This guide is intended to serve as a tool to support community organizers to engage with governmental public health to advance campaign or policy change goals.
Book chapter authored by HIP co-directors Lili Farhang and Solange Gould featured in the new collection “Leading Systems Change in Public Health: A Field Guide for Practitioners.”
We partnered with Critical Resistance to provide examples of how local, state, and territorial health departments can use the 10 Essential Public Health Services to support abolitionist visions and campaigns.
Resource on how abortion decriminalization is part of the larger struggle against policing and criminalization, and how our movements can organize in solidarity with each other.
Research brief demonstrates the measurable benefits to public health and health equity that would result from a $5 an hour wage increase at Walmart.
Health Equity Guide created to provide healthcare leaders with guidance for how to deepen, broaden, and elevate their organization’s health equity work, via a framework and process for transformation and accountability.
We partnered with the Dignity Not Detention Coalition to create a resource outlining recommendations for what healthy, just, and supportive immigration policy can look like for unaccompanied youth immigrating to the US, without relying on detention or detention-like facilities.
Article published in NACCHO Exchange that describes frameworks to explore the concepts of power and community power building as well as ways that health departments can use these concepts as part of a strategy to advance health equity.
Research brief developed in partnership with United For Respect reveals that Walmart could have prevented at least 7,618 COVID-19 cases and saved 133 lives last year with an adequate paid sick time policy — and urges Walmart to institute an expanded and universally accessible paid leave policy for all employees.
A series of research briefs examining the scale and public health impacts of the COVID-19 era eviction crisis on renter households in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
With support from the California Department of Public Health Office of Health Equity, we created this resource with recommendations and actions that local health departments can take to protect worker health and safety during COVID-19 and beyond.
We partnered with Fresno Barrios Unidos to create a research brief about the health harms of school policing and the public health benefits of investing in non-punitive supports for students.
A cross-sector federal policy platform to hold the Biden administration accountable to centering racial justice and health equity, and push further for visionary solutions to support collective health.
The COVID-19 pandemic — and the large number of cases and deaths in jails, prisons, and detention centers — has laid bare the urgent need for decarceration as a public health strategy. This resource includes 8 recommendations and specific actions health departments can take to address the harms of incarceration.
We partnered with Warehouse Worker Resource Center to develop a research brief and two factsheets on the physical and mental health impacts that Amazon’s inhumane quota and tracking systems have on warehouse workers and delivery drivers.
We partnered with United for a New Economy and 9to5 Colorado to research how the housing instability crisis in Colorado impacts the health of low- and moderate-income renters, and developed policy recommendations to repeal the statewide ban on rent stabilization policies in support of public health and equity.
HIP developed this Equity Lens Tool in partnership with Big Cities Health Coalition to support health departments in more directly and routinely addressing equity in COVID-19 planning, response, and recovery decision making.
Health Instead of Punishment webinar series featuring conversations with public health practitioners, advocates, and movement leaders on why policing, incarceration, and all forms of state violence are public health crises—and how abolition offers a transformative framework to advance health equity and healing.
Public health guide offering general best practices and collective care recommendations for protesting and organizing safely during COVID-19, developed in collaboration with Right to the City Alliance to support ongoing anti-eviction and housing justice work.
A healthy democracy is critical for healthy communities, and health departments have a critical role to play to ensure that all communities have a say in the conditions and decisions that impact their lives. Here are five actions health departments can take to ensure healthy voting.
Research brief in collaboration with Chainbreaker Collective on the health impacts of developing a Community Land Trust to stabilize housing in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Owing to the collective work of movement builders and advocates, the field of public health has begun to reckon with the longstanding and well documented health impacts of policing and incarceration. This resource includes 5 recommendations and specific actions for health departments to take to help end police violence.
We partnered with the Asian Prisoner Support Committee and Asian Americans Advancing Justice - Asian Law Caucus to create a research brief, toolkit, and resources to address the health impacts of direct transfers from California prisons and jails to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
HIP's 2020-2024 Strategic Plan is our organizational "north star" for the next four years, outlining a new clarity around HIP's mission, vision, values, theory of change, and the impacts we want to have in the world.
