Health Equity Resources
“Health equity means that everyone has a fair and just opportunity to be as healthy as possible. This requires removing obstacles to health such as poverty, discrimination, and their consequences, including powerlessness and lack of access to good jobs with fair pay, quality education and housing, safe environments, and health care.” Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
This page houses health equity resources and trainings.
State/National Level Capacity Building Supports
Rural Forward- Rural Forwards carries out its mission to build capacity and develop resources that amplify the impact of rural leaders, organizations, and coalitions.
RACE For Equity- At RACE for Equity we advocate for equity to play a central role in the work of every organization, agency, institution, and system dedicated to improving the quality of life of the populations they serve. Through technical training, facilitation, and application of the Results Based Accountability™ framework, we emphasize the use of data-driven decision making to achieve outcomes that center upon the lived experiences of community members.
NC Counts Coalition- NC Counts Coalition is a nonpartisan, nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization committed to building a healthy, just, and equitable North Carolina through cross-sector partnerships that advance systemic solutions for communities facing systemic barriers, including BIPOC communities, LGBTQ+, low wealth, immigrant, and other communities.
Trainings
Creating a Learning Agenda for Systems Change: A Toolkit for Building an Adaptive Public Health Workforce- Many complex and systemic challenges such as racism, the opioid crisis and mental health stand at the root of community health issues. These are challenges that no individual can address alone, and no single solution or intervention will solve. Therefore, the public health workforce needs to have the knowledge and skills to respond adaptively and to engage in multi-sector collaborations and multi-level interventions. Existing public health workforce development models, however, largely address gaps in specific skills or content areas of individual learners and individual competencies.
Health Equity Leadership During and Beyond the COVID-19 Crisis Panelists include Pam Diggs, Co-Founder & Principal, Renewed Pathways, Crystal Dixon, Assistant Professor, UNC-Greensboro, and Cornell Wright Executive Director, NC Office of Minority Health and Health Disparities with Leah Mayo, UNCW Center for Healthy Communities as moderator.
Connecting Cross-Sectors to Advance Health Equity Where it Matters- Recently, we have seen an increase in diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives in the workplace to address public health inequities. The slogan “Nothing for us, without us” has encouraged inclusivity and representation of disparate end-users in the planning and implementation of interventions that address Social Determinants of Health. However, to effectively address disparities, we must reach beyond roles, and collaborate to address multi-sectoral problems that foster inequalities.
Roots of Health Inequity- an online learning collaborative and web-based course designed for the public health workforce. The site offers a starting place for those who want to address systemic differences in health and wellness that are actionable, unfair, and unjust. Based on a social justice framework, the course is an introduction to ground public health practitioners in concepts and strategies for taking action in everyday practice.
Health Equity: Making Your Health Department More Culturally Competent- This is a 90-minute recording of a webinar.
The increasingly diverse and multicultural 21st century US population requires health departments to be deliberate when it comes to ensuring their programs, services, practices and policies do not reinforce health inequities and disparities. A one-size-fits-all approach to public health is no longer sufficient or acceptable. How can health departments increase organizational cultural competence in order to advance health equity and mitigate the social determinants of health?
Supportive Pregnancy Care- Five (5) on-line training videos provide in-depth and practical information on how to implement and sustain a Supportive Pregnancy Care program.
Web-based Resources
UNCW Center for Workforce Development Trainings- UNCW webpage has trainings housed here from various sources.
AMA Center for Health Equity-The AMA Center for Health Equity works to embed health equity across the AMA organization so that health equity becomes part of the practice, process, action, innovation, and organizational performance and outcomes.
UNCW Healthy NC 2030 Indicators- HNC is a set of health indicators with 10-year targets designed to guide state efforts to improve health and well-being. Identifying key indicators and targets allows NC DHHS, the Division of Public Health (DPH), local health departments, and other partners across the state to work together toward shared goals.
UNCW Student Led Implicit Bias Discussion- UNCW students in the Health Equity Fellowship led a discussion with community members on health equity.
Advancing Health Equity and Preventing Chronic Disease/CDC- incorporating health equity into foundational skills of public health.
Health Equity Guiding Principles for Inclusive Communication- emphasize the importance of addressing all people inclusively and respectfully. These principles are intended to help public health professionals, particularly health communicators, within and outside of CDC ensure their communication products and strategies adapt to the specific cultural, linguistic, environmental, and historical situation of each population or audience of focus.
Healthy NC2030- Shares a common set of public health indicators and targets for NC Division of Public
March of Dimes Beyond Labels- Designed for people who work in health-related fields, this interactive site will help you learn how stigma can impact the healthcare and support women need, seek and receive.
Bringing Light & Heat: An Equity Guide for Healthcare Transformation and Accountability-The Guide outlines a strategic process for leaders and managers of healthcare institutions to commit to, own, and advance health equity and racial justice (bringing light) and outlines key questions stakeholders can use to help hold these systems accountable for this critical work (bringing heat). The aim is to drive radical transformation to achieve equity.
CREATING CULTURES & PRACTICES FOR RACIAL EQUITY - The toolkit, developed by Race Forward, can be used to make strategic and equitable decisions in assessing existing or proposed policies, practices, plans, programs, grantmaking, contracting, and budgets. The toolkit includes useful terms, guides, worksheets, activities, as well as information on equitable outcomes and decision making. Use the toolkit to imagine, plan, and implement racial equity strategies into your organization.