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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 ASPPH Academic Public Health Messaging Guide 2025 builds upon the foundation of our 2024 ASPPH Messaging Guide, offering updated strategies to communicate the value of public health, particularly in a time where efforts to disrupt it are emerging at the local, state, and federal levels.(author abstract)#P4HEpodcastQ2_2025
    January 2025
    Communication
  • As public health, clinical and research practitioners and communicators, our work requires us to disseminate accurate information to help people with diverse backgrounds make evidence-based health and safety decisions. However, the technologies that help us communicate also spread unreliable or false information. The steps below will help you convey credible health-related information to patients…
    November 2024
    Communication
  • Accessibility is an essential part of your public health communications. Up to 27% of adults in the United States have some type of disability (CDC), and it’s important to consider how people with disabilities will interact with your public health content. It is not possible for people to understand the important health information you are sharing if they cannot access it.In partnership with…
    May 2024
    Communication
  • Culturally driven communication is focused on inclusion. Unlike a “one-size-fits-all” approach, culturally driven communication prioritizes the preferences and perspectives of your target audience as you design messaging, visuals, and outreach. Recognizing and incorporating the diversity of people’s cultures, values, and beliefs allows you to more effectively communicate with multicultural…
    September 2023
    Communication
  • What is Plain Language?Plain language is communication that is clear, accessible, and useful.How Can Plain Language Advance Public Health?Effective public health communications is critical to help people stay informed and make decisions about their health. Information about public health can be confusing, jargony, and fast-changing, so communicating in plain language helps to translate and…
    February 2023
    Communication
  • This document provides information on respectful and person-first language for inclusive communication. 
    August 2022
    Communication
  • In defining health equity, rural communities may consider examining the language they use to describe populations that experience inequities. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention offer Resources & Style Guides for Framing Health Equity & Avoiding Stigmatizing Language that provide important considerations for communicating with a health equity lens. The guiding principle of…
    May 2021
    Communication
  • This package seeks to strengthen existing leadership development curricula for pre- and in-service health workers and managers through a suite of gender-transformative sessions, which challenge participants to identify and respond to unique considerations for women in leadership. Rather than expecting women to “lean in” to professions and organizations that have largely excluded them from…
    December 2020
    Communication, Social/Structural Determinants
  • To assist state agencies with talking about issues related to equity in general and racial equity in particular, the Governor’s Interagency Council on Health Disparities (Council) is creating this Equity Language Guide. It provides guidance, standard definitions, and terms to avoid that agencies can use in the creation of reports, forms, and other written materials. This guidance is not…
    December 2018
    Communication

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