Organizing
Building a public health movement to shift power and transform material conditions
We’re growing a public health movement and ecosystem to transform the social, economic, and environmental determinants of health.
We advocate for equitable policies to shift power to communities most impacted by injustices.
Our goal is for public health organizations and practitioners to actively participate in policy change and advocacy work in partnership with community organizers to advance justice across housing justice, economic justice, climate justice, community safety, and more.
We’re mobilizing a public health movement ecosystem:
- 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.
We’re mobilizing a public health movement ecosystem:
- 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’re mobilizing a public health movement ecosystem:
- 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.
From our partners
Home Sick: Uncovering the Health Harms in Homes of America’s Manufactured Housing Communities
In collaboration with Manufactured Housing Action, we explored the state of housing habitability for 10 Homes of America manufactured home communities, and assessed the health impacts of these habitability issues on residents.
Reimagining Public Health Advocacy: Findings from a National Scan of Public Health and Community Power-building Groups
Drawing on a national scan of nongovernmental public health and community power-building groups, this report explains how we approach our work to shift the field of public health, the research we conducted to better understand the gaps between public health and community power-building organizations, and the implications of what we’ve learned.
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.
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