Shutdown Power Play: Stoking Racism, Fear Of Culture Change To Push...
HIP doesn’t typically wade into health care reform debates, but the shutdown in DC and the demonization of Obamacare – otherwise known in public health circles as an effort to bring much-needed health...
View ArticleBlack Lives Matter: Intersections of Racism, Discrimination, and Health
I was in Thailand when the Ferguson case erupted. Traveling was a long-held dream come true – up until two years ago I was undocumented and couldn’t risk leaving the country. But even on this two-month...
View ArticleIf Black Lives Matter, We Can’t Stay on the Sidelines
Let’s not sit on the sidelines. With those words Dr. Mary Bassett, health commissioner of New York City, in a Perspective for The New England Journal of Medicine clearly and boldly declares that health...
View ArticleAn Uncomfortable Truth – Our Failure to Address Racism
This blog article is a re-post of an open letter to the public from Dr. Muntu Davis, who is the Health Officer and Director for Alameda County Public Health Department in California. Dr. Davis offers...
View ArticleWas “Race Together” Wrong?
Starbucks’ short-lived “Race Together” campaign, in which baristas wrote the phrase on coffee cups, generated lots of conversations – and lots of controversy. Was it a good idea, but poorly...
View ArticleFair Housing for Better Health
One year after Michael Brown was killed by police officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri, galvanizing the Black Lives Matter movement, the role of housing segregation in perpetuating racial...
View ArticleDignified & Just Policing: Gang Injunctions and Other Policing Practices Have...
Today, HIP and Santa Ana Building Healthy Communities (SABHC) released a report on the health and equity impacts of a gang injunction in the Townsend-Raitt neighborhood of Santa Ana, California. A gang...
View ArticleBuilding Hope with Community: The Right to Affordable Housing in South...
This week’s blog is a repost from Esperanza Community Housing. The post discusses the right to affordable housing in South Central Los Angeles and preliminary findings from HIP’s HIA on a development...
View ArticleIf we want to advance equity in public health practice, we must address race...
This week’s blog post was originally posted on The Pump Handle on January 7, 2016. Most public health practitioners, and those who work on health impact assessment specifically, want to improve the...
View ArticleStrategic Questions to Ask To Explicitly Address Racism and Power in Your...
A few months ago, I wrote about the need for public health practitioners who want to advance equity to explicitly address race and power in their work. I received positive feedback, but also found that...
View ArticleTogether we are Stronger: Intersectionality of Immigration and Incarceration
Last week the Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society launched We Too Belong: A Resource Guide of Inclusive Practices in Immigration and Incarceration Law and Policy at a half-day event that...
View ArticleAddressing Race & Power to Advance Health Equity: An Infographic
As HIP works with more community partners and public health departments to advance health equity, we’re looking for new ways to talk with folks about what we mean by equity. This Equity Infographic...
View ArticleThe Long Road Home: Decreasing Barriers to Public Housing for People with...
For individuals with a criminal history, finding affordable and stable housing becomes extremely difficult in a place like the Bay Area, with high cost and limited supply. People with a criminal...
View ArticleAn Uncomfortable Truth – Our Failure to Address Racism
This blog article is a re-post of an open letter to the public from Dr. Muntu Davis, who is the Health Officer and Director for Alameda County Public Health Department in California. Dr. Davis offers...
View ArticleWas “Race Together” Wrong?
| By Sara Satinsky | Starbucks’ short-lived “Race Together” campaign, in which baristas wrote the phrase on coffee cups, generated lots of conversations – and lots of controversy. Was it a good idea,...
View ArticleFair Housing for Better Health
| By Logan Harris | One year after Michael Brown was killed by police officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri, galvanizing the Black Lives Matter movement, the role of housing segregation in...
View ArticleDignified & Just Policing: Gang Injunctions and Other Policing Practices Have...
| By Darío Maciel | Today, HIP and Santa Ana Building Healthy Communities (SABHC) released a report on the health and equity impacts of a gang injunction in the Townsend-Raitt neighborhood of Santa...
View ArticleBuilding Hope with Community: The Right to Affordable Housing in South...
This week’s blog is a repost from Esperanza Community Housing. The post discusses the right to affordable housing in South Central Los Angeles and preliminary findings from HIP’s HIA on a development...
View ArticleIf we want to advance equity in public health practice, we must address race...
| By Jonathan Heller | This week’s blog post was originally posted on The Pump Handle on January 7, 2016. Most public health practitioners, and those who work on health impact assessment specifically,...
View ArticleStrategic Questions to Ask To Explicitly Address Racism and Power in Your...
| By Jonathan Heller | A few months ago, I wrote about the need for public health practitioners who want to advance equity to explicitly address race and power in their work. I received positive...
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