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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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- Given the COVID-19 pandemic’s disproportionate effects on people of color and increased attention to racial justice in the US, initiatives to increase health equity are sprouting up across the country (Ndugga, Artiga, and Pham 2021). These efforts range from addressing immediate health and social needs among communities most affected by the pandemic’s impacts to broader and longer-range policy…July 2021Community-rooted/Participatory Research
- Fossil fuels — coal, oil, and gas — lie at the heart of the crises we face, including public health, racial injustice, and climate change. This report synthesizes existing research and provides new analysis that finds that the fossil fuel industry contributes to public health harms that kill hundreds of thousands of people in the U.S. each year and disproportionately endanger Black, Brown,…April 2021Interventions, Environment/Context, Climate Change, Environmental Injustice, Racism
- Disparities in health outcomes should not, and do not have to, be driven by racism and bias. Here’s what life sciences and health care organizations can do to advance equity in the pursuit of health and well-being for all. (author introduction) #P4HEwebinarMay2023April 2021Social/Structural Determinants
- The COVID-19 pandemic has made explicit the health disparities that have long existed worldwide, exposing their roots in systems of exclusion and power. Since the novel coronavirus first hit cities across the globe, we have seen drastically different local and national responses, levels of risk and vulnerability, and emergent supports—in response to both the health crisis and the accompanying…April 2021COVID-19/Coronavirus
- Global learning (GL), reverse innovation, global to local, multi-directional learning . . . the need to share the best evidence-based ideas across borders has never been more obvious or more needed. Join an interactive session to support the creation of a global learning network. Participants will learn about a RWJF funded project to create a Global Learning to Advance Health Equity Network and…March 2021Policy and Practice
- The goal of this study is to examine the effect of the Housing First model on expenditures by MassHealth, Massachusetts’ Medicaid program. Housing First offers chronically homeless individuals immediate housing as a foundation for the delivery of a range of other supportive services (e.g., mental health and/or substance use disorder services and social service supports). The Massachusetts Housing…December 2020Housing Discrimination, Healthy Housing
- Ros Beadle is an Adjunct Lecturer at the Centre for Remote Health, Flinders University (in Alice Springs). Despite extensive previous experience working in community development, Ros Beadle found herself out of her comfort zone when she first started to work as a community support worker in a very remote Australian Aboriginal community in 2009. As she indicates in this conversation with Ernie…October 2020Community-rooted/Participatory Research
- Antonio Boyd is the Chief Operating Officer at Future of School, the leading non-partisan charity focused on access to quality education, and a doctoral candidate in the Graduate School of Education at Northeastern University. In this video, Antonio discusses his action research dissertation with his chair, Dr. Cherese Childers-McKee. Antonio used participatory action research to explore…October 2020High School Graduation
- Social factors are becoming more widely recognized as having an impact on health. There is growing evidence that social, economic, and environmental factors contribute significantly to disparities in health outcomes (Braveman et al 2011). As a result, those looking to close health disparities are increasingly looking at interventions that address structural issues that create an unfair and…September 2020Community-rooted/Participatory Research, Systemic Determinants
- Artificial intelligence (AI) systems for computer-aided diagnosis and image-based screening are being adopted worldwide by medical institutions. In such a context, generating fair and unbiased classifiers becomes of paramount importance. The research community of medical image computing is making great efforts in developing more accurate algorithms to assist medical doctors in the difficult task…June 2020Policy and Practice, Genderism
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