Category: COVID-19
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Ensuring Equity in COVID-19 Planning, Response, and Recovery Decision-Making
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: This Equity Lens Tool can be used by anyone working […]
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Building Health Equity Podcast | COVID-19 and Health Equity: Lessons Learned and Moving Forward
The first episode of the Building Health Equity webinar series has been converted into a podcast for easier listening on the go! We’ve partnered with the Share Public Health podcast series to bring you this episode. This podcast is formatted from the COVID-19 and Health Equity: Lessons Learned and Moving Forward webinar, discussing the long-term […]
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COVID-19 Vaccination: An Equitable Response
Disparities in COVID-19 vaccination rates across racial and ethnic groups persists in the United States. This is especially concerning given the disproportionate adverse impacts the pandemic has had on minority communities. In order to curb this devastation, health departments’ vaccine plans must center equity. This resource provided by the American Public Health Association outlines some […]
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Bridging the Health Equity Gap: Strategies to Create an Equitable Health System for Latinx Communities
Existing disparities in health care and other health predictors have led to the Latinx community having an increased risk of contracting COVID-19, as well as an increased vulnerability to the negative social and economic impacts from the pandemic. Luckily, the Latinx Advocacy Team and Interdisciplinary Network for COVID-19 (LATIN-19), a coalition created to connect Latinx […]
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Hispanic/Latinx Health Equity: Research, Education, and Initiatives
COVID-19 has shown that the Hispanic/Latinx community in many states has not only experienced a higher number of cases and deaths than the general population, but that the pandemic has also exacerbated preexisting inequities. This website produced by the American Medical Association (AMA) includes a COVID-19 report related to the Hispanic and Latinx communities, leadership […]
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Social Determinants of Health Lessons Learned, Challenges, and Barriers: A Resource for Health Centers, Vol.1
The Association of Asian Pacific Community Health Organizations (AAPCHO), Health Outreach Partners (HOP), MHP Salud, and National Health Care for the Homeless Council (NHCHC), four HRSA-funded National Training and Technical Assistance Partner organizations, released a report on lessons learned, challenges, barriers, and impact stories shared from the four sessions of the “Screening Methods and Using Outreach and Enabling Services to Address […]
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National CAPACD COVID-19 Resource Library
The National Coalition for Asian-Pacific American Community Development (National CAPACD) is an alliance of almost 100 community-based organizations spanning 21 states and the Pacific Islands. Their work aims to improve the lives of the over two million AAPIs living in poverty nationwide. The organization’s COVID-19 resource library provides resources related to Organizational Management & Development […]
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Recorded Webinar | Building Health Equity Webinar Series: COVID-19 and Health Equity: Lessons Learned and Moving Forward
View our first installment of the Building Health Equity Webinar series, COVID-19 and Health Equity: Lessons Learned and Moving Forward. This webinar featured Dr. Martha Carvour from the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine and Mazahir Salih from the Center for Worker Justice of Eastern Iowa, moderated by Kaci Ginn, Project Coordinator at the […]
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NACCHO & BARHII COVID-19 Webinar Series
This free collaborative webinar series explores the key issues public health practitioners face when addressing COVID-19. Strategies to address the impacts that the pandemic has had on health inequities are emphasized. Some of the topics included in the series are “Equity in COVID-19 Public Health Vaccination Efforts” and “Housing Stability, the Pandemic and our Children’s […]
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It’s Not Tuskegee. Current Medical Racism Fuels Black Americans’ Vaccine Hesitancy
While the devastating story of the Tuskegee syphilis study has undoubtedly impacted Black Americans’ trust in medical services, a deeper look into the reasons that Black Americans have received the COVID-19 vaccine at a significantly lower rate than white Americans reveals that other systemic barriers have played a major role in causing this disparity. Read […]