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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 Ways of Knowing Symposia is a series of five collaborative events focused on cultivating a more holistic appreciation of the different ways people understand the world and fostering a more inclusive and equitable standard for rigor in health research. This video is a recording of the first session, the Ways of Knowing Symposia Kickoff, a hybrid event held on March 7th in New Orleans,…March 2024Services & Programs
- The Partners for Advancing Health Equity (P4HE) Research Collaborative hosted our fourth workshop series, which focused on design thinking and design justice. This three-part workshop series introduced participants to the problem-solving methods of design thinking to work toward justice and discussed how the social, environmental, and political histories of place can inform practices of public…March 2024Policy and Practice, Social/Structural Determinants
- In 2018, it was estimated that health inequities cost the United States economy $451 billion, the equivalent of 2% of the U.S. gross domestic product (LaVeist et al., 2023). The disproportionate impact of the Covid-19 pandemic demonstrates the monetary and human cost of persistent inequities that permeate all systems including emergency response. Racial and ethnic minority individuals had higher…March 2024Policy and Practice
- Every day, two or three women die because of pregnancy or childbirth. Nearly 80% of these deaths are preventable. These outcomes disproportionately impact racialized populations, including Black and Indigenous women, who are two to three times more likely to die. The Practical Playbook III: Working Together to Improve Maternal Health is a guide for maternal health stakeholders (like researchers,…February 2024Maternal/Child Health, Policy and Practice
- Black and Brown maternal health disparities are rooted in historical health policies limiting power and reproductive decision-making in the United States. From anti-Black racism in the field of obstetrics and gynecology and policies such as the Sheppard–Towner Act of 1921 in the American South, to xenophobia through the forced sterilization of non-English speaking mothers in the 20th and 21st…February 2024Maternal/Child Health, Policy and Practice
- As the root causes of health inequities are more readily acknowledged, it is clear that efforts to redress injustices toward equity are required. Advocacy and activism are key approaches to progress toward equity, yet can be overlooked as effective public health practices. This webinar will discuss concepts related to advocacy and activism for health equity and give attendees actionable steps and…February 2024Advocacy
- Policy PointsThe structural determinants of health are 1) the written and unwritten rules that create, maintain, or eliminate durable and hierarchical patterns of advantage among socially constructed groups in the conditions that affect health, and 2) the manifestation of power relations in that people and groups with more power based on current social structures work—implicitly and explicitly—to…February 2024Social/Structural Determinants
- People with intellectual disabilities (IDs) experience extensive health disparities, including premature mortality and higher incidence of chronic disease. These inequities have been linked to reduced access to preventive health care for this population. We review the evidence as it relates to barriers and facilitators of effective implementation of health checks and screenings for people with…February 2024Chronic Disease
- Societal systems act individually and in concert to create and perpetuate structural racism through both policies and practices at the local, state, and federal levels that, in turn, generate racial health disparities. Both current and historical policy approaches across multiple sectors including but not limited to housing, employment, health insurance, immigration and criminal legal, have the…February 2024Policy & Law
- Danya Keene and her team are on a mission to improve health care for unhoused people. Based out of the Yale School of Public Health, the Housing and Health Equity Lab has explored the effects of housing disparities and homelessness on people’s health since its founding in 2020. Her team aims to get a deeper understanding of how access to housing affects health outcomes and develops solutions to…January 2024Advocacy
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