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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 despi...
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 raci...
Lead Local Glossary
The Lead Local Glossary offers clear definitions of key concepts such as community power, base building, structural change, and...
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 int...
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. Th...
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 advanci...
The Lead Local Collaborative
Lead Local is a collaborative initiative that unites leaders in community organizing,...
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 professio...
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 leve...
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 equit...
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 co...
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...
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...
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,...
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 understan...
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 tradit...
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 Foun...
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...
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...
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 guid...
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-build...
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 im...
Power-building Resources – Human Impact Partners
The “Bridging Partnerships and Strategies” resource from Health In Partnership focuses on fostering collaboration between governmental public h...
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 h...
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 equit...
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...
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,...
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 co...

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 shift...

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 ho...

Bridging Partnerships and Strategies
This resource focuses on building deep partnerships between government public health departments and community organizers to advance health equity, community...

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

Together Toward Health: Amplifying Impact Through Collaborative Partnerships
This resource explores how the Public Health Institute Together Toward Health initiative built partnerships with over 500 community-based organizations to in...

Public Health Accreditation Board: Transformation Guide
This resource is about guiding public health systems through a transformative process to enhance equity, capacity, and community well-being by adopting innov...

School Health: Aligning Frameworks
This resource provides a comprehensive guide to the Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child (WSCC) model, emphasizing the integration of education and hea...

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 explo...

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 t...

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 incl...

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, colla...

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 in...

Reimagining Public Health Advocacy
This resource explores the potential for stronger partnerships between public health NGOs and community power-building organizations (CPBOs) to address healt...

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...

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 a...

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...

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 recommenda...

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, particula...

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, focusin...

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 e...

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...

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 determina...

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 lev...

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,...

Applied Epidemiology Competencies Evaluation
This resource provides evaluation tools for assessing knowledge, skills, and abilities across the seven domains of the Applied Epidemiology Competencies (AEC...

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 He...

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...

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-1...

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 dispari...

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, ai...

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...

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...

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 focu...

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....

Tribal Epidemiology Toolkit
This toolkit provides resources and best practices to promote population health among tribal communities by enhancing public health surveillance in Indian Co...