Building a movement, transforming institutions: A guide for public health professionals

As the health equity movement continues to build momentum, there is now a timely window of opportunity to unite leaders in the public health field to learn, connect, and strategize with one another about how health equity can be The leaders of these centers that advance health equity have become an informal network of leaders over the past several years. PolicyLink has convened them on several occasions, interviewed them, and documented their evolution and activities, seeing in them the emergence of a movement for positive change in the field. Their ideas and actions have informed this document, which is intended to advance this work. The opening section is an account of why it will be important to institutionalize equity in public health practice and what its early advocates have learned about how to bring that about. The second part of the document is a guide to the growing array of resources in the field, designed for easy access to materials on the Internet. (author abstract)