Economic Justice
Building worker power for healthy wages, benefits, work conditions, and social policies
The connections between work, economic justice, and health are clear: where workers gain power, they win the wages, conditions, benefits, and social policies that support health.
The COVID pandemic, climate change, and tech automation are converging with an economic system built on dismal wages and working conditions to create an unparalleled moment of upheaval for workers, and especially for people of color and women.
We envision a future where people hold the power to secure the wages, benefits, and conditions essential for health and well-being. By amplifying worker-led movements and promoting equitable economic policies, we strive to create a fair and sustainable society where all communities can thrive.
We support economic justice movements by:
- 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
We support economic justice movements by:
- 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
We support economic justice movements by:
- 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
From our partners
“HIP’s support for United for Respect’s campaigns against Walmart and Amazon is a model for the important role the health field can play in rectifying the imbalances of power between large corporations and their workers.”
Bianca Agustin
United For Respect
Providing California Workers with Free Access to Food Safety Information: A Public Health Imperative
This report describes how the inappropriate use of a public health imperative to require workers to pay for food safety training directly contravenes basic and widely accepted public health principles of providing critical community health information free to the most vulnerable members of a community.
"You Can’t Find a Way Out": The Wine Industry’s Responsibility for Risks to Frontline Farmworkers
Research brief in partnership with North Bay Jobs with Justice describing how wine industry and governmental labor policies harm Sonoma County farmworkers' safety and economic security in the context of climate crises.
