The pandemic has taken a toll on our mental health, but not everyone is experiencing this in the same way. For today’s NPHW theme, we are exploring mental health through an intersectional and structural lens.
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Category: Health Equity
Personifying and Humanizing COVID Resiliency in Our Communities
Today we are celebrating NPHW by thinking about the role community care takes in building resilience during COVID-19.
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Throwback Thursday: Revisiting CHTI’s “Building Resilient Communities”
Join us in celebrating National Public Health Week! For today’s theme of Galvanizing Climate Justice, we took a look back at our February CHTI training, Building Resilient Communities. […]
Beyond Declarations: Moving Forward to Advance Racial Equity
Join us in celebrating National Public Health Week! Today’s National Public Health Week theme is Advancing Racial Equity. […]
Hindsight is 2020: Rethinking the Role of Public Health in the United States
Join us in celebrating National Public Health Week! Today’s National Public Health Week theme is Rebuilding. This blog takes a look at how the U.S. can move forward from the COVID-19 pandemic by building a more equitable and well-funded public health system.
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Fall 2020 Book Recommendations
One silver lining of quarantine? All the extra reading time! This Fall, to celebrate the cooling weather, we’ve compiled a list of fiction, nonfiction, and children’s books for you to dive into. All these recs highlight the issues we care about, including racial equity, mental health, social justice, and more. We hope you enjoy one (or more!) of the books on this list, happy reading!
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Community Care in the Time of COVID-19
In her book, Emergent Strategy, Adrienne Maree Brown prompts the reader to reflect on the role community plays in our ability, at baseline, to survive, and at best, to thrive. She asks, “do you understand that your quality of life and your survival are tied to how authentic and generous the connections are between you and the people and place you live with and in?” This is an idea that has taken on new meaning in the time of COVID-19.
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Real Humans of HRIA: Stories From Full-Time Parents and Employees
As public health workers, we wear many hats: community organizers, facilitators, content experts, and more. But as COVID19 has propelled us into a time of remote public health work, we wanted to take our hats off to the all the full time public health workers who are also full time parents. Read on for spotlight stories from parents at Health Resources in Action that outline the highlights and lessons learned from parenting in the time of COVID19.
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Why We Need a More Equitable Environmental Health System
Today’s National Public Health Week theme is Environmental Health. This blog takes a look at the field of Environmental Health through an equity lens, highlighting the need for a more equitable system in the US that protects populations that have historically been marginalized and/or ignored, especially communities of color.
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Addressing Gun Violence Prevention With A Public Health Lens
Today’s theme for National Public Health Week is violence prevention. We asked our colleague, Natalie Penhale Johnson, to reflect on the work she is doing with the Gun Violence Prevention Training Center for Excellence, a project that is providing technical assistance and training to 10 grantee organizations that are tackling gun violence as a public health issue. […]