In the effort to confront health inequities, public health practitioners are identifying new tools and strategies, like systematically studying and translating laws and policies, while also considering how to strengthen the work they have traditionally done, like collecting and analyzing data to build the evidence base. In this 90-minute webinar, CDC’s Public Health Law Program (PHLP), CDC’s Office of Minority Health and Health Equity (OMHHE), ChangeLab Solutions (ChangeLab), and the Leadership Academies for the Public’s Health (LAPH) will outline some efforts to strengthen the capacity of the public health workforce to understand and address systemic and structural inequities.
The Public Health Law Program will revisit its pathway for law, public health and equity as well as discuss approaches, like legal epidemiology, to better data that can provide context for health disparities and health inequities. OMHHE’s Health Equity Science Team will provide an overview of its strategic goals and programmatic efforts to understand how law and policy can be deployed in community settings to build resilience in times of crisis and to confront equity challenges. ChangeLab will highlight some of its efforts, some of which are in partnership with CDC and PHLP, to understand the challenges and opportunities facing the public health workforce and to build their capacity to pursue health equity.
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