Web Forums
Learn how leaders work across sectors to improve public health outcomes
Filter by topic or search by keyword (ex. harm reduction)

Big Ideas in Overdose Prevention: Invest in Health Equity
Join the National Overdose Prevention Network for an interactive session where we will explore key questions, challenges and solutions to organize your thinking around health equity.

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.

Equity, Structural Racism, and Public Health Law
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, the implications of structural racism for health equity, and a pathway that identifies strategies for using law to advance health equity.

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.
Watch Recording

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.
Watch Recording

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.
Watch Recording

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.
Watch Recording

Connecting Public Health, Policy, & Equity in COVID-19: An Executive Conversation
Hear first-hand how leaders from across the spectrum of research, policy, and practice are grappling with issues of health equity during the COVID-19 crisis and where they see opportunities for progress.

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.
Watch Recording

COVID-19 and the Impact on Communities of Color: Our Nation’s Inequities Exposed
The Web Forum will highlight the disproportionate impact the outbreak is having on communities of color and the short- and long-term efforts needed to address this impact.

Designing a System of Prevention to Advance Health, Safety, and Wellbeing for All
The Prevention Institute will share its System of Prevention framework, which explains how systems shape health and equity and builds on lessons learned from prevention and health equity initiatives that have dramatically increased the length and quality of people’s lives.

Communicating for Health Equity: A Conversation with San Mateo County Health Department and Youth Leadership Institute
A Conversation with San Mateo County Health Department and Youth Leadership Institute.