Toolkits

Activities to Deepen Your Power-Building Analysis

This suite of resources and activities is designed for governmental health departments and agencies to dive into power: what it is, who holds it, and how to leverage and redistribute it to create more equitable and healthy communities.

June 27, 2022

Programs

Economic Security Speakers Bureau

Engage HIP’s Economic Security Speakers Bureau to help bring public health framing and perspective to your organizing and movement campaigns

May 1, 2022

Toolkits

Public Health 101 for Organizers: What is governmental public health, and how can you engage the field to advance your next campaign?

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.

March 29, 2022

Products

Racial Justice and Power Sharing: The Heart of Leading Systems Change

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.”

February 10, 2022

Toolkits

Liberation is Essential: Leveraging Governmental Public Health Tools to Address the Harms of the Criminal Legal System

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.

January 24, 2022

Reports

Decriminalizing Abortion: How Our Movements Can Organize in Solidarity With Each Other

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.

November 18, 2021

Reports

A Five Dollar Raise Could Transform Walmart Associates' Health and Well-being

Research brief demonstrates the measurable benefits to public health and health equity that would result from a $5 an hour wage increase at Walmart.

October 12, 2021

Toolkits

Bringing Light & Heat: An Equity Guide for Healthcare Transformation and Accountability

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.

July 28, 2021

Reports

Health and Safety for Young Migrants: Recommendations for Supporting Unaccompanied Youth

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.

July 17, 2021

Reports

Shifting and Sharing Power: Public Health’s Charge in Building Community Power

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.

May 22, 2021

Reports

Walmart’s Role in the COVID-19 Pandemic: How lack of paid sick time prolongs the pandemic and increases mortality

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.

April 28, 2021

Reports

Evictions in the COVID-19 Era: A threat to family and community health in Santa Fe

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.

April 20, 2021

Toolkits

California Local Health Department Actions for Worker Health and Safety During COVID-19

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.

April 11, 2021

Reports

Health and Cultural Wealth: Student Perspectives on Police-Free Schools in Fresno, California

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.

March 30, 2021

Reports

Federal Policy Platform for Health Equity Now

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.

February 2, 2021

Reports

Health Departments Taking Action on Incarceration: A Framework for Advancing Health Instead of Punishment During COVID-19

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.

January 25, 2021

Reports

The Public Health Crisis Hidden in Amazon Warehouses

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.

January 14, 2021

Reports

Stable Homes, Healthy Communities: How rent stabilization will support a healthy Colorado

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.

December 16, 2020

Toolkits

Ensuring Equity in COVID-19 Planning, Response, and Recovery Decision Making

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.

December 14, 2020

Presentations

Webinar Series: State Violence is a Public Health Crisis

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.

November 12, 2020

Toolkits

Public Health Guidance for Organizing in the Time of COVID-19

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.

November 5, 2020

Toolkits

5 Ways Health Departments Can Help Ensure Healthy Voting: 2020

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.

October 6, 2020

Reports

Health, Healing, and Housing in Santa Fe: Community Land Trusts, Midtown, and a Vision for Post-Pandemic Development

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.

September 23, 2020

Reports

How Health Departments Can Address Police Violence As a Public Health Issue

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.

September 8, 2020

Research & Resources

Activities to Deepen Your Power-Building Analysis

Economic Security Speakers Bureau

Public Health 101 for Organizers: What is governmental public health, and how can you engage the field to advance your next campaign?

Racial Justice and Power Sharing: The Heart of Leading Systems Change

Liberation is Essential: Leveraging Governmental Public Health Tools to Address the Harms of the Criminal Legal System

Decriminalizing Abortion: How Our Movements Can Organize in Solidarity With Each Other

A Five Dollar Raise Could Transform Walmart Associates' Health and Well-being

Bringing Light & Heat: An Equity Guide for Healthcare Transformation and Accountability

Health and Safety for Young Migrants: Recommendations for Supporting Unaccompanied Youth

Shifting and Sharing Power: Public Health’s Charge in Building Community Power

Walmart’s Role in the COVID-19 Pandemic: How lack of paid sick time prolongs the pandemic and increases mortality

Evictions in the COVID-19 Era: A threat to family and community health in Santa Fe

California Local Health Department Actions for Worker Health and Safety During COVID-19

Health and Cultural Wealth: Student Perspectives on Police-Free Schools in Fresno, California

Federal Policy Platform for Health Equity Now

Health Departments Taking Action on Incarceration: A Framework for Advancing Health Instead of Punishment During COVID-19

The Public Health Crisis Hidden in Amazon Warehouses

Stable Homes, Healthy Communities: How rent stabilization will support a healthy Colorado

Ensuring Equity in COVID-19 Planning, Response, and Recovery Decision Making

Webinar Series: State Violence is a Public Health Crisis

Public Health Guidance for Organizing in the Time of COVID-19

5 Ways Health Departments Can Help Ensure Healthy Voting: 2020

Health, Healing, and Housing in Santa Fe: Community Land Trusts, Midtown, and a Vision for Post-Pandemic Development

How Health Departments Can Address Police Violence As a Public Health Issue

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