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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 Breakthrough Health Film Festival, held April 6-8, 2025, at Tulane University presented an inspiring showcase of storytelling through film that promotes health and wellness, aiming to spark conversations, foster understanding, and inspire action toward a healthier society for all. Films and post-screening conversations highlighted human stories from community builders, advocates, filmmakers,…April 2025Social/Structural Determinants
- Every day, two or three women die because of pregnancy or childbirth. Nearly 80% of these deaths are preventable. These outcomes disproportionately impact racialized populations, including Black and Indigenous women, who are two to three times more likely to die. The Practical Playbook III: Working Together to Improve Maternal Health is a guide for maternal health stakeholders (like researchers,…February 2024Maternal/Child Health, Policy and Practice
- 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 2023Policy & Law
- For many who have taken up a new language or visited a foreign country, language barriers are often unexpected hiccups and might even be a bit embarrassing. But what happens when language barriers become an everyday encounter that impacts your fundamental autonomy, your voice, and your rights? This talk explores the role of language barriers in healthcare and the power of language translators in…May 2023Communication
- On September 22, 2022, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's Roundtable on Health Literacy hosted the first of three public workshops in a series titled “The Roles of Trust and Health Literacy in Achieving Health Equity.” The first workshop in the series explored how using health literacy best practices in clinical settings might impact trust in health care institutions…February 2023Policy and Practice
- Whole health is physical, behavioral, spiritual, and socioeconomic well-being as defined by individuals, families, and communities. Whole health care is an interprofessional, team-based approach anchored in trusted relationships to promote well-being, prevent disease, and restore health. It aligns with a person’s life mission, aspiration, and purpose. It shifts the focus from a reactive disease-…February 2023Social/Structural Determinants
- There is increasing evidence that civic participation - from voting to volunteering - is a social driver of health. The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's Roundtable on Population Health Improvement convened a workshop to explore the links between civics and health; between measures of civic engagement and quantitative and qualitative measures of health equity; and the…January 2023Policy and Practice
- Self-care is a broad-based concept and can encompass numerous actions that are intended to empower the individual to enhance their own health. Self-management approaches are one component of self-care. Given the nature of the medical abortion process, it is possible for women to manage the process by themselves in whole or part. While individuals may conduct some or all elements related to the…January 2023Illness/Disease/Injury/Wellbeing, Reproductive Justice
- In this opening plenary session from the Partners for Advancing Health Equity 2022 Summit, Thomas LaVeist, Alonzo Plough, and Sheldon Watts held a conversation around health equity and next steps in advancing the conversation. #P4HEsummit2022December 2022Policy and Practice
- In this closing plenary session from the Partners for Advancing Health Equity 2022 Summit, Thomas LaVeist and Michael White, a educator, jazz historian, bandleader, and composer, closed the Summit by discussing and showcasing New Orleans jazz as a metaphor for American Life. #P4HEsummit2022December 2022Policy and Practice, Social/Structural Determinants
- In December 2022, the Partners for Advancing Health Equity and the Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, in collaboration with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, hosted the inaugural Partners for Health Equity Summit in New Orleans, Louisiana. Day one focused on discovering New Orleans through immersive, place-based experiences. Days two and three featured sessions…December 2022Policy and Practice
- This video features highlights from the inaugural Partners for Health Equity Summit that took place December 4-6, 2022 in New Orleans, LA. This Summit, hosted by Partners for Advancing Health Equity and Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, featured multiple plenaries, breakout sessions, and workshops focused on health equity and…December 2022Policy and Practice, Social/Structural Determinants
- In this breakout session during the Partners for Advancing Health Equity 2022 Summit, Dr. Gail Christopher, Executive Director at the National Collaborative for Health Equity, emphasized the importance of allowing our vision for health and racial equity to guide the data we collect and the research we conduct to achieve sustainable change and justice. By outlining the Trust, Racial Healing, and…December 2022Policy and Practice
- In this breakout session during the Partners for Advancing Health Equity 2022 Summit, panelists spoke about their work for the Austin Justice Coalition (AJC), a community organization that focuses on improving the quality of life for people who are Black, Brown, and poor. Since 2015, AJC has served as a catalyst for positive change towards economic and racial equity for Austin’s people…December 2022Policy and Practice
- In this breakout session from the Partners for Advancing Health Equity 2022 Summit, panelists shared excerpt clips from the film "Public Education, Racism, and Community Health: Lessons from New Orleans" which documents the community struggle in having a say with rebuilding the city's public education system after Hurricane Katrina in 2005. The webinar also highlighted the structural flaws…December 2022Education, Environment/Context, Racism
- In this breakout session during the Partners for Advancing Health Equity 2022 Summit, panelists discussed what it means to effectively measure health equity in different settings. A main theme throughout the presentation was how measuring health equity cannot be done without also equally measuring the causes of health inequities. When thinking about how certain outcomes in health equity are…December 2022Racism
- In a breakout session during the Partners for Advancing Health Equity 2022 Summit, Dr. James presented an overview on the current field of equitable grantmaking in health equity. President and CEO of Grantmakers In Health, Dr. James' company has five areas of focus for their 2023 strategic plan:health equity and social justice,access and quality,population health,community engagement and…December 2022Systemic Determinants
- In this breakout session during the Partners for Advancing Health Equity 2022 Summit, Dr. Walters explained how power, love and vision are foundational elements needed when addressing historical and intergenerational trauma for health equity in the context of Native American settler colonialism.#P4HEsummit2022December 2022Policy and Practice, Environment/Context
- In this plenary session during the Partners for Advancing Health Equity 2022 Summit, panelists conducted a Q&A session with audience members revolving a series of questions on how lower-income minority communities are impacted by climate change and natural disasters, as well as what the future could look like for these populations. #P4HEsummit2022December 2022Climate Change
- In this breakout session during the Partners for Advancing Health Equity 2022 Summit, panelists discussed the current state of the HIV pandemic, how the country actionably got to this point, and what the national strategy is moving forward. #P4HEsummit2022December 2022HIV
- In this breakout session during the Partners for Advancing Health Equity 2022 Summit, panelists highlighted some of the critical issues in how medicine is practiced and thought of with regard to racial health equity. Dr. Neighbors began by sharing about the management of chronic diseases among black Americans with an emphasis on oral health, type 2 diabetes, and major depressive…December 2022Illness/Disease/Injury/Wellbeing
- In this breakout session during the Partners for Advancing Health Equity 2022 Summit, each of the four panelists provided specific issues exemplifying the threat of climate change. The idea of a "threat multiplier" is to be thought of in four components: 1. structural racism, 2. environmental justice, 3. climate change, and 4. outcomes. The fact that climate change is a threat multiplier is…December 2022
- In this breakout session during the Partners for Advancing Health Equity 2022 Summit, Mr. Stojanovski began by outlining the background on what constitutes systems-thinking. The session then transitioned into a participatory mapping process with the audience, and concluded with Dr. Headen's presentation on community-based system dynamics. #P4HEsummit2022December 2022HIV, Social Environment
- This breakout session during the Partners for Advancing Health Equity 2022 Summit highlighted the importance of the components of communication, data visualization and storytelling being merged together as one in order to effectively message information. Dr. Feng first presented her project titled "Tracking COVID-19 effects by race and ethnicity" which was followed up by Dr. Williamson's…December 2022COVID-19/Coronavirus, Classism
- Community-engaged participatory action research (PAR): Rewriting the script for equitable healthcareIn this breakout session during the Partners for Advancing Health Equity 2022 Summit, speakers addressed three key issues:Challenges in the health care system the come from devaluing the knowledge of parents who have children with disabilities,How a "Rewrite the Script" process can help create health equity allies to address challenges, andWhat it means to go from story-telling to story-…December 2022Community-rooted/Participatory Research, Health Reform
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