Capacity Building
Building the capacity of public health organizations to advance transformative health equity and racial justice practice
We facilitate training, technical assistance, coaching, communities of practice, and leadership development to build the capacity of governmental public health and allied organizations to advance health equity and racial justice.
We envision a future where all communities are thriving, healthy, and liberated from institutional and structural oppression; where communities have self-determination and power over their own destinies.
Our public health system can help build this future — by transforming policies, practices, and culture to explicitly advance health equity, racial justice, and power-sharing with communities. We’re committed to transforming governmental public health because we’re committed to deepening democracy, and to making our public health systems more democratic, transparent, and accountable to communities.
HIP can help you, and your organization, advance this vision.
Our Capacity Building approach embodies the following principles:
- 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
Our Capacity Building approach embodies the following principles:
- 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
Our Capacity Building approach embodies the following principles:
- 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
Our program offerings
Our Program Offerings
Building a Container & Foundation for Health Equity Series
This highly engaging and interactive series teaches foundational health equity and racial justice frameworks and analysis, and supports teams in building the trust and container necessary to do the hard work of addressing racism and other systems of oppression in our relationships, work, and institutions. The series is built around a set of sequential stages, including foundational workshops, Community of Practice sessions, and technical assistance hours.
Customized Consulting and Training
Wherever your organization is on your health equity journey, we offer customized and heart-centered consulting and training to foster systems change, and advance targeted strategies on a wide range of topics, including narrative strategy, power mapping, and equity impact assessment. Trainings can be virtual (minimum 3 hours; up to 30 participants) or in-person (minimum half day and up to 3 consecutive days; participant size varies).
Community of Practice
Our Community of Practice (CoP) is a space where public health practitioners come together to explore, discuss, and develop shared understanding of strategies that advance health equity and racial justice. The CoP model helps participants deepen authentic relationships and “get on the same page” so they can act as meaningful partners in this work. We pair our CoP sessions with foundational workshops, technical assistance, and coaching on various topics to help public health practitioners learn new ways of being together and advance health equity more effectively.
Our Impact
3000+
Over the past 15 years, HIP has built the capacity of 3000+ practitioners to advance health equity and racial justice across nearly all 50 states.
Health Instead of Punishment Steering Committee:
We believe social change work must be rooted in accountability to people directly impacted by criminalization, incarceration, and surveillance, as well as movement leaders.
Aimee Gana
Incarcerated organizer, California Coalition for Women Prisoners
Dustin Gibson
PeoplesHub
Jackie Jahn
The Ubuntu Center at Drexel University, DeeperThanWater Coalition
Rehana Lerandeau
Critical Resistance
Maria Thomas
Beyond Do No Harm
Caesar Thompson
Abolitionist Public Health Student, Racial Public Health organizer
From our partners
“HIP’s Capacity Building team has been invaluable – providing training and TA at every level, from leadership to frontline staff. The training, tools, and support have helped us navigate complex equity challenges. You play a vital role in strengthening local public health, now more than ever."
Dr. Kiran Joshi
Cook County Department of Public Health
Strengthening Partnerships between Public Health and Community-Based Organizations
Developed by the CDC Foundation in collaboration with HIP, this report draws upon the experiences of over 144 health department and CBO leaders to make recommendations for how to strengthen partnerships between health departments and community-based organizations.
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