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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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  • Objective: To understand the ways relational organizing practices impacted collaborations between independent or health system‐affiliated community health clinics, public health offices, and community groups during the early COVID‐19 pandemic.Data Sources and Study Setting: Between November 2020 and June 2021, we interviewed clinical and public health workers, clinic‐based community organizers,…
    December 2023
    Policy and Practice
  • This study examines how misinformation-susceptible individuals from historically excluded and marginalized communities engage with science topics (e.g., climate change, vaccines, and health/wellness) and interpret misinformation and corrective intervention strategies. Two focus groups reveal that most participants are highly distrustful of authority figures, celebrity endorsements, and fact-…
    December 2023
    Policy and Practice, Social/Structural Determinants
  • Key facts:Human rights are universal rights of all human beings, regardless of race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status.The right to health and other health-related human rights are legally binding commitments enshrined in international human rights instruments. WHO’s Constitution also recognizes the right to…
    December 2023
    Policy and Practice, Systemic Determinants
  • The Community Health Training Institute (the Training Institute) provides targeted skills development to individuals and teams working to build healthy communities in Massachusetts. We customize our in-person trainings and webinars  around core competencies that include: Coalition Building; Leadership; Policy and Systems Change; Communications; Health Equity; Youth Development; Strategic…
    December 2023
    Community-rooted/Participatory Research
  • This podcast is produced from a recent Partners for Advancing Health Equity webinar, held November 2023. Moderated by our podcast host, Caryn Bell, she and guests discuss how recognition of structural racism, sexism, and other structural marginalization are the root causes of health inequities. However, it is not enough. Efforts to make changes on the structural level require shifts in power that…
    November 2023
    Policy and Practice, Social/Structural Determinants
  • The Partners for Advancing Health Equity (P4HE) Research Learning Collaborative hosted our third workshop series, which was focused on Community-Based System Dynamics (CBSD). CBSD is a participatory method for engaging and working with communities and organizations to address complex issues across a variety of contexts and cultures. With roots in system dynamics, group model building, and…
    November 2023
    Policy and Practice
  • Recognizing that structural racism, sexism, and other structural marginalization as the root cause of health inequities is a major step forward in the field of health equity. However, it is not enough. Efforts to make changes on the structural level require shifts in power that center the views, experiences, and desires of the communities that experience harm. Understanding and collaboration…
    November 2023
    Policy and Practice
  • The AAMC Collaborative for Health Equity: Act, Research, Generate Evidence (CHARGE) cultivates the health equity community by advancing collaborative research, policy, and programmatic solutions to health and health care inequities. The vision of AAMC CHARGE is an equitable and just society in which academic health centers and their multisector and community partners: Prioritize health…
    November 2023
    Health Reform, Services & Programs
  • People most directly affected by systemic barriers and inequities are best positioned to identify the solutions and actions needed to drive change. When community development centers local priorities, such as by investing in place-based community development financial institutions (CDFIs), it can help build local capacity to advance equitable opportunities for all residents to achieve their best…
    November 2023
    Services & Programs, Systemic Determinants
  • Takeaways: Longstanding systemic and institutional policies and practices make leading health equity work a challenge in most communities. Organizational structures, where hierarchical and power dynamics are often at play, may make it difficult to have transparent and effective conversations about diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). Over the last several years, state…
    November 2023
    Advocacy, Community-rooted/Participatory Research, Policy & Law, Systemic Determinants
  • Misinformation spreads rapidly across social media and other online platforms, posing risks to individual health and societal well-being. Research on the psychology of misinformation has proliferated in recent years, yet many questions remain about how and why misinformation spreads, how it affects behavior, and how best to counter it. Answering these questions well depends in part on how…
    November 2023
    Communication, Social/Structural Determinants
  • The White House Blueprint for Addressing the Maternal Health Crisis (White House Blueprint) has identified goals and actions to reduce the rates of maternal mortality and morbidity, eliminate disparities in maternal health outcomes, and improve the experience of pregnancy, birth, and the postpartum period for people across the United States. The following Evidence to Action Brief…
    November 2023
    Maternal/Child Health, Policy and Practice
  • Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based chatbots are considered one of the most innovative digital advancements in recent times. The public release of the AI chatbot ChatGPT (GPT-3.5) by OpenAI in November 2022 attracted massive attention with more than 100 million monthly active users. GPT-4 was released in March 2023 and is presently available for paid subscribers. (author introduction)#…
    October 2023
    Communication
  • In the wake of the June 2022 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization eliminating the constitutional right to an abortion after almost 50 years, the need for philanthropic funding to ensure equity in reproductive health care has surged.Since the overturning of Roe v. Wade, as of October 2023, 14 states have essentially banned abortion, seven states have restricted…
    October 2023
    Reproductive/Sexual Health, Policy and Practice
  • In traditional philanthropy, the foundation sets the metrics of success and requires the grantees to demonstrate that their work is meeting them. Headwaters Foundation takes a different approach to evaluation. We created a reporting process that centers learning together, positioning grantees and the foundation as true partners in the work to improve health in Western Montana.Because of our trust…
    October 2023
    Services & Programs
  • Purpose: The Promise of Adolescence: Realizing Opportunity for All Youth report recommends several Medicaid policies to increase insurance coverage among adolescents: approve Medicaid expansion; eliminate the 5-year Medicaid waiting period for lawfully present adolescent immigrants; increase Medicaid reimbursement rates for adolescent health services to the level of Medicare; and ensure coverage…
    October 2023
    Advocacy, Access
  • On World Evidence-Based Healthcare Day 2023, we celebrate the importance of ‘evidence and global health equity’. The aim of this global initiative is to raise awareness of the need for better evidence to inform healthcare policy, practice and decision-making to improve health outcomes globally. Evidence-based healthcare relies strongly on rigorous research and data to guide decisions, and…
    October 2023
    Policy and Practice
  • October marks LGBTQ History Month, and this week on At Liberty we are honoring the legacy of LGBTQ activism throughout the AIDS epidemic. Throughout the late ‘80s and early ‘90s, AIDS claimed the lives of thousands of New Yorkers per year, with city, state, and national governments doing little to address the crisis. In response to government inaction and homophobia, a group of New York City…
    October 2023
    Advocacy
  • 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
  • Article headlines in the past year have grabbed readers’ attention by with claims like “loneliness is just as dangerous as smoking fifteen cigarettes per day.” While this statement isn’t entirely correct, loneliness can have a similar impact on heart heath, mental wellbeing, and a number of other health determinants.  a number of other health determinants.These findings come at a time when…
    October 2023
    Policy and Practice, Social/Structural Determinants
  • 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
  • Background: Nourishing Beginnings is an integrated referral and service delivery model supporting Medicaid-eligible pregnant individuals by providing increased nutritional food access throughout pregnancy up to three months postpartum, through community health workers (CHW), who simultaneously address and provide support for social service needs of the client. Methods: To study the impact of…
    October 2023
    Maternal/Child Health, Medicaid
  • In this episode, Diverse host David Pluviose welcomes two distinguished guests, Dr. Alonzo Plough and Dr. Thomas LaVeist. Plough is vice president of Research-Evaluation-Learning and chief science officer for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. LaVeist is dean of the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine at Tulane University and chair-elect of the Association of Schools and Programs of…
    September 2023
    Policy and Practice
  • Health departments and community partners know that HIV awareness and sexual education plays a large role in supporting young people to stay HIV-negative or undetectable. Nationally, 20% of new HIV diagnoses in 2020 were among young people aged 13-24, and almost half of those living with HIV do not know their status. Reaching youth with effective and accurate information about HIV can be…
    September 2023
    HIV, Advocacy

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