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Prevention Institute Executive Director Rachel Davis joins women leaders in healthcare, health equity, and public health for a broad-ranging conversation about what we’ve learned six months into the coronavirus pandemic and what we still desperately need to do. The podcast guests discuss topics including inconsistent and inadequate data collection, attacks on public health leaders, and the importance of an equitable recovery. Rachel is joined by Dr. Shari Barkin, the Chief of General Pediatrics at the Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt in Nashville, TN and a well-respected community researcher; Dr. Jewel Mullen, the associate dean for health equity at the Dell Medical School at the University of Texas in Austin and a previous public health commissioner in Connecticut; and Chrissie Juliano, the executive director of the Big Cities Health Coalition, which is composed of America’s largest metropolitan health departments.
In this short video, Prevention Institute’s former deputy executive director, Manal J. Aboelata, introduces the concepts of health equity and racial justice and explains why we can’t achieve health as a nation without taking on structural racism. So many of the unjust and unfair outcomes that we see in communities in terms of health, safety, and wellbeing are connected to racism, discrimination, and other forms of racial injustice. That means we need to engage deeply in work that will close racially unjust gaps in health outcomes in order to achieve health, safety, and wellbeing for our nation
This presentation covers advocacy, different types of policy (organizational, regulatory, fiscal, legislative, and legal), and key elements to developing successful policy solutions to advance mental health and wellbeing. It is ideal for those who want to learn the basics of policy making, and for advocates interested in making change through the policy process.
To achieve park equity, people living in communities that have been historically excluded from park-related decision-making must be heard. The materials in this toolkit were designed to support community-based organizations, their members, and others who are building power to secure equitable investments in park infrastructure in disinvested communities.
The Making Connections community sites consistently raise a set of value-based characteristics—features that need to be taken into consideration along with community determinants—necessary for both individuals and communities to withstand stressors and build resilience. Making Connections has identified and characterized these essential elements and they have been clustered into six provisional Pillars of Wellbeing.
In this webinar recording, originally developed for the Making Connections for Mental Health and Wellbeing Among Men and Boys initiative, PI's Ruben Cantu and Sana Chehimi talk about advocacy, different types of policy (organizational, regulatory, fiscal, legislative, and legal), and key elements to developing successful policy solutions. This recording is ideal for those who want to learn the basics of policy making, and for advocates interested in making change through the policy process.