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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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  • IEC (Institute for Exceptional Care) is a national nonprofit working to make healthcare better and safer for people with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities (IDD). IEC partners with people with lived experience of IDD, family members, and healthcare professionals to change the way care is taught, delivered, and paid for by creating tools, programs, and campaigns. (author introduction)
    January 2024
    Services & Programs
  • Employer can provide employees with reasonable accommodations and workplace supports, such as adjustments or modifications, to enable people with disabilities, including mental health conditions, to perform job essential functions effectively and efficiently. Below are some resources to help employers support and accommodate employees with mental health conditions. (author description) #…
    January 2024
    Mental/Behavioral Health, Policy and Practice
  • University of Florida's Center for Arts in Medicine is committed to transforming health and wellness through the arts. It encourages its students to use their creativity to advance health, wellness, and equity as trained arts in health professionals. 
    January 2024
    Advocacy
  • The National Women’s Health Network is a 501c3 not for profit that represents the health interests of women across the life continuum. We maintain an intersectional focus on sexual and reproductive health, maternal health and the health and well-being of aging women. We work to improve women’s health outcomes through state and federal advocacy, consumer health education, and grassroots technical…
    January 2024
    Advocacy
  • The purpose of this toolkit is to help state and territorial health agencies (S/THAs) build and sustain partnerships with non-traditional, non-public health sectors. It focuses on how S/THAs can use Healthy People 2030 to motivate multisector collaboration, improve health outcomes, and advance health equity. (author introduction) #P4HEwebinarMarch2024
    January 2024
    Interventions
  • The American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA) is leading the profession to be more diverse, equitable, and inclusive through its commitment to developing diversity, equity, inclusion, justice, access, and belonging (DEIJAB) resources and tools to strengthen occupational therapy practitioners' contribution to a healthy and engaged community. (author description)
    January 2024
    Policy and Practice
  • 2023 is on pace to be a record-setting year for state legislation targeting LGBTQ adults and youth, with legislation that targets healthcare, education, public places and services, and drag performers or entertainment. Each of the previous two years—2022 and 2021—were record-setting years for anti-LGBTQ legislation, and the public rhetoric around these issues has increased since then. (author…
    January 2024
    Policy & Law
  • States across the country have responded to the COVID-19 pandemic with a flood of policy changes, from physical distancing and mask requirements to expansions of social safety net programs and eviction freezes. The COVID-19 US State Policy (CUSP) database is a publicly available dataset that is free for all users to download. CUSP is designed to be a tool for researchers, policymakers, the media…
    January 2024
    COVID-19/Coronavirus, Policy & Law
  • This website includes links to resources on LGBT equality and economic opportunity. 
    January 2024
    Policy and Practice
  • LGBTQI+ people are a vital part of our nation and have remained resilient in their fight for equal rights. However, the LGBTQI+ community is currently facing unprecedented levels of discrimination: State attacks explicitly targeting the rights of LGBTQI+ people have surged in recent years, while attempts to ban gender-affirming health care and criminalize drag performances have spread through…
    January 2024
    Policy and Practice
  • County Health Rankings & Roadmaps (CHR&R) brings actionable data, evidence, guidance and stories to support community-led efforts to grow community power and improve health equity. The University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute (UWPHI) created CHR&R for communities across the nation, with funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. This year, we focus on the connection…
    January 2024
    Services & Programs
  • Local public health and health care systems across Wisconsin conduct priority-setting processes. The University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute has compiled priorities from community health needs assessments (CHNA/CHA) and community health improvement plans (CHIP) from hospitals and health departments to create opportunities for shared learning and alignment of efforts. (author…
    January 2024
    Community-rooted/Participatory Research
  • By inspiring and engaging individuals and communities, the Human Rights Campaign strives to end discrimination against LGBTQ+ people and realize a world that achieves fundamental fairness and equality for all. HRC envisions a world where lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people plus community members who use different language to describe identity are ensured equality and embraced as…
    January 2024
    Advocacy
  • The Implementation Science Exchange is a free, online source for those interested in resources to help design, acquire funding for, execute and disseminate Implementation Science research projects. We find (and create) resources, tools, websites, guides, toolkits, and sample grant applications to help support researchers in the field of Implementation Science—particularly those new to research or…
    January 2024
    Services & Programs
  • PHERN, or the Public Health and Equity Resource Navigator, aims to help changemakers navigate 1,600+ resources focused on ending the pandemic, advancing equity, and building a resilient, robust, sustainable public health system for the future. (author introduction) 
    January 2024
    Services & Programs
  • The process of distilling and disseminating the best available evidence from research, context and experience, and using that evidence to inform and improve public health practice and policy. Put simply, it means finding, using and sharing what works in public health. (author introduction) 
    January 2024
    Services & Programs
  • Over the past few years, a heightened awareness of the importance of racial equity and justice has permeated the political conversation. American institutions, businesses, and communities are taking a closer look at their roles in this context. Increasingly, policymakers are applying an equity lens to their decision-making processes. Evidence-based research has become a prevailing tool in…
    January 2024
    Services & Programs
  • The Birth Story Project began as a collaborative effort between Sista Midwife and High Heal Productions. What began as an idea to create a safe space for black women and to bring together our stories has turned into a movement.The Birth Story Project (BSP) was launched in June 2018 with a goal to document the lived experiences of Black mothers in Louisiana. Using a “sister circle” model, women…
    January 2024
    Maternal/Child Health, Policy and Practice
  • The Healthy Birth Louisiana (HBL) initiative began in 2019 with support from the Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana Foundation (BCBSLA). The initiative started with a close examination of Louisiana's birth outcomes, followed by a statewide tour identifying partners and allies for improving birth. Sista Midwife Productions (SMP) had been training doulas for over five years and was now on a…
    January 2024
    Maternal/Child Health, Interventions
  • The Liberated Birth Recovery Fund is a 10-month program in which we provide working families with paid scholarships. This support includes up to three months of paid leave assistance tailored to each family's needs. The fund allocates $2,000 per month for up to three months for full-time workers and $1,250 per month for part-time workers. We also plan to assist those who receive partial paid…
    January 2024
    Maternal/Child Health, Interventions
  • This paper zeroes in on learning particularly focused on BSCF’s investments in multisector collaboration (MSC), which includes support for several health-focused multisector collaboratives including the California Accountable Communities for Health Initiative (CACHI) and BUILD Health Challenge, as well as cohorts of domestic violence prevention collaboratives such as Leveraging Collaboration to…
    January 2024
    Policy and Practice
  • This collection of resources provides key information and tools to support communities and organizations to authentically engage people with lived experience in co-design and implementation efforts to advance equity. (website description) #P4HEwebinarNovember2024
    January 2024
    Policy and Practice
  • The National Academy of Medicine (NAM) Culture of Health Program is proud to present a model for developing Community-Driven Health Equity Action Plans. The NAM piloted the model in collaboration with five diverse communities across the United States from 2018 to 2019. This page contains links to each pilot community’s completed plan, as well as lessons learned from the pilot project. (website…
    January 2024
    Policy and Practice
  • 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
  • The Health Equity Guide is a comprehensive resource for public health departments and practitioners to plan and implement health equity and racial justice work. It offers 15 strategic practices, organized using a cyclical gardening framework, to illustrate how each mutually supports health equity goals. (website description)#P4HEwebinarQ3_2025
    January 2024
    Policy and Practice

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