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

Reports

Stop ICE Transfers: Promoting Health, Unifying Families, Healing Communities

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).

August 25, 2020

Reports

HIP 2020-2024 Strategic Plan

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.

August 2, 2020

Toolkits

How Health Departments Can Advance Safety and Health in Protests, During a Pandemic

Communities across the US are protesting in response to the ongoing police killings of Black people and to wider social conditions that demonstrate a history of structural violence and racism against communities of color. Here are 5 steps that local and state health departments can take to protect public health in the context of these uprisings and demonstrate support for protesters’ and their demands.

June 18, 2020

Reports

Health Equity Policy Platform for Covid Response and Recovery

A cross-sector policy platform to challenge the conditions that create inequities in health outcomes, and inform equitable and just COVID-19 response and recovery.

June 3, 2020

Toolkits

Resources to Challenge Policing and Incarceration as Part of a COVID-19 Response

We partnered with the End Police Violence Collective and Community Justice Exchange to create messaging toolkits responding to policing and incarceration approaches during the COVID-19 pandemic.

May 7, 2020

Reports

Lead Local

Lead Local was a collaborative research project seeking to answer the question: How does community power catalyze, create and sustain conditions for healthy communities? As part of this project, HIP developed a primer on power, housing justice and health equity with Right to the City Alliance and a survey of health departments collaborating with community organizers.

February 27, 2020

Reports

Home is Where Our Health Is: Policies to Improve the Health of Renters in Milwaukee and Beyond

We partnered with Community Advocates Public Policy Institute in Milwaukee to research how the affordability, quality, and stability of housing affect the health of renters, and developed policy recommendations that will improve housing, health, and equity for renters in Milwaukee and across Wisconsin.

February 17, 2020

Reports

Liberating Our Health: Ending the Harms of Pretrial Incarceration and Money Bail

National research report on the pathways through which pretrial incarceration and money bail impact health with considerations for how to prioritize community health instead of punishment. We partnered with Faith in Florida for the first county-specific research brief to inform local policy decisions.

February 4, 2020

Reports

Our Homes, Our Health: Ensuring Climate and Housing Justice for Florida’s Manufactured Home Communities

Research report in partnership with Manufactured Housing Action (MHAction), revealing intersecting threats — of exploitative community owner practices, destructive climate disasters, and ineffective disaster recovery programs — to the health and well-being of Florida’s manufactured home community residents.

December 12, 2019

Reports

Driving Away Our Health: The Economic Insecurity of Working for Lyft and Uber

Research report in collaboration with Gig Workers Rising, examining the health impacts of driving for a ride-hail company like Lyft or Uber.

August 13, 2019

Toolkits

Advancing Racial Equity in Youth Diversion: An Evaluation Framework Informed by Los Angeles County

In partnership with the Los Angeles County Office of Youth Diversion and Development, we created an evaluation framework for assessing racial equity in youth diversion.

June 3, 2019

Reports

Achieving Equity in Lead Poisoning Prevention Policy Making

A report synthesizing deliberations from a national meeting to improve the consideration of equity in lead poisoning prevention policy making.

May 26, 2019

Reports

Keeping Kids and Parents Together: A Healthier Approach to Sentencing in MA, TN, LA

We partnered with Free Hearts in Tennessee, Operation Restoration in Louisiana, and Families for Justice & Healing in Massachusetts to research the health and equity impacts of expanding the use of community-based alternatives to incarceration for convicted parents in each of those states. We produced state-specific reports and fact sheets to inform policy decision-making at the state level on this important issue.

April 5, 2019

Reports

When Poverty Makes You Sick: The Intersection of Health and Predatory Lending in Missouri

Research report in collaboration with Missouri Faith Voices on the health impacts of predatory lending and how the industry unfairly targets vulnerable communities in Missouri.

February 4, 2019

Reports

The Effects of Forced Family Separation in the Rio Grande Valley: A Family Unity, Family Health Research Update

This report showcases the effects on the health of children, parents, and families who live in the Rio Grande Valley when they live in fear of a parent or loved one being deported, or if they’ve already experienced forced family separation as a result of deportation.

October 17, 2018

Reports

Understanding Working & Caregiving: An Analysis of California Paid Family Leave

A report that reveals policy gaps and proposes solutions for how California Paid Family Leave (PFL) and additional workplace policies can serve all working family caregivers as they care for their loved ones in times of need.

October 9, 2018

Presentations

Health Equity Guide Webinar Series

HealthEquityGuide.org is a resource with inspiring examples of how health departments have concretely advanced health equity — both internally within their departments and externally with communities and other government agencies.

August 5, 2018

Toolkits

#HealthyHours: Fair Workweek Advocacy

Research and organizing tools on how unstable work hours affect the health and mental health of workers and families.

June 21, 2018

Toolkits

Developing a Transformational Criminal Justice Narrative: A Toolkit

The Narrative Development Toolkit is a resource intended to support community organizers and health equity advocates in developing, using, and adapting transformational narratives to advance equity in the criminal justice and juvenile justice systems. This resource was developed by a workgroup of the National Criminal Justice and Public Health Alliance.

March 13, 2018

Research & Resources

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

Stop ICE Transfers: Promoting Health, Unifying Families, Healing Communities

HIP 2020-2024 Strategic Plan

How Health Departments Can Advance Safety and Health in Protests, During a Pandemic

Health Equity Policy Platform for Covid Response and Recovery

Resources to Challenge Policing and Incarceration as Part of a COVID-19 Response

Lead Local

Home is Where Our Health Is: Policies to Improve the Health of Renters in Milwaukee and Beyond

Liberating Our Health: Ending the Harms of Pretrial Incarceration and Money Bail

Our Homes, Our Health: Ensuring Climate and Housing Justice for Florida’s Manufactured Home Communities

Driving Away Our Health: The Economic Insecurity of Working for Lyft and Uber

Advancing Racial Equity in Youth Diversion: An Evaluation Framework Informed by Los Angeles County

Achieving Equity in Lead Poisoning Prevention Policy Making

Keeping Kids and Parents Together: A Healthier Approach to Sentencing in MA, TN, LA

When Poverty Makes You Sick: The Intersection of Health and Predatory Lending in Missouri

The Effects of Forced Family Separation in the Rio Grande Valley: A Family Unity, Family Health Research Update

Understanding Working & Caregiving: An Analysis of California Paid Family Leave

Health Equity Guide Webinar Series

#HealthyHours: Fair Workweek Advocacy

Developing a Transformational Criminal Justice Narrative: A Toolkit

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