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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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  • During the COVID-19 pandemic, young adults represented one of the groups with the highest number of COVID-19 infections but experienced less severe symptoms and lower rates of mortality. The Georgia Peers for Equity Against COVID-19 and for Health (Georgia PEACH) was developed to address COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among African American/Black and Latinx young adults (18–25) on college campuses…
    July 2025
    COVID-19/Coronavirus, Communication
  • 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
  • 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
  • In this episode we speak to Dr. Melody Goodman, Interim Dean, Professor of Biostatistics, Director, Center for Anti-racism, Social Justice & Public Health, New York University. We cover her childhood living in Jamaica Queens, New York, and her unconventional career journey that led her to biostatistics and academia. We also discuss the importance of mentorship and her approach to mentoring…
    September 2024
    Community-rooted/Participatory Research
  • Data are a cornerstone for efforts to advance health equity. How we ask for, analyze, and report information on race and ethnicity affects our ability to understand the racial and ethnic composition of our nation’s population and our ability to identify and address racial disparities in health and health care. The accuracy and precision of such data have important implications for identifying…
    April 2024
    Policy and Practice
  • The Ways of Knowing Symposia is a series of five collaborative events focused on cultivating a more holistic appreciation of the different ways people understand the world and fostering a more inclusive and equitable standard for rigor in health research. This video is a recording of the first session, the Ways of Knowing Symposia Kickoff, a hybrid event held on March 7th in New Orleans,…
    March 2024
    Services & Programs
  • Black and Brown maternal health disparities are rooted in historical health policies limiting power and reproductive decision-making in the United States. From anti-Black racism in the field of obstetrics and gynecology and policies such as the Sheppard–Towner Act of 1921 in the American South, to xenophobia through the forced sterilization of non-English speaking mothers in the 20th and 21st…
    February 2024
    Maternal/Child Health, Policy and Practice
  • Societal systems act individually and in concert to create and perpetuate structural racism through both policies and practices at the local, state, and federal levels that, in turn, generate racial health disparities. Both current and historical policy approaches across multiple sectors including but not limited to housing, employment, health insurance, immigration and criminal legal, have the…
    February 2024
    Policy & Law
  • The statistics around Black maternal health in the United States remain unsettling. In the U.S., Black women are three to four times more likely to die from pregnancy-related causes than white women. Black women are also two times more likely to experience severe maternal morbidity and 1.5 times more likely to have a preterm delivery, compared to their white counterparts. There are various…
    January 2024
    Maternal/Child Health, Policy and Practice
  • Racial and ethnic minoritized uninsured populations in the United States face the greatest barriers to accessing mental healthcare. Historically, systems of care in the U.S. were set up using inadequate evidence at the federal, state, and local levels, driving inequities in access to quality care for minoritized populations. These inequities are most evident in community-based mental health…
    January 2024
    Mental/Behavioral Health, Policy & Law
  • This timeline offers a historical view of significant U.S. federal policies and events spanning the early 1800s to today that have influenced present-day health disparities. It covers policies that directly impacted health coverage and access to care, relevant events in medicine, social and economic policies and developments that influence health, and efforts to tackle inequalities. Some events…
    January 2024
    Policy and Practice, Social/Structural Determinants
  • Health inequities impact more than just an individual’s health, they can have a lasting effect on various aspects of a society or community, including wide-reaching economic impacts. Health inequities exist for racial and ethnic minorities, and persons with lower educational attainment due to differential exposure to economic, social, structural, and environmental health risks and limited access…
    December 2023
    Policy and Practice
  • Living with intersectional identities, having a disability, and being a member of a racial or ethnic minoritized group in the U.S., contributes to marginalization that may result in health disparities and health inequities. The purpose of this scoping review is to describe health research regarding adult racial/ethnic minoritized individuals in the U.S with intellectual and developmental…
    October 2023
    Policy and Practice
  • Racial disparities in health are among the most disconcerting forms of inequity in the United States. Divergent health outcomes between Americans racialized as White and those racialized as Black, Latinx, and Indigenous do not stem from biological or genetic differences. To the contrary, “race” comes to have concrete consequences through social, economic, and political systems. Yet the political…
    October 2023
    Advocacy, Community-rooted/Participatory Research, Systemic Determinants, Healthy Housing, Racism
  • At Rare And Black, our mission is to empower and uplift Black patients living with rare disorders by raising awareness, promoting advocacy, driving legislative change, and improving access to crucial resources. Through unwavering dedication and collaborative efforts, we strive to eliminate the disparities and inequities faced by these individuals, ensuring they receive the support and care they…
    October 2023
    Advocacy
  • Since the repeal of Roe v. Wade, thousands of clinicians and advocates who support abortion access have been playing defense on two critical fronts. Not only do they have to make sense of confusing state laws that limit necessary reproductive health care, but they also must counter false claims about abortion that some worry may lead to a higher maternal mortality rate.Inaccurate medical…
    September 2023
    Reproductive/Sexual Health, Policy and Practice
  • REACH is a national program administered by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to reduce racial and ethnic health disparities. REACH celebrated its 20th anniversary in 2019. Through REACH, recipients plan and carry out local, culturally appropriate programs to address a wide range of health issues among Black or African American, Hispanic or Latino, Asian, American Indian,…
    September 2023
    Services & Programs
  • As described throughout this report, racial, ethnic, and tribal health inequities are created and sustained by factors both inside and outside of the health care system. However, health is strongly tied to the health care system—a healthy population requires access to high-quality, comprehensive, affordable, timely, respectful, and culturally appropriate health care. The health care system serves…
    July 2023
    Policy & Law
  • The National Indian Health Board (NIHB) provides support and policy expertise to Tribal Advisory Committees, which are established to enhance the government to government relationship, honor Federal trust responsibilities and obligations to Tribes and American Indian and Alaska Native people, and increase understanding between federally-recognized Tribes and federal agencies. (author introduction…
    July 2023
    Interventions
  • From 2018–2020, 19 states enacted Medicaid work requirements as a strategy for reducing program enrollment and overall cost. While these requirements were later rescinded, strategies to reduce Medicaid costs are likely to reemerge as states attempt to recover economically from the COVID-19 pandemic. Here, we evaluated the impact of Medicaid work requirements on adults aged > 50, a group that…
    July 2023
    Medicaid
  • From a public health perspective, the organizational definition acknowledges that health literacy is connected to health equity. Health equity is the attainment of the highest level of health for all people. We will achieve health equity when everyone has the opportunity to be as healthy as possible. (author abstract) 
    July 2023
    Services & Programs
  • In this episode, we speak to Dr. Harold “Woody” Neighbors, Senior Advisor for public health research and Research Professor with Tulane’s School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, about his life experiences that led him to study the intersection of socio-political determinants and behavioral response in producing racial disparities in disease. We discuss several aspects of his work,…
    June 2023
    Mental/Behavioral Health, Policy and Practice, Social/Structural Determinants
  • Most agree health disparities are a moral problem. Yet there are disagreements about how to reduce them. Some believe that in health systems, equity and efficiency are incompatible, requiring  stark and painful tradeoffs. Others, myself included, believe that achieving equitable health outcomes can, in fact, be accomplished by improving efficiency. The existing structure of the US…
    May 2023
    Health Reform
  • Importance: Studies have suggested that greater primary care physician (PCP) availability is associated with better population health and that a diverse health workforce can improve care experience measures. However, it is unclear whether greater Black representation within the PCP workforce is associated with improved health outcomes among Black individuals.Objective: To assess county-level…
    April 2023
    Policy and Practice
  • Pata Suyemoto is a feminist scholar, educator, curriculum developer, activist, and artist. Her work promotes racial equity in mental health and suicide prevention through teaching and advocacy. She advocates for equity and inclusion at all levels of mental health care, from grassroots organizations to state-level policy institutions. Dr. Suyemoto has spoken and written about being a suicide…
    March 2023
    Advocacy, Racism

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