inequity to unearth public health’s role in building healthier communities, spoiler: building power with CBOs is key! The Roots of Health...

Providence Case Story: Turning the Tide in Providence

How long-term community organizing against polluting industry in the Port of Providence is building the infrastructure for co-governance and making progress towards climate justice.

Building Community Power To Dismantle Policy-Based Structural Inequity In Population Health

This resource advocates for shifting population health strategies from technocratic, individual-focused models to a democratic approach rooted in building community power to dismantle policy-driven structural inequities. It highlights how structural...

Activities to Deepen Your Power-Building Analysis

This resource provides lessons, activities, and tools in assessing power and influence and how to engage in meaningful conversations about what it is, who holds it, and how to leverage...

Centering Racial Justice in the Public Health Ecosystem: Lessons From COVID-19

This brief describes the actions and commitments of an ecosystem approach to public health. Distinctions between this ecosystem approach and the current focus on rebuilding governmental public health infrastructure to...

A Recipe for Meaningful Community Engagement

This resource provides guidance on how to move beyond transactional relationships and foster meaningful, long-term community engagement, emphasizing racial equity, collaboration, and the importance of centering community voices in change...

Undoing the Drivers of Health Inequity

This resource shows how ChangeLab Solutions addresses the five fundamental drivers of health inequity by developing legal and policy strategies to transform policies and systems. Examples of how communities nationwide...

Tribal Epidemiology Toolkit

This toolkit provides resources and best practices to promote population health among tribal communities by enhancing public health surveillance in Indian Country. This resource includes guidance for obtaining and using...

Strengthening Partnerships Between Public Health and Community-Based Organizations

This resource offers recommendations and a roadmap based on insights from health department and CBO leaders to enhance partnerships and address public health challenges. It aims to promote equitable solutions,...

Building Trust-Based Community Partnerships For Public Health Professionals

This tool focuses on fostering trust-based partnerships between public health professionals and communities burdened by climate and environmental hazards, aiming to improve health equity outcomes through collaboration and shared expertise....

Community Power–Building Groups and Public Health NGOs: Reimagining Public Health Advocacy

This resource explores the potential of partnerships between public health organizations and community power-building organizations to address health disparities by shifting the distribution of power.

The Community as a Full Partner: A New Model For Public Health

This resource discusses the need to strengthen the US public health system through greater community engagement and leadership, as highlighted by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Centering the Community’s Voice in State-Led Health Equity Initiatives

This resource highlights state-led health equity initiatives, focusing on the Strategies to Repair Equity and Transform Community Health (STRETCH) Initiative, which aims to build capacity within public health departments to...

COVID-19 Health Equity Technical Assistance

This resource provides technical assistance, training, and resources for OT21-2103 grant recipients as part of the National Initiative to Address COVID-19 Health Disparities among high-risk and underserved populations....

Applied Epidemiology Competencies Evaluation

This resource provides evaluation tools for assessing knowledge, skills, and abilities across the seven domains of the Applied Epidemiology Competencies (AECs) to support professional development and performance reviews in the...

Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE): 2024–2026 Strategic Impact Plan

This resource outlines CSTE’s 2024-2026 Strategic Impact Plan, focusing on advancing applied epidemiology to promote public health through innovation, workforce development, data modernization, and community engagement, aiming to ensure thriving...

Bridging Partnerships and Strategies

This resource focuses on building deep partnerships between government public health departments and community organizers to advance health equity, community power, and systems change regarding the social determinants of health....

The BUILD Health Challenge Workbook

This workbook is designed to help communities looking to employ cross-sector and community-driven approaches that ensure everyone can reach their optimal level of health. The information in this workbook reflects...

Ready to Advance Health Equity

This resource focuses on enhancing the capacity of state, tribal, local, and territorial health departments to use law and policy to address social determinants of health and advance health equity.

Supporting Equitable Community Engagement

This resource guides state health departments on supporting equitable and inclusive community engagement to address social determinants of health and reduce health inequities.

Enhancing Data Access to Improve American Indian and Alaska Native Health: A Framework for State and Local Public Health Officials

This resource is a policy brief that outlines strategies for improving American Indian and Alaska Native health through better access to health data, focusing on tribal sovereignty, data sharing, equity,...

How to Build Cross-Sector Partnerships That Improve Public Health

This resource provides guidance on effective communication strategies for building cross-sector partnerships to enhance public health outcomes

Achieving Environmental Health Equity: The Need and Opportunities for Public Health Action

This resource highlights the need for public health organizations to address environmental health disparities by dismantling systemic inequalities, particularly structural racism, and advancing health equity.

Big Cities Health Coalition Epidemiology Capacity Assessment, 2024

This resource provides an in-depth analysis of the epidemiology capacity in health departments, covering staffing, funding, methods, findings, and recommendations for improvement.

Human Impact Partners: Health Equity Guide

The Health Equity Guide is a comprehensive resource designed to help public health departments and practitioners plan and implement health equity and racial justice strategies.

The Spectrum of Community Engagement to Ownership

The Spectrum of Community Engagement to Ownership charts a pathway to strengthen and transform our local democracies. Leaders across multiple sectors, such as community-based organizations, local governments, philanthropic partners, and...

A Campaign for Dignity and Respect

This resource is about how Step Up Louisiana and the New Orleans Health Department utilized an inside-outside strategy to successfully advocate for a Workers’ Bill of Rights in New Orleans,...

Reimagining Public Health Advocacy

This resource explores the potential for stronger partnerships between public health NGOs and community power-building organizations (CPBOs) to address health and housing issues through collaborative efforts and shared strategies.

Multisector Community Health Partnerships: Potential Opportunities and Challenges

This brief summarizes the proceedings of a recent NASEM workshop where participants explored multisector community health partnerships that aim to address inequities and improve the health and well-being of communities.

NACCHO: Health in All Policies

This resource provides information and resources on Health in All Policies (HiAP), emphasizing its implementation support for local health departments, collaboration across sectors, and access to tools like resolutions, ordinances,...

Resources for Collaboration and Power Sharing Between Government Agencies and Community Power-Building Organizations

This resource provides guidance to health departments on how to partner with Community Power-Building Organizations (CPBOs) to promote health equity. It includes four guides with activities aimed at building capacity...

Supporting Communities and Local Public Health Departments During COVID-19 and Beyond: A Roadmap for Equitable and Transformative Change

This resource outlines policy, program, and resource recommendations to help local public health departments and communities better prepare for and respond to public health emergencies, with a focus on equity...

Exploring Equity in Multi-sector Community Health Partnerships

This roundtable workshop proceedings from the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine Roundtable on Population Health Improvement explores multi-sector health partnerships that engage residents, reduce health disparities, and improve...

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