NACCHO is hosting a multi-part webinar series to help local health departments build capacity to engage in public health communication.“Engaging and Communicating with Hard-to-Reach Populations” will offer best practices that will help local health departments better engage hard-to-reach…
In partnership with several Northwest tribes, parents, youth, and healthcare providers, the Indian Health Services (IHS) is pleased to announce the “Celebrating Our Magic” toolkit, a culturally-specific resource for American Indian & Alaska Native communities…
Building on the work of ROCChe (Research on Care Community Health Equity), the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) founded the Collaborative for Health Equity: Act, Research, Generate Evidence (CHARGE), a forum for investigators, clinicians,…
APHA launched the Center for Climate, Health and Equity to lead public health efforts to inspire action on climate and health, advance policy and galvanize the field to address climate change. With a long-standing commitment…
By Tina Yuen and Patrick Glass, ChangeLab Solutions Complete streets is the concept of designing streets so that all people—no matter if they’re walking, bicycling, using public transportation, driving, or mobility impaired—can safely and easily…
The increasingly diverse and multicultural 21st century US population requires health departments to be deliberate when it comes to ensuring their programs, services, practices and policies do not reinforce health inequities and disparities. A “one-size-fits-all”…
A recent study published in PNAS was the first to establish a pollution inequity metric that quantifies the disproportionate burden on black and Hispanic Americans from air pollution caused mainly by white Americans’ consumption of goods…
Merck Foundation has opened the call for proposals for its new initiative, HIV Care Connect, which aims to reduce disparities in access to care and improve health outcomes for people with HIV living in vulnerable communities…
The Indian Health Service (IHS) National STD program and the IHS Division of Epidemiology and Disease Prevention have released the Indian Health Surveillance Report — Sexually Transmitted Diseases 2015. The report presents statistics and trends…
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF)-National Recreation and Park Association (NRPA) Award for Health Equity recognizes an individual, or team of no more than two individuals, who has successfully implemented a systems change approach to reduce…