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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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  • The Level Setting Dialogue introduces P4HE's quarterly topic and how it relates to health equity. It provides foundational knowledge on the topic and sets the stage for deeper exploration and understanding. For the third quarter of 2025, we explore an essential topic: creating organizational change and power sharing for health equity.  #P4HElevelsettingdialogueQ3_2025
    July 2025
    Policy and Practice, Social/Structural Determinants
  • 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
  • Why Organizational Change Matters for EquityIn the pursuit of health equity, change must begin within organizations. Organizations across sectors — from healthcare systems to academic institutions and community-based organizations — are recognizing that advancing equity requires more than good intentions. It demands a shift in how we lead, partner, and share power. This blog explores how…
    June 2025
    Policy and Practice
  • Welcome to the P4HE Collaborative Resource Spotlight on Organizational Change for Health Equity. Organizational change for health equity refers to implementing strategies within health systems to ensure fair and just access to health care for all individuals. In this blog post, we’re excited to share a curated list of resources designed to drive action for policy makers, private sector leaders,…
    May 2025
    Policy and Practice
  • The Level Setting Dialogue introduces P4HE's quarterly topic and how it relates to health equity. It provides foundational knowledge on the topic and sets the stage for deeper exploration and understanding. For the second quarter of 2025, we explore an essential topic: combatting misinformation and advancing truth-telling.  #P4HElevelsettingdialogueQ2_2025
    May 2025
    Communication, Social Environment
  • In today’s digital age, information moves at lightning speed. While this enables rapid communication about critical health updates, it also creates opportunities for the equally rapid spread of misinformation. From vaccine hesitancy to misconceptions about public health initiatives, misinformation has the power to distort public understanding, fuel skepticism, and hinder progress in advancing…
    April 2025
    Policy and Practice, Social/Structural Determinants
  • Health Equity Scholars for Action (HES4A), a program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, aids in the career development and academic advancement of researchers from historically underrepresented backgrounds who conduct health equity work. Partners for Advancing Health Equity provides support and management for HES4A by providing resources and fostering community necessary for participants to…
    April 2025
    Social/Structural Determinants
  • The implementation of population-based lung cancer screening (LCS) in the United States has been delayed for more than four decades, even though radiographic studies in the 1970s and 1980s had already demonstrated improvements in survival. Several factors have contributed to this prolonged lag, including apprehensions about overdiagnosis and false positives, ongoing debates about the necessity of…
    April 2025
    Cancer, Policy and Practice
  • Welcome to the P4HE Collaborative Resource Spotlight on Combatting Misinformation and Advancing-Truth Telling. Combatting misinformation and advancing truth requires taking actions to correct and minimize the spread of false information. In this blog post, we’re excited to share a curated list of resources designed to drive action for policy makers, practitioners, private sector leaders,…
    March 2025
    Services & Programs
  • In the face of uncertainty at the federal level of government, local and state governments continue to be a hub of policy innovation and implementation that improve population health outcomes and advance community interests. ChangeLab Solutions' recent webinar Accelerating Policy Change: The Power of Local & State Solutions explored how state and local changemakers can better navigate…
    March 2025
    Policy and Practice
  • The Level Setting Dialogue introduces P4HE's quarterly topic and how it relates to health equity. It provides foundational knowledge on the topic and sets the stage for deeper exploration and understanding. For the first quarter of 2025, we explore an essential topic: political engagement for health equity. #P4HElevelsettingdialogueQ1_2025
    February 2025
    Advocacy
  • Medical misinformation can have a profound impact on perioperative patient safety. With users numbering in the billions, platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, X (formerly Twitter), Snapchat, Pinterest, Reddit, Messenger, and YouTube command an ever-increasing share of the public’s time, attention, and dependence. Consequently, they have also become primary sources of information for…
    February 2025
    Policy and Practice
  • The Partners for Advancing Health Equity (P4HE Collaborative) promotes innovation in health equity by facilitating active learning and collaboration between people and organizations about critical health equity topics. In 2024, P4HE Collaborative grew from 502 to 753 members across academia (47%), community based organizations (21%), government (12%), philanthropy (5%), and the private sector (15…
    January 2025
  • 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
  • Welcome to the P4HE Collaborative Resource Spotlight on Political Engagement. Political engagement within health equity refers to the active involvement of individuals and groups in the political processes that influence health outcomes and the distribution of health resources. In this blog post, we’re excited to share a curated list of resources designed to drive action for policy makers,…
    January 2025
    Policy and Practice, 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
  • 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
    Policy and Practice
  • 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
    Services & Programs
  • 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
    Illness/Disease/Injury/Wellbeing, Social/Structural Determinants
  • It has become increasingly important for public health to navigate the disruptiveness of a capricious political climate in our continued efforts to protect the health of communities across the country. State-level advocacy is not just beneficial, it is essential to maintaining and advancing community health. The newly released 50 State Scans of Public Health Advocacy Capacity report provides…
    December 2024
    Advocacy
  • 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

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