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The Partners for Advancing Health Equity (P4HE) Resource Library is a virtual portal containing action-oriented health equity research, practice, and policies. The library aims to increase equity in health by offering free access to field-tested, evidence-informed and evidence-based programs strategies and high-quality research.


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  • If you want to engage effectively with participants important initial decisions should not be made without their input. What are the critical problems and priorities? Who or what can offer important insights about the background and context? Engaging with stakeholders is central to action research, and valuable in any study, whether qualitative or quantitative. This lively webinar offered the…
    September 2022
    Community-rooted/Participatory Research
  • How do you know if your organization or programs are achieving the impact you seek? How do you figure out how to get better at what you do? Performance measurement isn’t solely a yardstick for success—it’s also a tool for learning and decision making that helps you improve.Indeed, the greatest value of performance measurement is in its power to help leaders figure out how their organizations can…
    September 2022
    Community-rooted/Participatory Research
  • The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated longstanding racial disparities in health in the United States and highlighted the need to address inequities across a range of health system functions. All countries face their own unique inequities in health status or in the distribution of health care resources among different population groups. We looked at how eight high-income countries (Australia,…
    September 2022
    Health Reform
  • As health care institutions push to address health equity, the underlying assumption is that all that is needed is more internal work; that institutions can simply hold themselves accountable. While this is a necessary component, it is insufficient. As evidenced by the persistence of health inequities, there also needs to be strong mechanisms by which others–including employees, patients,…
    September 2022
    Policy and Practice
  • The growing centering of equity in health has elevated a conversation about how those interests should translate within the systems and sectors that influence health. In particular, the public health data system has been relatively limited in capturing the drivers and consequences of health inequity as well as the varying dimensions of equity. This article examines what it means to use equity as…
    September 2022
    Health Reform, Environment/Context
  • Population-specific data gaps for a range of demographic characteristics, including race, ethnicity, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, and disability status, inhibit efforts to protect and improve public health. To identify system and policy levers for addressing these data inequities, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) convened five expert panels to inform deliberations of the…
    September 2022
    Community-rooted/Participatory Research
  • Introduction: States' approaches to addressing prenatal substance use are widely heterogeneous, ranging from supportive policies that enhance access to substance use disorder (SUD) treatment to punitive policies that criminalize prenatal substance use. We studied the effect of these prenatal substance use policies (PSUPs) on medications for opioid use disorder (OUD) treatment, including…
    September 2022
    Maternal/Child Health, Substance Use and Misuse
  • More than 50 years since the first White House Conference on Food, Nutrition, and Health, the U.S. has yet to end hunger and is facing an urgent, nutrition-related health crisis—the rising prevalence of diet-related diseases such as type 2 diabetes, obesity, hypertension, and certain cancers. The consequences of food insecurity and diet-related diseases are significant, far reaching, and…
    September 2022
    Services & Programs
  • Practitioners describe how collaboration among state agencies and local organizations help address longstanding inequities. State agency staff members and leaders of nonprofit social service organizations report multiple advantages to using a cross-sector approach to address health inequities—preventable differences in the burden of disease, injury, violence, or opportunities to achieve…
    August 2022
    Community-rooted/Participatory Research
  • Structural racism causes stark health inequities and operates at every level of society, including the academic and governmental entities that support health research and practice. We argue that health research institutions must invest in research that actively disrupts racial hierarchies, with leadership from racially marginalized communities and scholars.We highlight synergies between…
    August 2022
    Community-rooted/Participatory Research, Racism
  • In this episode of the series, Pathways to Health Equity, we speak with Dr. Paula Braveman, Professor of Family and Community Medicine and Founding Director of the Center for Health Equity at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), about her life experiences and their influence on her path in the field as well as her thoughts on the past, present, and future state of health equity.…
    August 2022
    Systemic Determinants
  • This article explores how poetry can contribute to public health. It includes the history of Black poetry and music which can contribute to health promotion. 
    August 2022
    Advocacy
  • Variety, as they say, is the spice of life. If diversity is another word for variety, how can it enhance or flavor the world?Diversity—through the lenses of race, ethnicity, ability, gender, sexual orientation, neurodiversity, and beyond—can help to strengthen organizations, as studies have shown time and again. Quite simply, diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) is used to describe three values…
    August 2022
    Isms and Phobias
  • Organized by Partners for Advancing Health Equity (P4HE Collaborative), the Violence Prevention Institute at Tulane University, with the support of the Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine Alumni Relations Office, this panel discussion highlighted the issues, policies, and practices around gun violence and the need to broaden the lens for implementing preventative…
    August 2022
    Gun Violence/Firearms, Policy and Practice
  • Evidence shows that social determinants of health (SDOH) are key drivers of diabetes outcomes and disparities in diabetes care. Targeting SDOH at the individual, organizational, and policy levels is an essential step in improving health equity for individuals living with diabetes. In addition, there is increasing recognition of the need to build collaboration across the health care system and…
    August 2022
    Diabetes, Social Environment
  • The United States signed the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (“ICERD” or “Convention”) in 1966. President Lyndon Johnson’s administration noted at the time that the United States “has not always measured up to its constitutional heritage of equality for all” but that it was “on the march” toward compliance.[1] The United States finally ratified…
    August 2022
    Racism
  • This resource pack was curated by the Global Health Education and Learning Incubator to examine the gun violence epidemic and its public health implications in the United States. This collection of resources assesses the prevalence of gun violence in the U.S., comparative policy and legislation between the U.S. and other countries, violence in schools, mass shootings, and intentional and…
    August 2022
    Gun Violence/Firearms, Social Environment
  • Hospitals, health systems, and health plans have long been at the heart of the health care ecosystem. But as consumers move closer to the center, trusted organizations in the community are beginning to play a more significant role in health care. Community-based health ecosystems can extend the reach of traditional health stakeholders, help instill trust, and break down barriers to ensure that…
    August 2022
    Physical Environment, Social Environment, Preparedness
  • The Rockefeller Foundation announces the launch of the Vaccination Action Network (VAN), a USD$7.4 million locally-led, peer-to-peer learning initiative designed to engage public health decision-makers across sub-Saharan Africa and bolster their efforts to strengthen health systems while scaling up Covid-19 vaccine demand strategies. (author introduction)
    August 2022
    COVID-19/Coronavirus, Vaccine Access and Uptake, Global Health
  • This document provides information on respectful and person-first language for inclusive communication. 
    August 2022
    Communication
  • The United States has a long history of occupational safety and health (OSH) research, policy, and intervention. Despite this, long-standing occupational health inequities continue, with underserved workers experiencing higher rates of injury and illness. Occupational Health Equity Program researchers at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) recently wrote a commentary…
    August 2022
    Services & Programs
  • In-hospital substance use is common among patients with addiction because of undertreated withdrawal, undertreated pain, negative feelings, and stigma. Health care system responses to in-hospital substance use often perpetuate stigma and criminalization of people with addiction, long etched into our culture by the racist War on Drugs. In this commentary, we describe how our hospital convened an…
    August 2022
    Substance Use and Misuse, Policy and Practice
  • Over the last 57 years, health centers have grown to become the cornerstone of community-based primary health care in the United States. By integrating medical, dental, behavioral, and other health care services, health centers provide patients the right care, at the right time, in the right place. (author introduction) #P4HEwebinarNovember2022
    August 2022
    Services & Programs
  • Takeaways: Sharing data across state agencies and community-based organizations is critical for advancing health equity and addressing complex health challenges that involve multiple sectors. Including individuals with lived expertise in data sharing and policy development can make these efforts more responsive to the needs of community members, particularly those in historically marginalized…
    August 2022
    Community-rooted/Participatory Research, Interventions
  • In this episode of the series, Pathways to Health Equity, we speak with Dr. Sherman James, the Susan B. King Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Public Policy in the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University, about growing up in the Deep South, firsthand experiences during the civil rights movement, and other circumstances that put him on the path of health justice, establishing him as a…
    July 2022
    Community-rooted/Participatory Research, Environmental Injustice

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