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![Leadership Academy for the Public's Health Masterclass Series: Tapping the Power of the Arts and Culture in Improving Health for All](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c8cd9ef3d7cf7526e21c4d/1718033626165-7UKRE62BEU8ORQSTVXX3/2024+0716+WFImage.jpeg)
Leadership Academy for the Public's Health Masterclass Series: Tapping the Power of the Arts and Culture in Improving Health for All
The second webinar in the series focuses on tapping into the power of the arts and culture in advancing health for all. Through sharing specific examples, resources, and ideas, the session will demonstrate the strength and potential of the arts to shape health policy; advance narrative change; strengthen messaging; and enhance the functioning, engagement and effectiveness of collaborations and teams.
![Building Bridges: Strengthening Refugee Communities Through Education](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c8cd9ef3d7cf7526e21c4d/1716233953653-ZLXAPBQYVMRIPOPJPSF7/062424+WFImage.jpg)
Building Bridges: Strengthening Refugee Communities Through Education
This event aims to shed light on the myriad challenges confronted by refugees, with a special focus on refugee students. Through insightful presentations and discussions, we will explore actionable strategies to collectively honor their journeys and determine how we can best support and uplift refugee students and their families within our communities.
![CHWs Working in Diverse Settings - The Hawai'i Exemplar](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c8cd9ef3d7cf7526e21c4d/1717128752331-4KFN6W1MVGY3N81TYC7V/2024+0613+WFImage.jpg)
CHWs Working in Diverse Settings - The Hawai'i Exemplar
Join us for an enlightening conversation with the Hawai'i Community Health Worker Association on their unique history and experience in forming a statewide CHW Association through assistance from the Hawai'i Public Health Institute.
Telehealth in Cancer Care: Strategies for Equitable Implementation in New York State
Join the Center for Health Law & Policy Innovation for a review of key findings from research with diverse cancer care stakeholders in New York State about opportunities, challenges, and policy considerations surrounding the future of telehealth implementation.
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![Linking Patients to WIC and Other Food Safety Net Programs: Perspectives from Health Care](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c8cd9ef3d7cf7526e21c4d/1706895199336-E79RFRJKKEGEFD97PZ7J/022624+WFImage+%281%29.jpg)
Linking Patients to WIC and Other Food Safety Net Programs: Perspectives from Health Care
Join the Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation in conversation with three health care systems driving increased coordination of health care, referrals, and food safety net programs.
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![WEST Environmental Justice Center Virtual Kickoff](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c8cd9ef3d7cf7526e21c4d/1704827095824-939KDVGYTS5GEGLEW9YD/2024%2B0124%2BWFImage.jpg)
WEST Environmental Justice Center Virtual Kickoff
Join the WEST Environmental Justice Center’s team and the Director, Dr. Paloma Beamer, to talk about how you and your organization can move towards environmental and energy justice with our free services.
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![Acting for Public Health: Challenges and Opportunities in Legislatures and the Courts](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c8cd9ef3d7cf7526e21c4d/1693835270376-LV7VSCSO77FPZGQYZ9AX/092723+Cover+Image.jpg)
Acting for Public Health: Challenges and Opportunities in Legislatures and the Courts
Speakers representing a collaborative of public health law organizations will discuss recent legislative and litigation trends to roll back public health authority as well as positive developments.
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![Opportunities in Public Health Law: Building an Equity Minded Workforce](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c8cd9ef3d7cf7526e21c4d/1689264260419-0QGP7265LXM5V6HJ8DDX/2023+0820223+WFImage-2.jpeg)
Opportunities in Public Health Law: Building an Equity Minded Workforce
In this Web Forum, CDC’s Public Health Law Program, NLAPH, and ChangeLab Solutions will explore critical connections between public health law, health equity, and public health practice.
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![Cutting through the Chaos: Reframing Public Health](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c8cd9ef3d7cf7526e21c4d/1681914045453-7GIDTOCNFFQM5RSKAT45/2023%2B0711%2BWFImage.jpg)
Cutting through the Chaos: Reframing Public Health
This session will dive into the framing strategies we all need right now, with examples of how to talk about health equity in conservative contexts, how to rebuild vaccine confidence, and other timely topics.
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![Policy Applied: Addressing Nutrition through Produce Prescriptions in Medicaid Managed Care](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c8cd9ef3d7cf7526e21c4d/1685468636648-G91D0B3OTDMEXO9713B9/2023+061323+WFImage.jpg)
Policy Applied: Addressing Nutrition through Produce Prescriptions in Medicaid Managed Care
Get an overview of a new report from the Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation of Harvard Law School and DC Greens entitled, Mainstreaming Produce Prescriptions in Medicaid Managed Care: A Policy Toolkit and Resource Library. Then hear from a panel of experts on their experiences in navigating these opportunities on the ground.
![2022 National Overdose Prevention Leadership Summit](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c8cd9ef3d7cf7526e21c4d/1667345972685-K0QLDTLYLV5SIK8TWE1O/Theme+PPT+Quinones%2C+Volkow%2C+Hawthorne2.jpg)
2022 National Overdose Prevention Leadership Summit
NOPLS highlights real solutions to the overdose crisis that bridge justice, health care, and public health sectors.
![Strategies in Public Health: Using Law to Advance Health Equity](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c8cd9ef3d7cf7526e21c4d/1663606950710-QZ218PE1XRDP5BNTCX06/2022+0810+16x9+Cover.jpg)
Strategies in Public Health: Using Law to Advance Health Equity
In this Web Forum, the CDC’s Public Health Law Program (PHLP) and the National Leadership Academy for the Public’s Health (NLAPH) consider the relationship between health equity and law.
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![Rocky Times: Why Agile Leadership is Crucial for Impact](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c8cd9ef3d7cf7526e21c4d/1657568554000-UVE13UTD4EYV09L6C4AV/2022+0714+WFImage.jpg)
Rocky Times: Why Agile Leadership is Crucial for Impact
This Web Forum will feature panelists from multi-sector partnerships that are working to advance equity in their communities.
![Stories from the Field: Partnerships for Achieving Health Equity](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c8cd9ef3d7cf7526e21c4d/1654551087964-8AO74EANON6L0ZDHILPU/2022+0615+WFImage+%281920+%C3%97+1080+px%29.jpg)
Stories from the Field: Partnerships for Achieving Health Equity
This Web Forum will feature panelists from three multi-sector partnerships in Michigan, Arizona and California, working to address social determinants of health and improve equity in their communities.
![Big Ideas in Overdose Prevention: Reach People Where They're At](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c8cd9ef3d7cf7526e21c4d/1650300838477-VXY22SCIN697ESXNL1DQ/Bigi+Ideas+Reach+People+where+they%27re+at.png)
Big Ideas in Overdose Prevention: Reach People Where They're At
Join the National Overdose Prevention Network for a discussion with Dr. Maridee Shogren about the importance of promoting overdose prevention services in hard-to-reach parts of America, and strategies to reach people where they're at.
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![The Future of Food is Medicine Research](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c8cd9ef3d7cf7526e21c4d/1646269655389-2AXJYWFD5JY4T7DNH3Z1/Food+is+Medicine+Research.jpg)
The Future of Food is Medicine Research
On January 27th, join Food & Society at the Aspen Institute and the Harvard Law School Center for Health Law & Policy Innovation as they launch the Food is Medicine Research Action Plan.
![Engaging A Learning Community to Achieve the Promise of Lung Cancer Screening](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c8cd9ef3d7cf7526e21c4d/1646419780892-SU79GYSBN0U0OOF0AKGQ/Lung+Cancer+Screening.jpg)
Engaging A Learning Community to Achieve the Promise of Lung Cancer Screening
Jefferson Health has organized a lung cancer learning community that has developed a model program to encourage shared decision making about lung cancer screening, increase lung cancer screening, and reduce cancer deaths in diverse populations. Join us to learn about this program and to discuss a call to action that includes four proposals to operationalize the model.
![Law and Health Equity: A Pathway for Moving Forward](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c8cd9ef3d7cf7526e21c4d/1644988173317-MGHP8Q3RU8BU6N3CFFY4/092321.jpg)
Law and Health Equity: A Pathway for Moving Forward
This is Part Two of a series on public health, equity, and law. Speakers will discuss legal mapping, surveillance, and critical evaluation of implemented policies by comparing population health outcomes across national, state, and local levels.
![Communicating in Conservative Contexts: Strategies for Raising Health Equity Issues Effectively](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c8cd9ef3d7cf7526e21c4d/1649084520675-QBCWGW85RF38J8BYCCL0/071321+WFImage.jpg)
Communicating in Conservative Contexts: Strategies for Raising Health Equity Issues Effectively
In this session, the FrameWorks Institute will share pragmatic strategies for navigating toward justice in red-state terrain. Each recommendation is grounded in evidence from empirical research showing that reframing can help to build common ground on even the most divisive public health topics.
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![Framing Health Equity: Communication Strategies that Work](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c8cd9ef3d7cf7526e21c4d/1649085251093-GAGBCJKQC2XG21I10I01/063021+WFImage+%282%29.jpg)
Framing Health Equity: Communication Strategies that Work
We can’t achieve health equity without moving mindsets past health individualism – and that requires us to conscientiously frame health equity topic. Participants will walk away with practical strategies to define issues more effectively, make innovative solutions come to life, and leverage the power of a good explanation.
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![Hesitancy, Equity, and Transparency: In Conversation with Pastor and Lawmaker James D. Gailliard on the COVID-19 Vaccine Roll Out](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c8cd9ef3d7cf7526e21c4d/1649087211769-K1GRUEYIYAR6A7K75QP9/061721+WFImage.jpg)
Hesitancy, Equity, and Transparency: In Conversation with Pastor and Lawmaker James D. Gailliard on the COVID-19 Vaccine Roll Out
This one-hour discussion is the fourth in the Web Forum series Equity in COVID-19: Bridging the Gap Between Public Health and Policy, brought to you by the Public Health Institute and IMPAQ, an affiliate of the American Institutes for Research.
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![Health Equity and the Cancer Care Continuum in Kentucky: Access to Medically Supportive Food and Nutrition](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c8cd9ef3d7cf7526e21c4d/1649090707817-D7SLAUZ17ICZ225RFURZ/WF+Image+060921.jpg)
Health Equity and the Cancer Care Continuum in Kentucky: Access to Medically Supportive Food and Nutrition
Experts from Harvard Law, the Ohio State College of Medicine, and the Community Farm Alliance of Kentucky will discuss what the research tells us about nutrition and cancer, national trends in food and health policy reform.
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![Hesitancy, Equity, and Transparency: Rolling out the COVID-19 Vaccine](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c8cd9ef3d7cf7526e21c4d/1649172525698-M1L368RT93GYEP9PY4BM/WF+Image+050621.jpg)
Hesitancy, Equity, and Transparency: Rolling out the COVID-19 Vaccine
This one-hour discussion is the third in the Web Forum series "Equity in COVID-19: Bridging the Gap Between Public Health and Policy", brought to you by the Public Health Institute and IMPAQ, an affiliate of the American Institutes for Research.
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![Addressing Health Equity in Cancer Prevention: Spotlight on Radon in Kentucky](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c8cd9ef3d7cf7526e21c4d/1649178259606-FC1MOSWNKO4ZB3AD15ZC/WF+Image+042821.jpg)
Addressing Health Equity in Cancer Prevention: Spotlight on Radon in Kentucky
Join the Kentucky Cancer Consortium, the Center for Health Law & Policy Innovation, and Kentucky’s foremost experts on radon and public health for a discussion on leveraging radon policy to promote health equity.
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![Mainstreaming Produce Prescriptions: A Policy Strategy Report](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c8cd9ef3d7cf7526e21c4d/1648834988674-PPGUFP60I9P1IVBDIZHN/WF+Image+032621.jpg)
Mainstreaming Produce Prescriptions: A Policy Strategy Report
This Web Forum will provide an overview of key findings from the report on Produce Prescription Programs in the US as well as insights from experts in the produce prescription field.
![Bridging Researchers and Impacted Communities for Health Equity in Breast Cancer](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c8cd9ef3d7cf7526e21c4d/1647537974796-VFIVL692E6A71ENVAVSO/Bridging+Researchers+and+Impacted+Communities+for+Health+Equity+in+Breast+Cancer.jpg)
Bridging Researchers and Impacted Communities for Health Equity in Breast Cancer
Join us for the first in our Advancing Health Equity in Breast Cancer series to learn how cancer advocates and scientists are partnering to improve equity in prevention, treatment and quality of life, and how you can get involved.
![Mental Health First Aid in Schools: Connecting Public Health, Policy, & Equity in COVID-19](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c8cd9ef3d7cf7526e21c4d/1649197951629-M1UZ7TQAYOKJVNWOFYUB/121520+WF+Image.jpg)
Mental Health First Aid in Schools: Connecting Public Health, Policy, & Equity in COVID-19
This event will address the lessons learned from the 2020 school year and potential approaches for 2021. How communities, advocates, researchers, and policymakers can partner with one another to implement Mental Health First Aid during the pandemic.
![Caring for Kids in the COVID-19 Era: Promoting Health Equity and Value](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c8cd9ef3d7cf7526e21c4d/1649691964050-ISZF5GZVW6JABBTUDUQQ/092920+WF+Image.jpg)
Caring for Kids in the COVID-19 Era: Promoting Health Equity and Value
This Web Forum will include 2 panel discussions focused on caring for children in the COVID era.
![Ending the Triple Pandemic: Advancing Racial Equity by Promoting Health, Economic Opportunity and Criminal Justice Reform](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c8cd9ef3d7cf7526e21c4d/1649688034172-JOERQEGLQ5GQ13AKS6NZ/073020%2BWFImage.jpg)
Ending the Triple Pandemic: Advancing Racial Equity by Promoting Health, Economic Opportunity and Criminal Justice Reform
This Web Forum will highlight the disproportionate and long-existing economic and health disparities among people who are housing insecure or experience homelessness.
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![Equity Through Public Health Law](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c8cd9ef3d7cf7526e21c4d/1649302077856-WX7XG3LJD9PVFAGRAATM/072320%2BWFImage.jpg)
Equity Through Public Health Law
Learn to recognize key principles and procedural rules when exercising public health powers, and gain deeper familiarity with the major laws that shape our health systems.
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![Active Play for All Children: Building Evidence and Advancing a Culture of Health](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60c8cd9ef3d7cf7526e21c4d/1649687078144-2A870HS41K0JQ85C6AWT/071620+WF+Image.jpg)
Active Play for All Children: Building Evidence and Advancing a Culture of Health
This Web Forum will highlight the disproportionate and long-existing economic and health disparities among people who are housing insecure or experience homelessness.
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