Reports

Mental Health First: Evaluating Oakland and Sacramento’s Non-Police Crisis Response Program

In light of disproportionate police violence towards those with mental health needs, we partnered with the Anti Police-Terror Project to evaluate their program Mental Health First, a community-led non-police crisis response hotline in Oakland and Sacramento.

July 1, 2025

Toolkits

Immigration Justice Action Guide and Talking Points

In the face of increased state violence through immigration enforcement and militarized response to protest, public health must organize and act. We created two new resources to support public health workers in protecting immigrant rights and promoting immigration justice.

June 12, 2025

Reports

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.

May 6, 2025

Toolkits

The Five Dimensions Toolkit

The Five Dimensions Guide's accompanying toolkit.

April 30, 2025

Toolkits

The Five Dimensions Guide

A comprehensive guide for public health and social movements to build powerful partnerships.

April 30, 2025

Reports

2024 Year in Review

A look back at our collective wins, highlights, and learnings in our work toward health equity in 2024.

March 19, 2025

Products

New Orleans Case Story: A Campaign for Dignity and Respect

How Step Up Louisiana and the New Orleans Health Department used inside-outside strategy to secure an important victory for workers’ rights in New Orleans.

December 18, 2024

Reports

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.

November 25, 2024

Reports

Stop Cop Cities: Invest in Public Health Solutions

Drawing from public health literature and the Stop Cop City movement in Atlanta, Georgia, we authored a research report on the health harms posed by the growing number of police training facilities, commonly referred to as “Cop Cities.”

October 11, 2024

Reports

Corporate Wealth vs Community Health: How Corporate Landlords’ Profit-Seeking Strategies Harm Health

With the guidance of 12 housing justice and public health experts, we explored the threat that corporate landlords pose to housing conditions and public health. We build the case for public health and governmental action to counteract corporate landlords’ exacerbation of the national housing and health crisis.

June 17, 2024

Reports

Turning up the Heat: Climate Change, California Worker Health, and Ensuring Good Jobs in a Climate-Safe Economy

This report explores how climate change and transition impact the health of California workers and the communities where they live.

June 1, 2024

Reports

Strengthening Partnerships between Public Health and Community-Based Organizations

Developed by the CDC Foundation in collaboration with HIP, this report draws upon the experiences of over 144 health department and CBO leaders to make recommendations for how to strengthen partnerships between health departments and community-based organizations.

March 28, 2024

Reports

Advancing Racial and Health Justice Through a Right to Counsel for Tenants: A Primer for the Public Health Field

This primer reviews what right to counsel laws are, how they advance racial and health justice, and ways public health practitioners can support right to counsel efforts.

March 5, 2024

Reports

2023 Year in Review

HIP's 2023 Year in Review offers a look back at what we accomplished in the past year, and some of the key lessons we learned along the way.

February 19, 2024

Toolkits

Building Containers for Health Equity Work

These resources for public health organizations share principles, practices, and tools for building containers and implementing heart-centered practices in their equity work.

January 24, 2024

Reports

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.

July 20, 2023

Videos

Powerful Partnerships for Healthy Communities Video Series

We produced a series of three videos about innovative community-government partnerships that are building and sharing power for health equity.

June 12, 2023

Reports

From Crisis to Care: Ending the Health Harm of Women’s Prisons

We collaborated with Californians United for a Responsible Budget; California Coalition for Women Prisoners; and Transgender, Gender-variant, and Intersex Justice Project to create a research report, fact sheet, and social media tiles about the harms of women’s prisons.

February 1, 2023

Toolkits

Mobilizing for Action through Planning and Partnerships (MAPP) Assessment Tools

We developed three new community health assessment tools - the MAPP Community Context Assessment, the MAPP Community Partner Assessment and the MAPP Power Primer - for local health departments and others to use during Community Health Improvement processes.

January 19, 2023

HIP Research Code of Ethics

HIP’s research team created this Code of Ethics, with guidance from community organizers we have partnered with, to hold ourselves accountable to practicing research that is responsible, equitable, and just.

January 6, 2023

Toolkits

Housing and Health for All: A Research and Communications Toolkit for COVID-19 and Beyond

Developed with the expertise of housing organizers, this toolkit distills public health research into talking points and data access guidance that housing and health advocates can easily plug into their campaigns or communications.

November 2, 2022

Reports

5 Ways Health Departments Can Help Ensure Healthy Voting: 2022

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 3, 2022

Reports

"You Can’t Find a Way Out": The Wine Industry’s Responsibility for Risks to Frontline Farmworkers

Research brief in partnership with North Bay Jobs with Justice describing how wine industry and governmental labor policies harm Sonoma County farmworkers' safety and economic security in the context of climate crises.

October 1, 2022

Toolkits

Resources for Collaboration and Power Sharing Between Government Agencies and Community Power-Building Organizations

This resource guides health departments through the why and how of partnering with Community Power-Building Organizations (CPBOs) to advance health equity, via four guides with activities to build capacity and lay the groundwork for power sharing partnerships.

June 27, 2022

Research & Resources

Mental Health First: Evaluating Oakland and Sacramento’s Non-Police Crisis Response Program

Immigration Justice Action Guide and Talking Points

Home Sick: Uncovering the Health Harms in Homes of America’s Manufactured Housing Communities

The Five Dimensions Toolkit

The Five Dimensions Guide

2024 Year in Review

New Orleans Case Story: A Campaign for Dignity and Respect

Reimagining Public Health Advocacy: Findings from a National Scan of Public Health and Community Power-building Groups

Stop Cop Cities: Invest in Public Health Solutions

Corporate Wealth vs Community Health: How Corporate Landlords’ Profit-Seeking Strategies Harm Health

Turning up the Heat: Climate Change, California Worker Health, and Ensuring Good Jobs in a Climate-Safe Economy

Strengthening Partnerships between Public Health and Community-Based Organizations

Advancing Racial and Health Justice Through a Right to Counsel for Tenants: A Primer for the Public Health Field

2023 Year in Review

Building Containers for Health Equity Work

Providing California Workers with Free Access to Food Safety Information: A Public Health Imperative

Powerful Partnerships for Healthy Communities Video Series

From Crisis to Care: Ending the Health Harm of Women’s Prisons

Mobilizing for Action through Planning and Partnerships (MAPP) Assessment Tools

HIP Research Code of Ethics

Housing and Health for All: A Research and Communications Toolkit for COVID-19 and Beyond

5 Ways Health Departments Can Help Ensure Healthy Voting: 2022

"You Can’t Find a Way Out": The Wine Industry’s Responsibility for Risks to Frontline Farmworkers

Resources for Collaboration and Power Sharing Between Government Agencies and Community Power-Building Organizations

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