NACCHO has recently launched a Health Equity and Social Justice 101 Training Series to increase the knowledge and inform the practices of local health departments and their multi-sector partners on health equity and social justice (HESJ) principles, key concepts, and applications.

HESJ 101 Training: Part I The Politics of Health Inequity features Dr. Richard Hofrichter discussing how structural racism and class oppression are implicated as root causes of health inequities as well as strategies for acting upon root causes.

HESJ 101 Training: Part II Intersectionality discusses intersectionality, a framework for understanding how multiple social identities (i.e. race, gender, class) intersect and are experienced at the individual level and reflect interlocking systems of privilege and oppression at the structural level, as well as applications for public health practice.

HESJ 101 Training: Part III Stories from the Field features local public health practitioners discussing how to embed health equity and social justice into public health practice.

Contact Jasmine Akuffo at NACCHO with any questions.