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The Praxis Project has launched the ‘Centering Community in Public Health’ initiative. Over the past three years, Praxis...
Mar 04, 2020 | Kim Rodgers
The Fenway Institute released a new report that outlines considerations for working with people who are incarcerated and identify as...
Feb 27, 2020 | Kim Rodgers
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF)-NRPA Award for Health Equity recognizes an individual, or team of no more than two...
Feb 21, 2020 | Michelle Shapiro
The National Center for Health in Public Housing is hosting a learning collaborative webinar series on “Exploring Cultural...
Feb 19, 2020 | Kim Rodgers
By putting equity at the center of municipal policies, American cities can help create a future of shared prosperity in which all can...
Jan 13, 2020 | Michelle Shapiro
Advocates for Youth has announced an opportunity for community-based organizations to receive capacity-building assistance through...
Oct 29, 2019 | Kim Rodgers
The Guardian is launching a year-long series, Our Unequal Earth, investigating environmental injustices: how ecological hazards and...
Oct 22, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
A new book, “Bridging Silos: Collaborating for Environmental Health and Justice in Urban Communities,” examines ways that community...
Sep 23, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
The Commonwealth Fund Fellowship in Minority Health Policy at Harvard University is pleased to announce the call for applications for...
Sep 12, 2019 | Kim Rodgers
The Praxis Project has launched the ‘Centering Community in Public Health’ initiative. Over the past three years, Praxis held Learning Circles with over 100 community-based organizations to collectively tackle the challenges of advancing health justice and racial equity and to identify critical elements of authentic engagement. Basebuilding community organizers employ best practices...
The Fenway Institute released a new report that outlines considerations for working with people who are incarcerated and identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex (LGBTI), or gender non-conforming. The report outlines recommendations on a range of topics with an emphasis on cultural competency while working with LGBTI populations. One component of the report is […]
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF)-NRPA Award for Health Equity recognizes an individual, or team of no more than two individuals, who has successfully implemented a systems change approach to reduce health disparities in his/her community within the past two years. The award supports RWJF’s Culture of Health initiative that seeks to ensure that everyone […]
The National Center for Health in Public Housing is hosting a learning collaborative webinar series on “Exploring Cultural Competence and Humility in the Care of HIV Patients.” This training is designed to help move organizations past cultural stereotypes and biases (e.g., based on race, sexual orientation, gender identity) to offer client-centered services with cultural humility....
By putting equity at the center of municipal policies, American cities can help create a future of shared prosperity in which all can participate and thrive. The All-In Cities Toolkit from PolicyLink offers actionable strategies that advocates and policymakers can use to advance racial equity. Each tool contains information on important policy considerations, who can implement it, […]
Advocates for Youth has announced an opportunity for community-based organizations to receive capacity-building assistance through their Queer & Gender Equity Project (QGEP). The QGEP supports organizations interested in and committed to improving the sexual health of all young people, including LGBTQ youth of color.
The Guardian is launching a year-long series, Our Unequal Earth, investigating environmental injustices: how ecological hazards and climate disasters have the harshest impacts on people of color, native tribes and those on low incomes. The introductory article features five luminaries of the movement explaining “environmental justice” in their own words.
A new book, “Bridging Silos: Collaborating for Environmental Health and Justice in Urban Communities,” examines ways that community groups, government agencies, academic institutions, and private institutions each play a role in addressing environmental health issues and how they can collaborate to address environmental health disparities.
The Commonwealth Fund Fellowship in Minority Health Policy at Harvard University is pleased to announce the call for applications for the 2020-2021 year. At the Harvard Medical School, Boston, applications are now being accepted for a one-year, degree-granting, full-time fellowship beginning July 2020.
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