Health Equity Guide
This interactive guide offers 15 strategic practices and real-world examples to help organizations plan, implement, and sustain health equity and racial justice work in partnership with communities.
Narratives for Health Guide
This guide helps organizations understand narrative power, examine the stories that shape health inequities, and develop shared narratives that can strengthen communications, advocacy, programs, and health equity strategies.
Bringing Light & Heat: An Equity Guide for Healthcare Transformation and Accountability
This guide provides a framework, reflection questions, and sample practices to help healthcare organizations and community partners advance racial and health equity while strengthening accountability for meaningful change.
Partnerships for Health Equity and Opportunity: A Healthcare Playbook for Community Developers
This playbook helps community development organizations understand the healthcare sector, identify shared priorities, and build cross-sector partnerships that invest in healthier and more equitable communities.
Health Gaps: A Guide to Continuing the Conversation
This discussion guide provides questions, facilitation tips, and supporting resources that organizations can use to lead constructive community conversations about health gaps, structural barriers, and equitable opportunities for health.
Advancing Vaccine Equity through Community-Based Organizations: Partnering for Vaccine Equity Program Annual Evaluation Report—Year Three
This report documents the experiences of 24 community-based organizations implementing vaccine equity projects and describes the infrastructure, technical assistance, culturally effective outreach, and investment needed to sustain their work.
Respectful Language: Pregnancy & People
Everyone deserves to be treated and described with respect – and there is no exception during the period surrounding pregnancy. When communicating about pregnancy-related topics, it’s especially important to carefully consider language around gender, sex, and sexuality.
This resource offers guiding principles and suggested wording for respectful language to describe the people who experience pregnancy.
Using Race and Ethnicity Data to Advance Health Equity: Examples, Promising Practices, Remaining Challenges, and Next Steps
This report examines how health care organizations collect and use race and ethnicity data, identifies ongoing data quality and governance barriers, and shares promising practices for monitoring and reducing inequities.
Supporting Communities and Local Public Health Departments During COVID-19 and Beyond: A Roadmap for Equitable and Transformative Change
This roadmap offers policy, program, workforce, data, funding, and partnership recommendations for public health departments and community organizations working toward an equitable emergency response and long-term systems change.
Communities in Action: Pathways to Health Equity
This publication reviews the root causes of health inequity, presents community-based solutions, and recommends actions that organizations and partners across sectors can take to expand opportunity and improve health equity.