National Collaborative for Health Equity
Promotes health equity by harnessing evidence, developing leaders, and catalyzing partnerships across the many different sectors that share responsibility for creating a more equitable and just society.
Community-Campus Partnerships for Health (CCPH)
Fosters partnerships between communities and academic institutions to serve as change agents to improve overall health of communities
National Partnership for Action to End Health Disparities
The mission of the NPA is to increase the effectiveness of programs that target the elimination of health disparities through the coordination of partners, leaders, and stakeholders committed to action.
New England Regional Health Equity Council
The RHECs’ primary role is to initiate action to implement the goals of the NPA and therefore, advance the agenda to eliminate health disparities from the grassroots.
Policy Link
PolicyLink is a national research and action institute advancing economic and social equity by Lifting Up What Works.
The Health Equity Leadership & Exchange Network (HELEN)
A collaborative effort between the National REACH Coalition, Morehouse School of Medicine, and the National Collaborative for Health Equity
National REACH Coalition
The National REACH Coalition (NRC) is a national network of community-based organizations that promotes, develops, and implements health equity programs in both urban and rural communities.
Common Health Action
Aligns people, strategies, and resources to generate solutions to health and policy challenges.
Health Equity Initiative
A nonprofit membership organization dedicated to build and sustain a global community that engages across sectors and disciplines to advance health equity.
The Cultural Wellness Center
“Everyone has a culture and no one culture has the authority to impose a universal truth or reality.”
National Associations of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO)
Advances the capacity of local health departments (LHDs) to confront the root causes of inequities in the distribution of disease and illness through public health practice and their organizational structure
The People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond
“People are not poor because they lack programs and services; people are poor because they lack power.” Undoing Racism workshops.
The California Department of Public Health (CDPH), Office of Health Equity (OHE), Community Development and Engagement Unit’s
Increase access to, and quality of culturally and linguistically competent mental health care and services.
Prevention Institute
Taking a comprehensive, integrated approach to solving complex health and social issues, the Institute advances prevention efforts that address multiple problems concurrently
The Satcher Health Leadership Institute
The vision of SHLI/MSM is to be a leading transformative force for global health equity.
Health Equity Resources
Health Equity and Prevention Primer (Tools and Modules) Prevention Institute
Equitable Development Toolkit, PolicyLink
Toolkit for Community Action -National Partnership for Action to End Health Disparities
New Mexico Public Health Association website toolkit on Health in All Policies:
Making the Case for Health Equity: A Planning Tool, Common Health Action
Community Organizing and Community Building for Health and Welfare (3rd edition). Minkler, M. (2012) Piscataway, NJ: Rutgers University Press.
Leveraging Culture to Address Health Inequalities: Examples from Native
US Government fact sheets on how Affordable Care Act will address health disparities
Unequal Treatment, Institute of Medicine
Faces, Voices, Places: Empowering vulnerable communities. Pan American Health Organization
The Economic Burden of Health Inequities in the US – Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies