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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 pandemic exposed already existing inequities in our healthcare system when it comes to race, sex, and socioeconomic status as Black, Hispanic, AIAN, and NHOPI people experienced higher rates of COVID-19 cases and deaths than White people. They were at about one and a half times greater risk of COVID-19 infection, and about twice as likely to die from the virus, than their White counterparts.…
    January 2023
    Communication
  • Today, there is no questioning the prevalence of media in day-to-day life. People in the United States spend an average of 4.5 hours a day watching some form of entertainment media. Lasting solutions to health equity require buy-in from a range of individuals and communities, including those who are not typically engaged in educational or movement-building efforts. The broad-reaching scope of…
    December 2022
    Communication
  • Misinformation is a critical threat to both health care delivery and health research. We have been confronted with that threat in very real and brutal terms over the past three years of navigating a global health pandemic. This has perhaps been most visible as unvaccinated patients—many relying on false information to make a decision that puts their lives and the lives of others at risk—have…
    November 2022
    Communication
  • In celebration of 25 years of promoting health equity and social justice through partnerships with community and academic partners, CCPH is hosting a series of webinars highlighting partnerships and their power to change the conditions and environments in which people live, work, study, pray, and play. The initial webinar in the series will explore CCPH’s partnership with the Duke Clinical…
    October 2022
    COVID-19/Coronavirus, Communication
  • As advocates for health equity—when everyone has a just opportunity to live their highest health potential—we need to stop talking about eliminating health inequities. Not because unjust differences in health across groups don’t matter or because we don’t need to transform systems to produce equitable outcomes for all. Rather, framing our focus on reducing differences in health obscures the…
    October 2022
    Communication
  • Many racialized health inequities in the USA have been known for decades. However, academic medicine, individual clinicians, and larger healthcare systems have not yet supported action towards sufficient and meaningful solutions, as evidenced by the persistence of racialized health inequities over time. Recently, academic medicine is increasing efforts to unequivocally identify systemic racism as…
    October 2022
    Communication, Health Reform
  • This document provides information on respectful and person-first language for inclusive communication. 
    August 2022
    Communication
  • Social media is an important tool for disseminating accurate medical information and combating misinformation (ie, the spreading of false or inaccurate information) and disinformation (ie, spreading misinformation with the intent to deceive). The prolific rise of inaccurate information during a global pandemic is a pressing public health concern. In response to this phenomenon, health…
    July 2022
    COVID-19/Coronavirus, Advocacy, Communication
  • The P4HE Collaborative brought together media and health equity experts to discuss the media's role in the advancement of health equity and leveraging other communications avenues to promote research, practice and policy. In this webinar, speakers: Examined how health equity is discussed in the news coverage.Shared about health equity podcasting and other ways to connect with audiences.…
    July 2022
    Communication
  • This webinar explored how dominant narratives perpetuate harm and how these narratives can be challenged and disrupted, moving towards equity-focused and person-first alternatives.Learning Objectives1. Explain how social determinants of health uniquely impact marginalized communities, public health, and health equity2. Distinguish both short-term and long-term implications on our health care and…
    June 2022
    Communication, Social/Structural Determinants
  • Achieving Health Equity requires developing a shared language that allows people to understand diversity in various contexts. For instance, shared language allows us to discuss diversity issues concerning gender identity, just as much as it allows us to discuss diversity issues concerning citizenship, race, or sexual attraction. This article sets out five key terms that form the foundation of a…
    May 2022
    Communication, Services & Programs
  • The COVID-19 pandemic has increased the need for delivering accurate and timely health information to the public. However, the public is being increasingly exposed to a barrage of health misinformation amplified by social media. The World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations coined the term “infodemic” to describe this unprecedented spread of health misinformation. A recent report by…
    March 2022
    Communication
  • Binge watching, Tik Tok challenges and the bittersweet torment of Wordle—these days we live in a world of constant distractions. Finding a way to get someone’s attention, and keep it, can seem like an impossible feat. So how can organizations break through the noise to promote public health? As part of the Partnering for Vaccine Equity program, the CDC Foundation and the Urban Institute…
    February 2022
    Illness/Disease/Injury/Wellbeing, Communication, Social/Structural Determinants
  • Objective: This initiative will seek to:Understand the underlying mechanisms of health-related misinformation and disinformation.Test interventions to address and mitigate the impact of health-related misinformation and disinformation on health disparities and the populations that experience health disparities.Description of Initiative: The projects supported by this initiative seek to stimulate…
    February 2022
    Communication
  • As an aspiring medical illustrator, Chidiebere Ibe noticed the absence as soon as he began to learn the craft. Why aren’t there more images of Black skin in medical illustration? In a healthcare system beset with racial inequities, the relative scarcity of dark skin tones in medical textbooks is no exception. Driven to correct this imbalance, the Nigerian-born would-be neurosurgeon started…
    January 2022
    Communication
  • The COVID-19 pandemic laid bare the gaps in our public health and health data infrastructure and illuminated the many ways in which they perpetuate vast health inequities. To work toward a modernized health data system, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation established a first-of-its-kind National Commission to Transform Public Health Data Systems to reimagine how data are collected,…
    October 2021
    Communication
  • Health systems have a lot to gain from clinician education around effective communication with non-English-speaking patients. In 2013, more than 61 million people in the US reported speaking a non-English language at home, of which approximately 4 out of 10 reported limited English proficiency (LEP); that number rose to nearly 66 million in 2019. Despite the linguistic diversity of the US, health…
    July 2021
    Communication, Services & Programs
  • The parents of a 7-year-old girl call their clinic with concerns about the health of their daughter. A telehealth visit is scheduled. On the day of the appointment, her parents, who speak and read a language other than English, are unable to navigate the patient portal account to join the virtual visit. She subsequently misses the appointment and experiences months with declining health and…
    May 2021
    Communication
  • Background: COVID-19 virus has resulted in significant psychological distress for many individuals, particularly, those in underserved communities. Social media have the potential to be one of the most effective tools for mental health campaigns, reaching wide audiences in the shortest amount of time. In this paper, the potential of harnessing social media platforms to address mental health needs…
    May 2021
    COVID-19/Coronavirus, Mental/Behavioral Health, Advocacy, 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
  • On July 29, 2020, the Roundtable on Health Literacy convened a public workshop to explore the challenges resulting from the proliferation of health and medical misinformation and disinformation, particularly as they relate to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. The virtual workshop explored the role of fact-checking organizations (FCOs) and the technology industry in addressing…
    December 2020
    Communication
  • Research has the potential to influence US social policy; however, existing research in this area lacks a coherent message. The Model for Dissemination of Research provides a framework through which to synthesize lessons learned from research to date on the process of translating research to US policymakers. (author abstract) #P4HEsummit2022
    October 2020
    Communication
  • Public voices have largely been absent from the discussions about open access publishing in medical research. Yet the public have a strong interest in ensuring open access of medical research findings because of their roles as funders, advocates, research participants, and patients. By limiting access to research outputs, the current publishing system makes it more difficult for research to be…
    February 2020
    Communication
  • Racial and ethnic health inequities have been magnified during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Linguistic barriers are a recognized source of health inequities for ethnic minority communities whose health communication needs cannot be adequately met in the majority language. Emergency circumstances, such as respiratory distress and end-of-life care, carry elevated risk of…
    January 2020
    COVID-19/Coronavirus, Communication

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