Building healthy, equitable communities through equitable laws & policies
- Read our blog post: 10 Local Laws That May Be Doing More Harm Than Good
- Register for the webinar: Building Healthy, Equitable Communities Through Equitable Laws & Policies (April 24)
- Register for the continued conversation: Health Equity Expert Panel (April 26)
ChangeLab Solutions invites you to join the Building Healthy, Equitable Communities Series -- a virtual space for exploring the topic of health equity. In this multimedia training series, we are examining how law and policy coupled with community power can catalyze new opportunities for everyone to achieve their full health potential.
Welcome to the first of our six episodes, Building Healthy, Equitable Communities through Equitable Laws and Policies, in which we discuss health equity as both a principle and a practice. We kicked off the conversation by blogging about the ways that law and policy can create unintended consequences for local communities. Now we invite you to join us for this webinar where we'll connect the dots between health equity and law and policy by discussing
- What health equity means
- How to bring a health equity approach to law and policy (eg, systems thinking, acknowledging history, building resilience, people-centered policy)
- How to effect and sustain equitable law and policy change (eg, implementation, evaluation, enforcement, funding and financing)
This webinar will begin with reflections from JayVon Muhammad on what health equity means for her work as the Chief Executive Officer of the Marin City Health and Wellness Center.
Be sure to check out our continued conversation session, a real-time interaction in which we'll engage a diverse panel of health equity experts to address your questions and discuss hot topics that came out of the blog and webinar.
This episode is only the start of the conversation. To learn more about other elements of a healthy, equitable community, check out the rest of the episodes in ourseries.
About the presenters
Aysha Pamukcu is a senior staff attorney at ChangeLab Solutions, where she uses law and policy to make communities more equitable and inclusive. She leads the ChangeLab Solutions' health equity practice. Through research, training, and technical assistance, she helps communities improve their policies on maternal and child health, healthy retail environments, and just food systems.
JayVon Muhammad is the Chief Executive Officer of the Marin City Health and Wellness Center, a Federally Qualified Health Center with a Mission of African American Health Equity. JayVon uses a community healthcare approach to address the overwhelming disparities in physical and mental health outcome for African Americans; disparities that exist because of institutional racism.
See this blog post for more information: https://www.pacesconnection.com/...s-changelabsolutions
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