Advocacy – Page 4 – Collective For Health Equity

Community Power and Health Equity: Closing the Gap between Scholarship and Practice

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This report explores how community power influences health and health equity by connecting research, organizing practices, policy change, and investment in community-led solutions.

Transformational Community Engagement to Advance Health Equity

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This publication explains how community engagement can advance health equity when it shares decision-making power, addresses power imbalances, and is grounded in trust, transparency, mutual accountability, and sustained relationships.

Ending Unequal Treatment: Strategies to Achieve Equitable Health Care and Optimal Health for All

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This report reviews current evidence on racial and ethnic inequities in health care and recommends actions that health systems, policymakers, educators, researchers, and communities can take to achieve more equitable care.

How Present-Day Health Disparities for Black People Are Linked to Past Policies and Events

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This publication explains how historic and ongoing policies, structural racism, discrimination, and inequitable treatment have contributed to present-day disparities in health care and health outcomes for Black people.

Achieving the Health Equity Agenda Through Transformative Community-Engaged Strategies

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An essay examining whether conventional community engagement has reached its potential to advance health equity. It calls for transformative, power-aware strategies that position communities as equal decision makers.

Systemic and Structural Racism: Definitions, Examples, Health Damages, and Approaches to Dismantling

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This article defines systemic and structural racism, explains pathways through which they harm health, and describes approaches for dismantling racist systems and advancing racial health equity.

Women United Together Marshall Islands (WUTMI)

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Women United Together Marshall Islands (WUTMI) works to promote the empowerment of women and gender equality in the RMI. It serves California, Hawai‘i, and communities outside the United States and its territories.

Rural Community Assistance Corporation (RCAC)

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The Rural Community Assistance Corporation provides training, technical assistance, financing, and advocacy to strengthen rural and Indigenous communities across the western United States and Pacific Islands. It serves communities in Hawaii.

ICAAD Human Rights Innovation

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ICAAD Human Rights Innovation creates innovative solutions that disrupt unjust systems to ensure a more equitable future. Its geographic focus includes Outside of the U.S. States, Territories, and Freely Associated States.

‘Ekolu Mea Nui’s

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‘Ekolu Mea Nui’s works to transform Hawai‘i’s justice system through Native Hawaiian cultural practices and values. Its work may be especially relevant to organizations focused on civil rights / social justice.