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To expand use of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), interventions to increase PrEP awareness, should encourage health care providers...
Sep 19, 2019 | Kim Rodgers
To improve the health and well-being of communities oppressed by racism and white supremacy, advocates for justice need to challenge...
Jul 30, 2019 | Kim Rodgers
This guide from the Government Alliance and Race and Equity (GARE) is meant to serve as a toolkit for informal and formal...
Jul 29, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
NACCHO released two new Health in All Policies (HiAP) success stories: Boston Public Health Commission (BPHC): The goal of BHPC’s...
Jul 07, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
NACCHO is hosting a Health in All Policies (HiAP) webinar series for local health departments. The goal of the webinar series is to...
Jul 02, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
NACCHO released a Health in All Policies success story from the Boston Public Health Commission (BPHC). The goal of BHPC’s...
Jun 27, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
By Tina Yuen and Patrick Glass, ChangeLab Solutions Complete streets is the concept of designing streets so that all people—no matter...
Apr 23, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
A recent study published in PNAS was the first to establish a pollution inequity metric that quantifies the disproportionate burden on...
Mar 25, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
By: Judi Jennings, Special Project Director, Louisville, KY The Special Project recently completed a health impact assessment (HIA)...
Sep 21, 2018 | Michelle Shapiro
To expand use of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), interventions to increase PrEP awareness, should encourage health care providers to discuss PrEP, destigmatize PrEP use, and promote racial/ethnic equity in PrEP access. PrEP is a daily oral pill that reduces the risk for sexual acquisition of HIV by about 99% when taken daily as prescribed.
To improve the health and well-being of communities oppressed by racism and white supremacy, advocates for justice need to challenge some deeply held cultural assumptions, values, and practices. This prerogative raises a series of questions: How can we disrupt the narratives that perpetuate racism and white privilege? What counternarratives and stories need to be told […]
This guide from the Government Alliance and Race and Equity (GARE) is meant to serve as a toolkit for informal and formal communications about your jurisdiction’s work toward racial equity. Communicating about race and structural racial inequities can feel like a challenge, but it doesn’t have to be. GARE learned and developed many best practices […]
NACCHO released two new Health in All Policies (HiAP) success stories: Boston Public Health Commission (BPHC): The goal of BHPC’s Health Equity in All Policies initiative, led by the BPHC Office of Health Equity, is to better equip city departments to address racial justice and health equity issues within their sectors. Florida Department of Health in […]
NACCHO is hosting a Health in All Policies (HiAP) webinar series for local health departments. The goal of the webinar series is to provide an open, informal space for dialogue and peer-to-peer sharing about challenges and best practices. The webinars take place on the second Wednesday of the month, and each month has a different […]
NACCHO released a Health in All Policies success story from the Boston Public Health Commission (BPHC). The goal of BHPC’s Health Equity in All Policies initiative, led by the BPHC Office of Health Equity, is to better equip city departments to address racial justice and health equity issues within their sectors. Read more.
By Tina Yuen and Patrick Glass, ChangeLab Solutions Complete streets is the concept of designing streets so that all people—no matter if they’re walking, bicycling, using public transportation, driving, or mobility impaired—can safely and easily get where they’re going. Complete streets improve health, safety, and economic opportunities for communities. Neighborhood Differences Picture your...
A recent study published in PNAS was the first to establish a pollution inequity metric that quantifies the disproportionate burden on black and Hispanic Americans from air pollution caused mainly by white Americans’ consumption of goods and services. This is the significance of the study from the authors: “Racial–ethnic disparities in pollution exposure and in consumption […]
By: Judi Jennings, Special Project Director, Louisville, KY The Special Project recently completed a health impact assessment (HIA) demonstrating how public health leaders, artists and criminal justice reformers can work together to assess how parental incarceration harms children’s health. The HIA and health equity framework proved to be important tools for proposed policy change; art and...
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