This recorded webinar episode produced by the American Public Health Association describes the Environmental Justice Index (EJI), the first national, place-based tool designed to measure the cumulative impacts of environmental burden through the lens of human health and health equity. This webinar discusses the development… Read More »The Environmental Justice Index: Ranking Cumulative Health Impacts
The National LGBTQIA+ Health Education Center provides educational programs, resources, and consultation with health organizations to optimize high quality and cost-effective healthcare for members of the LGBTQIA+ community. Their learning resources include learning modules, publications, toolkits, videos, and webinars covering a variety of topics related… Read More »National LGBTQIA+ Health Education Center
The American Hospital Association and the Institute for Diversity and Health Equity have teamed up to provide a list of resources that organizations can utilize to advance health equity in communities and healthcare settings. This extensive list describes and links resources that fall under the… Read More »Essential Health Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Resources
Healing Through Policy: Creating Pathways to Racial Justice is an initiative of the de Beaumont Foundation, the American Public Health Association, and the National Collaborative for Health Equity. The goal of the first stage of the project is to curate a set of policies and practices that… Read More »Healing Through Policy: Creating Pathways to Racial Justice
View the sixth installment of the Building Health Equity webinar series: Improving Health Equity in the LGBTQIA+ Community. We featured Max Mowitz, program director at One Iowa, and A-M Racila, post-doctoral research fellow in the University of Iowa Department of Internal Medicine. We discussed what… Read More »Recorded Webinar | Building Health Equity Webinar Series: Improving Health Equity in the LGBTQIA+ Community
Developed by Bayard Love and Deena Hayes-Greene from the Racial Equity Institute, the Groundwater Approach is a metaphorical framework for analyzing racism in the United States. Examples in this document, embedded below, can help deepen understandings of the manifestations of institutional racism. We hope that… Read More »The Groundwater Approach: Building a Practical Understanding of Structural Racism
The Des Moines Area Religious Council (DMARC) has produced a report of the data, demographics, and disparities among their food pantry beneficiaries for the year 2022. This document may be of interest to those working in the Des Moines, Iowa area. Some of DMARC’s key… Read More »Portrait of a Food Pantry Visitor: Data, Demographics, and Disparities
Who: The Building Health Equity training program is intended for health department employees across the state of Iowa. We are a team of public health practitioners, faculty, staff, and students who are committed to pursuing health equity. We are not experts on this subject, rather… Read More »Building Health Equity Training Program
In this Exploring Racial Equity and Access in Our Food System: Racism in the Value Chain of Food and Beverage webinar, explore historical and current inequities in starting-up a food or beverage-based business. Panelists speak on their experience in being a BIPOC owner and working, marketing, and… Read More »Exploring Racial Equity and Access in Our Food System: Racism in the Value Chain of Food and Beverage
Examine the history of agricultural land ownership disparities and historical lockouts of financing with private institutions and the USDA in this webinar episode produced by Penn State Extension. Panelists speak on their own experiences with operating a farm project, funding, and financing a farm startup.… Read More »Exploring Racial Equity and Access in Our Food System: Financing and Land Access Inequities