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10 ongoing, interrelated practices that make equity and justice real in our day-to-day work. Adapted from Advancing Equity and Justice.
Health Justice and Just Transition
As the public health field pushes itself to address the "cause of causes" of unjust health disparities, Just Transition offers new possibilities for partnership and collective action.
COVID-19 Policy Playbook, Vol. II (Chapter 37)
50 top legal experts assess and recommend policy solutions to safeguard health, civil, and human rights.
Toward the Just Governance of Necessities
With a civil rights of health approach, we can work to cure the virus of racism which has rendered us collectively sicker and poorer. We can govern vital social goods for public benefit rather than private gain. And we can build a just infrastructure of provision by recognizing and confronting racism through anti-racist policy.
Anti-racist policy & enforcement
The civil rights of health framework suggests two broad priorities during today's time of crisis: pursuing anti-racist policy as a public good and equitably enforcing law and policy.
Toward the Civil Rights of Health
Civil rights law & public health practice can strengthen each other's weaknesses and, with social movements, give us a new approach to challenging structural inequality.
COVID-19 Policy Playbook (Chapter 35)
50 top legal experts find U.S. policy response to COVID-19 dangerously lacking, and recommend steps to safeguard health, civil and human rights.
COVID-19 & the civil rights of health
It’s time to treat the social determinants of health and anti-discrimination law and policy as health interventions that can both flatten the curve for everyone and close the unjust gap between the privileged and the subordinated.
Flattening the curve & closing the gap: the civil rights of health during a global pandemic
It’s time to treat good jobs, affordable and adequate housing, clean air and water, and above all, anti-discrimination law and policy as health interventions that can both flatten the curve for everyone and close unjust health disparity gaps.
Protect public health through housing
COVID-19 has underscored our housing system’s alarming vulnerability, and shows us that we are only as healthy as the least sheltered, least cared-for among us. We have an opportunity to respond to the urgency of today in a way that transforms the future.
10 Lessons from Activists in Puerto Rico
Lessons from grassroots activists about Puerto Rico's deep-rooted challenges as well as promising solutions & visions for a more just future.
Students need more teachers, not police
Over-policed, under-resourced environments make students feel less safe & supported. What's needed is caring relationships & trust.
Using taxes for health & prosperity
Exploring "sin" taxes and tax credits to create health equity and a pipeline of financing for population health.
Reduce sugary drinks: a policy playbook
An overview of 10 common and cutting-edge strategies for communities to reduce consumption of sugary drinks for health & equity.
The epidemic of trauma at our border
The public health crisis of family separations at our border was caused by government policy, and therefore, policy can help fix it.
6 policies that fall short for families
Learn about 6 federal policies that fall short of their promise to support the health and well-being of working families.
State laws that support breastfeeding
This resource identifies key features of state laws and regulations regarding recommendations or requirements for hospitals related to any of the 10 steps to successful breastfeeding.
10 local laws that may be harming you
Even laws that seem everyday or harmless can have harmful effects on our health and community.
Improving Muslim Youth PE Participation
Education guide for SDUSD P.E. teachers on what barriers may exist for Muslim youth in physical activity and how to help ensure Muslim youth have an environment where they can thrive and live a healthy lifestyle.
Preemption analysis of alcohol taxes
Local alcohol taxes present an important opportunity to improve local health equity and prosperity.
Healthy food policy in San Diego County
This report identifies three key policy strategies (farmers’ markets, community agriculture, and healthy government procurement policies) that jurisdictions can deploy to improve the environment in which people purchase food.
Using healthy food service guidelines
This resource explains how governments can use healthy food service guidelines and provides useful information on how to include them in contracts.
Model healthy housing policies
Our home – the place where we spend the most time – can either promote health or make health problems worse.
Stop banks from gambling our money
Banks can gamble if they want, but they shouldn't be able to do so with depositors’ money, and not with taxpayer money.
Poverty in CA is worse than you think
A shocking 22 percent of Californians are living in poverty. And this burden falls on different families in different places very unevenly.
Slow progress on Dodd-Frank reforms
Dodd-Frank isn’t perfect but if fully implemented as Congress intended, the law accomplishes important market safety checks and consumer protections.
California penalizes poor families
Thanks to a decades-old law called the “Maximum Family Grant,” California’s CalWORKs program punished babies for being born poor and, by extension, punished their entire family. CalWORKs is California’s welfare-to-work program.