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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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  • On June 26, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a 6-3 ruling that preserves free preventive care under the Affordable Care Act, a popular benefit that helps approximately 150 million Americans stay healthy.The case, Kennedy v. Braidwood, was the fourth major legal challenge to the Affordable Care Act. The decision, written by Justice Brett Kavanaugh with the support of Justices Amy Coney…
    July 2025
    Policy & Law, Services & Programs, Systemic Determinants
  • There is no denying that politics affect health, playing a crucial role in shaping health equity. Political engagement for health equity involves collaborative, evidence-based, and non-partisan advocacy to address systemic barriers and advance policies that promote equitable health outcomes. It emphasizes bridging divides, fostering systemic change, and empowering marginalized communities to…
    January 2025
    Advocacy, Policy & Law, Social/Structural Determinants
  • There are numerous ongoing and emerging threats to health equity, such as climate change, artificial intelligence, lack of access to insurance, and disparities in exposure to adverse childhood experiences which can impact health for a lifetime. The P4HE Collaborative emphasizes the importance of understanding these threats to health equity and addressing them through cross-sector collaboration.…
    January 2025
    Climate Change
  • As is our democratic tradition, we held an election to choose the next president of the United States and members of Congress. We know that some votes are still being counted, but we also know there will be a new administration. This election and the last few years have been characterized by intense political polarization, with Americans seemingly more divided than ever before on many important…
    November 2024
    Policy and Practice
  • This interactive dashboard provides KFF’s insights from AP VoteCast election polling of the 2024 election, focusing on how abortion, including abortion-related ballot measures, and other health care issues have played into voters’ decisions.KFF examined the role that abortion policy and abortion-related state ballot initiatives, as well as the economy and health care costs, played in the 2024…
    November 2024
    Abortion Access
  • Voters in seven states in the 2024 election approved measures to protect access to abortion, continuing a streak nationwide that brought together voters from both parties and in red, blue and purple states to support reproductive freedom.Abortion is an LGBTQ issue. LGBTQ people can and do become pregnant and need reproductive health care. The same activists pushing anti-abortion laws also fought…
    November 2024
    Abortion, Abortion Access
  • When President-Elect Donald Trump takes office again, in January, sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) will face unprecedented threats from the federal level. The second Trump administration will not only reenact many hostile policies from the first but also almost certainly expand its assaults on SRHR in the United States and abroad. Guided by the detailed agenda for dismantling…
    November 2024
    Reproductive/Sexual Health
  • The Trevor Project, the leading suicide prevention and crisis intervention organization for LGBTQ+ young people, shared that its classic crisis services (lifeline, chat, text) began to experience significant increases in volume towards the end of election night.Update from The Trevor Project: Thank you for looking into The Trevor Project’s increased volume of crisis contacts, which was data our…
    November 2024
    Mental/Behavioral Health
  • When it comes to the effects that the upcoming Trump presidency will have on healthcare, attendees' attitudes ranged from cautiously optimistic to fairly anxious. Some of the issues they highlighted included mental health parity, telehealth prescribing flexibilities, and the role of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (author introduction)
    November 2024
    Mental/Behavioral Health
  • Former President Donald Trump’s election victory and coming return to the White House will likely bring changes that scale back the nation’s public health insurance programs — potentially increasing the uninsured rate, while imposing new barriers to abortion and other reproductive care.The reverberations will be felt far beyond Washington, D.C. and could include an erosion of the Affordable Care…
    November 2024
    Policy & Law
  • Former President Trump won the presidential election, which will unleash a new era in health care policy as his campaign’s “Make America Healthy Again” movement takes power. Read more from Sarah Owermohle about what a Trump presidency would mean for health care.During his election night speech, Trump reiterated his promise to give Robert F. Kennedy Jr. a role on health care policy in his new…
    November 2024
    Policy & Law
  • President-elect Donald Trump is expected to maintain his strong stance on deregulation and prioritize policies that address healthcare access and costs. Looking ahead, the Trump administration intends to uphold campaign promises for the health sector with four key themes:Promote access to healthcare via market competition and transparencyEnhance flexibility and choice in healthcare to states and…
    November 2024
    Policy & Law
  • By focusing on integrating care teams, expanding community programs, and addressing SDoH through policy reform, we can create a healthcare system that serves all patients — especially those most in need. (author introduction) 
    November 2024
    Policy & Law, Environmental/Community Health
  • When talking about health, one often fails to consider the many ways the various aspects of our lives play a part in its progression. Health is a matter of wellbeing in every context, therefore it’s important to emphasize the role that key institutions play in promoting health equity. Unions, for example, are prominent drivers of health equity that people often don’t think about. However, the…
    November 2024
    Policy and Practice
  • Despite polling consistently showing that voters are deeply concerned about medical care and its costs, neither Donald Trump nor Kamala Harris is offering a sweeping vision of health care reform. (author introduction)
    November 2024
    Health Reform
  • An agreement to set nations’ obligations when the next pandemic comes, billions in contributions to international disease control efforts, even U.S. membership in the World Health Organization: Those are the main stakes for global health in tomorrow’s election, according to health policy analysts. (author introduction)  
    November 2024
    Policy & Law
  • On the campaign trail, both former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris are eager to portray themselves as guardians of Medicare. Each presidential candidate accuses the other of backing spending cuts and other policies that would damage the health insurance program for older Americans.But the election’s outcome could alter the very nature of the nearly 60-year-old federal…
    November 2024
    Policy & Law
  • The U.S. presidential election is days away, and the polls show the candidates are in a statistical dead heat. The outcome is unknown — even to the experts, who say it could be the tightest race “in a generation.” For public health, the election matters deeply. (author introduction)
    November 2024
    Policy and Practice
  • On May 3, 2024, the Biden-Harris Administration published new regulations extending eligibility for Affordable Care Act (ACA) Marketplace coverage to Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients. Under these regulations, the definition of lawfully present will newly include DACA recipients for the purposes of eligibility to purchase coverage through the ACA Marketplaces and to receive…
    October 2024
    Policy & Law
  • Medicaid has announced a two-year pilot program which covers traditional Native American healing practices in four states. The author explores the program through the lens of one Native American who recovered from addiction in a Native-led treatment house.
    October 2024
    Illness/Disease/Injury/Wellbeing, Substance Use and Misuse, Medicaid
  • Despite spending more on healthcare than any other nation, the U.S. is the lowest or second-lowest-ranking country when it comes to measures such as access, equity and outcomes, according to a new Commonwealth Fund analysis.And the U.S. ranked last overall among 10 countries when factoring in all of those metrics. The top-performing countries this year are Australia, the Netherlands and the…
    October 2024
    Policy & Law
  • The Election 2024 series from the Public Health On Call podcast looks at what’s top of mind for public health experts for this election across topics such as health policy, preventing gun violence, legislating reproductive health, and immigration. (author introduction) 
    October 2024
    Policy & Law
  • The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals recently allowed Florida’s ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth to go back into effect. In a dissenting opinion, Judge Charles Wilson stated, “This matter is a medical issue, where patients are best left to make decisions alongside health professionals, with access to complete, unbiased information, as needed.” Wilson’s words demonstrate how bans…
    September 2024
    Advocacy
  • Substance use disorder (SUD) is a treatable and “complex condition that involves a problematic pattern of substance use”. Recovery services are important to treating substance use disorders and for positive behavior change. These services can include detoxification, cognitive or behavioral therapy, and medication-assisted therapy in an inpatient, outpatient, or long-term sober living community…
    August 2024
    Substance Use and Misuse
  • Youth may experience “inequitable, unsafe, or unhealthy conditions” in their work and communities. Young people also have fresh perspectives, creativity, energy, and optimism, which makes them valuable contributors to their societies. Getting youth involved in shaping systems and structures which affect health may address the upstream causes of poor health and inequities. Supporting youth…
    August 2024
    Social/Structural Determinants

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