The first episode of the Building Health Equity webinar series has been converted into a podcast for easier listening on the go! We’ve partnered with the Share Public Health podcast series to bring you this episode. This podcast is formatted from the COVID-19 and Health… Read More »Building Health Equity Podcast | COVID-19 and Health Equity: Lessons Learned and Moving Forward
Disparities in COVID-19 vaccination rates across racial and ethnic groups persists in the United States. This is especially concerning given the disproportionate adverse impacts the pandemic has had on minority communities. In order to curb this devastation, health departments’ vaccine plans must center equity. This… Read More »COVID-19 Vaccination: An Equitable Response
Existing disparities in health care and other health predictors have led to the Latinx community having an increased risk of contracting COVID-19, as well as an increased vulnerability to the negative social and economic impacts from the pandemic. Luckily, the Latinx Advocacy Team and Interdisciplinary… Read More »Bridging the Health Equity Gap: Strategies to Create an Equitable Health System for Latinx Communities
COVID-19 has shown that the Hispanic/Latinx community in many states has not only experienced a higher number of cases and deaths than the general population, but that the pandemic has also exacerbated preexisting inequities. This website produced by the American Medical Association (AMA) includes a… Read More »Hispanic/Latinx Health Equity: Research, Education, and Initiatives
Hispanic and Latino populations residing in the United States not only face high rates of COVID-19 infection, but often face the additional barrier of having limited access to informational materials in Spanish or their native language. UT Health San Antonio colleagues at Salud America! have… Read More »COVID-19 Spanish Language Resources and Latino Health Equity
The Association of Asian Pacific Community Health Organizations (AAPCHO), Health Outreach Partners (HOP), MHP Salud, and National Health Care for the Homeless Council (NHCHC), four HRSA-funded National Training and Technical Assistance Partner organizations, released a report on lessons learned, challenges, barriers, and impact stories shared from the four sessions of the… Read More »Social Determinants of Health Lessons Learned, Challenges, and Barriers: A Resource for Health Centers, Vol.1
The National Coalition for Asian Pacific American Community Development (National CAPACD) is an alliance of almost 100 community-based organizations spanning 21 states and the Pacific Islands. Their work aims to improve the lives of the over two million AAPIs living in poverty nationwide. The organization’s… Read More »National CAPACD COVID-19 Resource Library
View our first installment of the Building Health Equity Webinar series, COVID-19 and Health Equity: Lessons Learned and Moving Forward. This webinar featured Dr. Martha Carvour from the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine and Mazahir Salih from the Center for Worker Justice of… Read More »Recorded Webinar | Building Health Equity Webinar Series: COVID-19 and Health Equity: Lessons Learned and Moving Forward
This free collaborative webinar series explores the key issues public health practitioners face when addressing COVID-19. Strategies to address the impacts that the pandemic has had on health inequities are emphasized. Some of the topics included in the series are “Equity in COVID-19 Public Health… Read More »NACCHO & BARHII COVID-19 Webinar Series
While the devastating story of the Tuskegee syphilis study has undoubtedly impacted Black Americans’ trust in medical services, a deeper look into the reasons that Black Americans have received the COVID-19 vaccine at a significantly lower rate than white Americans reveals that other systemic barriers… Read More »It’s Not Tuskegee. Current Medical Racism Fuels Black Americans’ Vaccine Hesitancy