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Community organizers can be excellent partners for local and state health departments to meaningfully engage communities and advance equity. If you work at a health department and you or your staff have collaborated with community organizers, we would love to hear about your experiences! Please take and/or share this 15 minute survey!

In its first 18 months, over 23,000 people from 90 countries visited HIP’s Health Equity Guide website. Our recent evaluation reveals that hundreds of local and state health department staff are using the Health Equity Guide to advance health equity — both internally within their departments and externally with communities and other government agencies. Check out how the resource is influencing public health practice...

Los Angeles County Health Agency (CA) is advancing health equity by establishing the Division of Youth Diversion and Development to equitably promote youth well-being and life opportunities by limiting early contact with the justice system.

Rural Rice County Public Health (MN) used a small grant to complete a health equity organizational assessment and develop a health equity plan to build department and community momentum to advance health equity.

Between November 2017 and February 2018, HIP hosted a 4-part webinar series with national experts and local health departments to to discuss their work to advance health equity.

| Press Release | Oakland, CA — After years of struggling to close health disparities, a new movement has taken root: health departments are taking on racial and social justice. Health departments are confronting the power imbalances and forms of oppression at the root of health inequities, changing the conversation about […]