PLEASE NOTE: You must pay a $3 fee to enroll in this CE version of the course. 

If you are NOT seeking CE or a certificate of completion, please enroll in the free version: https://www.mitrainingcenter.org/courses/hepba0219noce

To bring health equity to life in our work, we need to understand the role power plays in transforming our society’s racial, class, and gender structures — the structures that create health inequities. Power takes shape in how communities organize for their own well-being (sometimes called ‘building community power’), it takes shape in the cross-sector alliances we build to influence the political agenda, and it takes shape in how we think and talk about what’s possible to achieve (sometimes called ‘public narratives’).

 

In this 1-hour webinar, Jonathan Heller and Ana Tellez from Human Impact Partners will discuss how these elements of power can be harnessed to operationalize health equity in public health practice. The interactive training will include Midwest-specific examples of health departments taking on narrative change to advance health equity as well as an overview of the HealthEquityGuide.org, a resource tailored for governmental public health organizations.

This course includes a case study based on current events (from 2019) to illustrate concepts of the narrative.

• Recognize the role of building community power in advancing health equity.
• Identify how public narratives are a source of power in policymaking.
• Explain how public health professionals can engage in public narrative change to advance health equity.
• Describe 4 types of strategic practices that governmental public health organizations can use to drive transformational change to advance health equity.

Continuing Education Credit
CE and certificate available for $3.

*We report credits to NCHEC on a quarterly basis: January, April, July, and October.

 

The Region V Public Health Training Center is a designated provider (ID# 99038) of continuing education contact hours (CECH) in health education by the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing, Inc.

 

The Michigan Public Health Training Center at the University of Michigan School of Public Health is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

 

The Region V Public Health Training Center is a CPH CE partner.

 

The Region V Public Health Training Center is supported by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) under grant number UB6HP31684 Public Health Training Centers ($924,899). This information or content and conclusions are those of the author and should not be construed as the official position or policy of, nor should any endorsements be inferred by Region V PHTC, HRSA, HHS or the U.S. Government.

 

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