• Our 3400+ member Public Health Awakened network builds a base of public health practitioners to take collective action on timely social justice, racial justice, and health equity issues and campaigns in coordination with broader social justice movements. 
• The Public Health for Community Power Coalition, launched by HIP in September 2024, coordinates non-governmental public health organizations to fight for the policy priorities of community power-building organizations and networks.
• Policy Advocacy and Support: Through coordinated action, Public Health Awakened members have engaged in numerous campaigns advancing health equity.

• Is collaborative and conducted in close communication with community partners
• Should be beneficial to communities and support policy change to improve living conditions 
• Uplifts and reflects people’s lived realities 
• Ensures research participants and their stories are respected 
• Offers acknowledgement and compensation to participants 
• Empowers participants to end participation anytime if they feel uncomfortable 
• Encompasses follow-up beyond project completion 

• Support with navigating power dynamics: Provides a confidential and supportive community to help navigate risky, political, or complex power dynamics
• $30,000 in flexible funding for community power-building: Funds can be used to support community organizers’ time and participation
• Peer learning: Ten virtual sessions and 1-2 in-person gatherings for shared learning, relationship-centered networking, and leadership development
• Site-specific coaching and technical assistance: Monthly site meetings and up to 20 hours of direct TA support to advance local health equity and power-building work
• Dedicated time for relationship-building: We “move at the speed of trust” and emphasize building trust within organizational teams and partnerships

• Deepen relationships and integrate the head and the heart
• Advance equity and racial justice through structural solutions
• Transform dominant narratives that impede health equity and racial justice
• Build, shift, and share power with communities
• Align with social movements
• Cultivate visionary and strategic leadership to guide liberation culture
• Connect to our nationwide health equity network

“PPH helped us think about [the health department] as more strategic partners.” 

“We often separate ourselves and create silos. I love the fact that we’ve been able to clear the bridge and have this opportunity to move forward.”  

“The experience was eye-opening…we didn’t know that [we as] organizers could interact with the health department in this way.” 

• Building strong, trusting, and accountable relationships with community power-building organizations and networks. 
• Working together to dismantle systems of oppression, change unjust policies and narratives, and build life-affirming alternatives.  ‍
• Mobilizing public health organizations and practitioners to align with communities impacted by injustice to support their power, narratives and policy priorities.

• American University
• Boston University School of Public Health
• Capella University
• Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science
• City University of New York
• Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
• Colorado School of Public Health
• Drexel University
• Emory University Rollins School of Public Health
• George Washington University
• Georgia State University
• Harvard University T.H. Chan School of Public Health
• Howard University
• Iowa State University
• Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health
• Northeastern University
• Northwestern University
• Oregon Health and Science University and Portland State University School of Public Health
• Rutgers University
• San Diego State University School of Public Health
• San Francisco State University
• San Jose State University
• Seattle University
• Tufts University
• Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine
• University of California Berkeley School of Public Health
• University of California Davis
• University of California Los Angeles Fielding School of Public Health
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Gillings School of Global Public Health
• University of Central Arkansas
• University of Illinois Chicago School of Public Health
• University of Iowa College of Public Health
• University of Maryland School of Public Health
• University of Michigan School of Public Health
• Wayne State University
• University of Minnesota School of Public Health
• University of Minnesota Medical School
• University of Oxford
• University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health
• University of South Florida College of Public Health
• University of Southern California
• University of Victoria
• University of Washington School of Public Health
• University of Wisconsin Madison
• University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston School of Public Health

• Building relationships and trust among Leadership Institute Fellows, mentors, and staff
• Developing a shared analysis around racial justice, health equity, and power
• Learning how to use a transformative organizing approach to advance health equity
• Sharing experiences and lessons learned across organizations
• Articulating a vision for personal growth and leadership, and exploring and aligning sense of purpose

• Policy Influence: Our research and advocacy have contributed to dignified housing policies, eliminated discriminatory housing practices, and mobilized public health agencies in housing justice campaigns.
• Changing the narrative to center health: We leverage narrative strategy to position housing as a building block of health.
• Building a new base of public health support: HIP’s California-based Housing Justice as Health Equity Collaborative strengthens public health’s role in advancing stable and affordable housing.
• Bridging health agencies and housing justice organizations: We foster collaborations between health departments and tenant rights movements to enhance tenant protections and support policies like Right to Counsel for eviction defense.

• ‍Integrating the head and the heart to make space for how our bodies and hearts feel when transforming organizational relationships, practice, and culture
• Advancing equity and justice through concrete policy and structural change ‍
• Leveraging, shifting, and sharing power with communities, and aligning with social movement‍
• Cultivating visionary, strategic, and authentic leadership to grow liberation culture

• Conducting public health research in close partnership with grassroots community organizations working on abolitionist policy and budget campaigns
• Using a health lens to advance policies that dismantle the prison industrial complex and disentangle care from punishment (e.g., by supporting community-based health infrastructure, like non-police mental health crisis response)
• Building capacity for public health students, staff, faculty, and alumni to recognize and organize for abolition as a public health strategy via our Abolitionist Public Health Student Network
• ‍Making the case for why all forms of state violence are a public health crisis— and how abolition offers a transformative framework to advance health equity and healing

• Supporting community power-building organizations and networks in their climate justice campaigns with public health advocacy, organizing, research, and narratives
• Advocating with climate justice organizing networks to advance fossil fuel accountability and transformative solutions, such as through the Fossil Free for Health Coalition, the California Green New Deal Coalition, and the Make Polluters Pay Coalition

• Organizing and mobilizing public health organizations and individuals to support climate justice campaigns‍
• Assisting government agencies to adopt policies and systems changes that improve climate and health inequities
• Shifting the narrative about climate and health equity, by challenging dominant narratives that stop effective climate action and replacing them with transformative narratives about how just climate policies can create safe, dignified, and healthy jobs, housing, and communities
• Providing policy-driven research on health equity impacts to support campaigns and movements

• Applying public health evidence to uphold worker-led campaigns to improve wages, benefits, and working conditions; protect workers and their families from climate harms; promote unionization and worker voice; and transform our economic system
• Building the movement for economic justice within public health, modeling how public health can foreground, research, communicate about, and show up for economic and worker justice

• Bringing public health voices to economic justice campaigns via our Economic Security Speakers Bureau

• Supporting worker-led organizing at some of the nation’s largest employers, including Amazon and Walmart, with partners including United for Respect, Warehouse Worker Resource Center, and others