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HIP Health Instead of Punishment Program Director Christine Mitchell joined public health practitioners, formerly incarcerated organizers, and advocates with the FreeHer Campaign to voice support for Vermont Bill H.456, to prevent the construction of new prisons and divert funds to health-supporting community services.

A town hall conversation featuring HIP Co-Director Solange Gould examining how the new Trump administration is addressing healthcare and pressing issues related to public welfare.

Vermont Business Magazine article on public health workers and advocates calling for an end to the construction of a new women’s prison in Vermont, emphasizing the need for trauma-informed approaches that support public health, healing, and recovery, featuring a quote from HIP Health Instead of Punishment Program Director Christine Mitchell.

A new piece from Waging Nonviolence on a coalition of formerly and currently incarcerated women and their allies who have successfully challenged abusive prison conditions and are now working to end women’s incarceration altogether, featuring HIP’s Renae Badruzzaman.

HIP’s housing justice team, Will Dominie and Mariana Huerta, discuss our research on the health harms of corporate landlords and the commodification of housing on KPFA radio. Listen now!

Check out a new Spectrum News 1 segment featuring HIP’s research on how corporate landlords are making us physically, mentally, and chronically ill.

Check out this KPBS feature on the challenge of affordable housing in San Diego, featuring a special interview with director of HIP’s Housing Justice Program Will Dominie discussing our recent study on the health impacts of corporate landlords.

NBC News article by Albinson Linares on HIP’s research report exploring how corporate landlords create conditions that harm mental, physical, and community health.

Artículo de Albinson Linares en Noticias Telemundo sobre los daños a la salud de los propietarios corporativos, que presenta la investigación de HIP sobre el tema y citas del personal de HIP.

Health Affairs Journal article by HIP staff identifies ways to close advocacy gaps within the public health ecosystem, and ways in which public health can strategically leverage its power, resources, and expertise to support social justice campaigns and movements.

Los Angeles Daily News OpEd by HIP's Health Instead of Punishment team Christine Mitchell and Renae Badruzzaman on the urgent need for California to focus on the well-being of our communities by investing in the systems that keep us healthy, and by divesting from the systems that harm.