Ensuring Equity in COVID-19 Planning, Response, and Recovery Decision-Making: An Equity Lens Tool for Health Departments is a resource from Human Impact Partners in partnership with Big Cities Health Coalition. Their goal was to provide a resource for health departments, and their sister agencies, to:
- Create momentum and (re)energize the practice of applying an equity lens in COVID-19 decision-making by demonstrating its importance and necessity
- Assess how specific decisions will be experienced by specific communities and ensure these decisions work for the people most impacted
- Suggest an approach for engaging with and remaining accountable to communities historically disenfranchised from public decision-making
This Equity Lens Tool can be used by anyone working in a health department’s COVID-19 planning, response, and recovery contexts — particularly those leading or coordinating — who wishes to ensure equity in a proposed decision. However, all those involved in COVID-19 response would benefit by knowing what questions to ask to better hold their colleagues accountable to equity in decision-making.
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