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The Partners for Advancing Health Equity (P4HE) Resource Library is a virtual portal containing action-oriented health equity research, practice, and policies. The library aims to increase equity in health by offering free access to field-tested, evidence-informed and evidence-based programs strategies and high-quality research.
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- Danya Keene and her team are on a mission to improve health care for unhoused people. Based out of the Yale School of Public Health, the Housing and Health Equity Lab has explored the effects of housing disparities and homelessness on people’s health since its founding in 2020. Her team aims to get a deeper understanding of how access to housing affects health outcomes and develops solutions to…January 2024Advocacy
- Community engagement can harness the skills and talents of a community's most important resource: its people. Involving community members in health initiatives can foster connectedness and trust, improve assessment efforts, and build the capacity of individuals to positively affect their community. Additionally, the engagement can enhance the effectiveness of proposed strategies and increase the…January 2024Community-rooted/Participatory Research
- Key facts:Human rights are universal rights of all human beings, regardless of race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status.The right to health and other health-related human rights are legally binding commitments enshrined in international human rights instruments. WHO’s Constitution also recognizes the right to…December 2023Policy and Practice, Systemic Determinants
- This podcast is produced from a recent Partners for Advancing Health Equity webinar, held November 2023. Moderated by our podcast host, Caryn Bell, she and guests discuss how recognition of structural racism, sexism, and other structural marginalization are the root causes of health inequities. However, it is not enough. Efforts to make changes on the structural level require shifts in power that…November 2023Policy and Practice, Social/Structural Determinants
- On World Evidence-Based Healthcare Day 2023, we celebrate the importance of ‘evidence and global health equity’. The aim of this global initiative is to raise awareness of the need for better evidence to inform healthcare policy, practice and decision-making to improve health outcomes globally. Evidence-based healthcare relies strongly on rigorous research and data to guide decisions, and…October 2023Policy and Practice
- Article headlines in the past year have grabbed readers’ attention by with claims like “loneliness is just as dangerous as smoking fifteen cigarettes per day.” While this statement isn’t entirely correct, loneliness can have a similar impact on heart heath, mental wellbeing, and a number of other health determinants. a number of other health determinants.These findings come at a time when…October 2023Policy and Practice, Social/Structural Determinants
- In this episode, Diverse host David Pluviose welcomes two distinguished guests, Dr. Alonzo Plough and Dr. Thomas LaVeist. Plough is vice president of Research-Evaluation-Learning and chief science officer for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. LaVeist is dean of the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine at Tulane University and chair-elect of the Association of Schools and Programs of…September 2023Policy and Practice
- We are in a historic moment as North Carolina becomes the 40th state to implement Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act. It’s been a long road to Medicaid expansion, but with the passing of the budget and today’s announcement of a Dec. 1 launch date, we are now closer to removing barriers and extending health coverage to an estimated 600,000 North Carolinians. Thanks to the bipartisan…September 2023Medicaid
- In our modern day and age, health care systems and their providers are required to make decisions for millions of patients at a time and only at a moment’s notice. This is not due to the supernatural decision-making capabilities of a few policymakers or doctors. Rather, this is a result of the power of artificial intelligence (AI) and its algorithmic prediction capabilities.We assume that AI…September 2023Policy and Practice
- In this P4HE podcast episode, we talk with Colin Killick, Executive Director of Disability Policy Consortium, about how and why the disability community has been largely left out of the health equity conversation. We cover what health equity should look like for people with disabilities and the Social Model of Disability, its definition of disability, and how this impacts advocacy and policy…July 2023Advocacy, Social/Structural Determinants
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