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Leslie, Kentucky

Lessons for an Equitable COVID-19 Response and Recovery

COVID-19 has magnified deep-rooted barriers to health and opportunity—particularly in Black, Latino, and tribal communities. Leaders from these communities shed light on how we can shape an equitable and just recovery.

Lessons from RWJF Culture of Health Prize Communities on Improving Healthy Food Environments

Obesity is a significant challenge to the nation’s health and economy – costing $209 billion in 2008. Communities across the country are taking action to reverse the obesity trend by changing their local environments to support healthy eating.

A recent article published in this month’s Health Affairs, examined the food-related strategies of the 2013 and 2014...

Letcher, Kentucky

Let’s rap about Health Gaps: CHR&R data & tools to keep us talking

How many people could be living longer, healthier lives if they had the opportunities of those in the best performing counties of your state? This brief, 20 minute webinar short will focus on data and tools to understand the size and nature of health gaps, and to help continue a conversation about how to close them. The Health Gaps Reports and an accompanying Discussion Guide will be featured...

Leveraging Diversity and Building Power

This tool (from Interactive Institute for Social Change) focuses on two strategies for deepening cultural competency and working across differences in ways that maximize creativity, catalyze strategic thinking, and build commitment to shared action. It can be found in Work Together under ...

Leveraging the strengths of public health & health care for a healthy democracy

Public health and health care systems can play an important role in improving civic health. In the third episode of this series, hosts Beth Silver and Ericka Burroughs-Girardi dive into examples of public health and health care organizations’ efforts to increase civic participation. They are joined by Jeanne Ayers, the executive director of Healthy Democracy Healthy People, who discusses both challenges and victories to increase voter registration during the COVID-19 pandemic.  Aliya Bhatia, executive director of Vot-ER, shares how bringing voter registration into emergency rooms, hospitals and community health centers has moved health beyond the exam room.

Levy, Florida

Lewis and Clark, Montana