Power-building Partnerships for Health
Cultivating powerful partnerships between local health departments and community power-building organizations
Social justice movements and public health belong together.
Power-building Partnerships for Health (PPH) is a 10-month cohort program that deepens relationships, trust, and structures for local health departments and community power-building organizations to take collective inside/outside action toward health equity and racial justice.
PPH supports health departments to leverage their power and take action to contribute to community power-building priorities, and helps community power-building organizations use their power to advance stronger public health policies and practices.
We designed PPH to model what co-governance can look like — where health departments and grassroots groups work together to advance community power-building goals and campaigns, and take strategic action to make government more accountable to communities. Since 2018, we’ve graduated 13 pairs of health department and community organizer collaborations across 3 cohorts and 6 states.
PPH provides participants with:
- Support with navigating power dynamics: Provides a confidential and supportive community to help navigate risky, political, or complex power dynamics
- $25,000 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
PPH provides participants with:
- 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
PPH provides participants with:
- Support with navigating power dynamics: Provides a confidential and supportive community to help navigate risky, political, or complex power dynamics
- $25,000 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
Bridges Over Troubled Water: Assessing the national bridging landscape of partnerships between health departments and community power-building organizations
This report is an assessment of the national landscape of bridging partnerships – collaborations between governmental public health departments and community power-building organizations.
