Announcements

We’re excited to share 2 new sets of resources that guide government agencies and community power-building organizations (CPBOs) through the why and how of building and sharing power to advance health equity.

Join Human Impact Partners on Thursday, June 23rd at 10am PT and Tuesday, July 26th at 10am PT for a new 2-part webinar workshop series, Power-Building for Health Departments, geared toward health department leaders, staff, and partners. Register here.

Human Impact Partners is hiring a Human Resources Manager and a Capacity Building Program Associate to join our incredible team and support our work centering equity and justice in the field of public health. Both applications are due June 3, 2022. Spread the word and apply here!

This brand new guide is a tool to support community organizers to engage with governmental public health departments and identify opportunities to advance their campaign and policy change goals.

Check out 3 new full-time positions with Human Impact Partners: 1) Senior Research Associate, 2) Director of Policy and Organizing, and 3) Director of Capacity Building! These are exciting opportunities to support our social justice movement partners, as well as our public health allies, via a mix of strategies.   

We’re excited to announce this year’s cohort of Fellows with HIP’s Health Equity Awakened Leadership Institute!

Human Impact Partners seeks an independent contractor to help us identify and implement a CRM/database solution for our organization. We would prefer to work with one contractor through the entire process and will consider an ongoing maintenance contract once the solution is up and running. Submit a proposal here.

Catch up on all the latest from HIP – including a new resource on organizing at the intersection of abortion rights and decriminalization; updates on our ongoing advocacy for equity-centered interventions to address the Covid-19 pandemic; our recent work around economic security and public health; and so much more!

As the year comes to a close, HIP Co-Directors Lili Farhang and Solange Gould reflect on the strength and power of our relationships in the movement for health equity.

Human Impact Partners is hiring a Program Director to lead our Bridging Partnerships and Strategies work! We’re looking for someone with a passion for visioning, designing, and leading systems change processes to achieve health equity, racial equity, and power-building. Spread the word and apply here!

Our Health Not Punishment Director Amber Akemi Piatt reflects on the winter solstice as an apt metaphor for abolitionist organizing.

Support our public health research and advocacy for economic justice this winter.

Our latest research brief looks at the massive benefits to public health and health equity that would result from a $5 an hour wage increase at Walmart.

Catch up on all the latest from HIP – including a new guide for health equity and racial justice in healthcare, research on just immigration policy for unaccompanied youth, organizing updates, capacity building highlights, and so much more.

Join us next Thursday, July 29 at 10am PT / 1pm ET for a HealthBegins webinar introducing a new guidebook, "Bringing Light & Heat: A Health Equity Guide for Healthcare Transformation and Accountability" created in partnership with HealthBegins, Health Leads, JSI, SIREN at UCSF, and HIP.

We partnered with the Dignity Not Detention Coalition to create a resource outlining recommendations for what healthy, just, and supportive immigration policy can look like for unaccompanied youth immigrating to the US, without relying on detention or detention-like facilities.

Apply by July 8, 2021! We're looking for someone with a passion for racial justice via organizational change plus skills in communication principles to make clear, usable guidance for public health organizations.

Catch up on all the latest highlights from HIP with our quarterly roundup of our most recent research, advocacy, capacity building updates, and health equity news.

Can you help us find a passionate new Operations Associate to help strengthen internal operations for our growing team? Apply by June 3, 2021!

We're hiring! HIP is looking for a Communications Associate who is deeply committed to leveraging strategic communications to advance racial justice and health equity.

This brief is the second in a series of three created in partnership with Chainbreaker Collective to examine the context, scale, and public health impacts of the COVID-19 era eviction crisis on renters in Santa Fe.

With support from the California Department of Public Health Office of Health Equity, we created this resource with recommendations and actions that local health departments can take to protect worker health and safety during COVID-19 and beyond.

We're excited to share two opportunities to learn more about the health benefits of police-free schools, with webinars on 4/13 and 4/20 building on our latest Health Instead of Punishment research centering the perspectives of students on ways to best support their health, safety, and learning at school.

Dedicated to health equity in California? Want to build your advocacy skills? Register to participate in ENACT Day 2021 and take action to build skills and advance policies that support our communities' health.

Galvanized by the nationwide movement for Black liberation and years of Black-led organizing, Fresno residents have been calling on Fresno Unified School District to remove police from school campuses. Today, we're releasing brand new research in partnership with Fresno Barrios Unidos on the transformative public health benefits of divesting from school policing, and investing in student health and wellbeing.

View our cross-sector federal policy platform that highlights the demands of communities, movements, and public health organizations across the country for bold, immediate, and systems-focused action to advance collective health. This platform compiles the policy solutions to create economic security, housing justice, community safety, and a strong public health infrastructure—along with ways to take action.

Looking for a summer opportunity to build your communications and advocacy skills to advance health equity and racial justice? HIP is accepting applications for a full-time summer Communications and Advocacy Intern — apply by March 8, 2021!

The COVID-19 pandemic—and the surge of cases and deaths in jails, prisons, and immigrant detention centers—has laid bare the urgent need for decarceration as a public health strategy. This resource includes 8 recommendations and specific actions health departments can take to address the harms of incarceration.

Our new research in partnership with Warehouse Worker Resource Center reveals the physical and mental health impacts of Amazon's inhumane quota and surveillance systems on warehouse workers and delivery drivers, and offers urgent steps policymakers can take to protect public health and worker safety.

Read up for all the latest health equity highlights from HIP, plus new research, tools, capacity building updates, and organizing for the year ahead!