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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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- In twelve months, what victories has our movement managed to secure in the face of growing opposition and the rise of the far right? These victories for sexual and reproductive rights and health are the result of relentless grassroots work and advocacy by our Member Associations, in partnership with community organizations, allied politicians, and the mobilization of public opinion. Together, as…December 2024Reproductive/Sexual Health, Advocacy
- Abortion is on the ballot in the 2024 US presidential election. After the Dobbs decision overturned Roe v. Wade, numerous states have voted on ballot initiatives to expand or restrict access to abortion—with seven states voting on such measures in November. But hundreds of millions of women who live in countries that receive global health aid from the United States will also be affected by the…October 2024Abortion, Abortion Access , Global Health
- This webpage lists common reactions to disasters, tips for coping, and additional resources. #P4HEwebinarJune2024January 2024Mental/Behavioral Health, Disasters
- COVAX was a historic multilateral effort co-led by Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI), the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF from 2020 through 2023. During the COVID-19 pandemic, COVAX aimed to accelerate the development and manufacture of COVID-19 vaccines and to guarantee fair and equitable access for every country in the world. COVAX…December 2023Vaccines
- Over the last decade, progress on achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to reduce maternal deaths, stillbirths, and newborn deaths has stagnated. Recent global estimates indicate a combined 4.5 million deaths in 2020, including 0.29 million maternal deaths, 1.9 million stillbirths, and 2.3 million newborn deaths, with a majority occurring in sub-Saharan Africa, Central Asia, and…June 2023Maternal/Child Health, Global Health
- Purpose: Mental health inequalities across social identities/positions during the COVID-19 pandemic have been mostly reported independently from each other or in a limited way (e.g., at the intersection between age and sex or gender). We aim to provide an inclusive socio-demographic mapping of different mental health measures in the population using quantitative methods that are consistent with…January 2023Communicable Disease, Mental/Behavioral Health
- This article outlines the ongoing challenges and efforts in addressing HIV among young people, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. It highlights the work of the Elton John AIDS Foundation and its partnership with Triggerise’s “In Their Hands” program in Mombasa, Kenya. The article demonstrates how the Tiko app is effectively connecting adolescents to sexual and reproductive health services by…January 2023Reproductive/Sexual Health, Global Health
- This press release discusses Ghana's institution of new digital technology, such as tablets, to aid the capture of immunization data as well as the digitization of the country's health system.December 2022COVID-19/Coronavirus, Global Health
- A two-year partnership will support deployment of digital tools and data analytics in Jamaica, Mali, Tanzania, Thailand, Uganda, and Zambia.December 2022Vaccine Access and Uptake, Global Health
- 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 2022COVID-19/Coronavirus, Vaccine Access and Uptake, Global Health
- The first meeting of G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors under the Indonesian Presidency was held on 17 and 18 February 2022. The communique requested the WHO and WB, and implementing partners work further with countries to report on obstacles to, and accelerate, vaccine deployment strategies to get more COVID-19 shots into arms. This report, produced to answer that request, has been…April 2022Vaccine Access and Uptake
- Sharing stories is powerful. Just recently, 60 Minutes featured how One Small Step is helping bridge political divides through face-to-face-conversations. The program grew out of StoryCorps, a former WKKF grantee that captures unscripted conversations between people across the U.S. The 60 Minutes story mentioned Albert Sykes, a Community Leadership Network Class Two fellow from Mississippi, who…April 2022COVID-19/Coronavirus, Community-rooted/Participatory Research
- This report details COVID GAP's strategy for shifting the world’s response to the pandemic from emergency crisis management to a sustainable control strategy.March 2022COVID-19/Coronavirus
- This webpage connects Stanford clinicians to the world, working with local partners to expand clinical and research capacity, enabling them to solve their health problems, and enriching our research and practice. The Center emphasizes one emerging challenge at a time, currently the challenge of refugees and civilians in conflict. The Stanford Refugee Research Program, Himalayan Cataract Project,…January 2022Illness/Disease/Injury/Wellbeing, Environment/Context
- This document is structured to provide a brief overview of the collective Lived Experience workforce and Lived Experience work, followed by the essentials of position descriptions that authentically represent Lived Experience practice. A detailed guide to Lived Experience roles and position description development is provided, along with examples and practical considerations from Lived Experience…December 2021Mental/Behavioral Health, Policy and Practice
- In the United States, despite significant investment and the efforts of multiple maternal health stakeholders, maternal mortality (MM) has reemerged since 1987 and MM disparity has persisted since 1935. This article provides a review of the U.S. MM trajectory throughout its history up to its current state. From this longitudinal perspective, MM trends and themes are evaluated within a global…February 2021Maternal Morbidity and Mortality
- The four leading international health and humanitarian organizations announced today the establishment of a global Ebola vaccine stockpile to ensure outbreak response.The effort to establish the stockpile was led by the International Coordinating Group (ICG) on Vaccine Provision, which includes the World Health Organization (WHO), UNICEF, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent…January 2021Vaccines
- This data and its corresponding visualizations illustrate the average age that a newborn would likely live to, if he/she were affected by the sex- and age-specific death rates linked to the time of his/her birth, for a specific year and country/territory/geographic area. This is an important measurement since life expectancy at birth points to a population's overall mortality level.December 2020Maternal/Child Health, Aging and Life Course
- Africa will need urgent intervention post-COVID-19 in strengthening the health system, the economy, and issues related to debt. Firstly, this crisis is revealing deep structural deficiencies in our health infrastructure. It cannot be that only the elite, the rich, can get the best health services where they are offered. Secondly, this pandemic will shatter economies. In tourism, for example,…May 2020COVID-19/Coronavirus, Advocacy, Global Health
- One in five Americans lives in a rural area, including about 18 million women of reproductive age, but key indicators, including mortality figures, show that the health of mothers and children in these communities lags behind that of their urban peers and is worsening. Nationwide, child mortality rates have declined over the past decade, but recent research shows that improvement among infants…February 2020Maternal/Child Health
- When comparing suicide in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (Indigenous) population to that in the non-Indigenous populations of Australia, there are significant differences in the rates of suicide and the age groups at risk of suicide. The etiology of these differences includes a history of colonisation and its aftermath including a burden of intergenerational trauma in the Indigenous…September 2017Suicide, Social/Structural Determinants, Historical Trauma, Systemic Determinants
- Nutrition is one of the most important contributors to human health. In addition to managing weight, blood pressure and cholesterol, a healthy diet can help prevent and manage of a number of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) such as diabetes, heart disease, stroke, and some cancers. We predict that by 2030, NCDs will account for almost three-quarters of all deaths worldwide, so ensuring people have…March 2016Illness/Disease/Injury/Wellbeing, Maternal/Child Health
- The United Nations’ first Every Woman Every Child strategy, Global Strategy for Women’s and Children’s Health, provided an impetus “to improve the health of hundreds of millions of women and children around the world and, in so doing, to improve the lives of all people.” The updated Global Strategy for Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents' Health calls for an even more ambitious agenda of…September 2015Illness/Disease/Injury/Wellbeing
- This report argues that chronic diseases is the leading causes of death in Ontario and that many of these diseases are preventable with the right interventions and public policy. The report presents a range of options to prevent chronic diseases, including reducing tobacco use and alcohol consumption, improving physical activity and health eating opportunities, and building whole-of-government…March 2012Chronic Disease
- Today, there are approximately 5.2 million Native Americans living in the United States (Infoplease, 2011), of which 2.1 million are under the age of twenty-four (American Fact Finder, 2010). For those who belong to one of the 565 federally-recognized Indian tribes, the federal government has definite legal, treaty and trust obligations to provide these individuals health care, education, public…November 2011Depression, Suicide
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