May 6, 2025
Spanish-language coverage of our report "Home Sick: Uncovering the health harms in Homes of America’s manufactured housing communities," by Alibson Linares for Noticias Telemundo.
March 20, 2025
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.
March 12, 2025
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.
March 11, 2025
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.
November 20, 2024
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.
October 30, 2024
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!
August 5, 2024
Check out a new Spectrum News 1 segment featuring HIP’s research on how corporate landlords are making us physically, mentally, and chronically ill.
July 24, 2024
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.
July 16, 2024
NBC News article by Albinson Linares on HIP’s research report exploring how corporate landlords create conditions that harm mental, physical, and community health.
June 26, 2024
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.
June 4, 2024
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.
May 22, 2024
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.
May 2, 2024
A new piece co-authored by HIP’s Renae Badruzzaman from the Atlanta Community Press Collective explores the public health movement to #StopCopCity in Atlanta.
April 30, 2024
HIP’s Lili Farhang + Julian Drix discuss bridging public health and social movements to drive change on The Commonwealth Fund blog.
April 23, 2024
Inquest article by Cristian Farias on the intersection of abolition and public health, and organizers’ embrace of both in the pursuit of decarceral projects, featuring an in-depth discussion of HIP’s Health Instead of Punishment work.
April 19, 2024
The Davis Enterprise commentary piece by Indira D’Souza demanding California live up to its name as a leader in reproductive health and take care of its Black women, with reference to HIP’s research on the Central California Women’s Facility.
March 28, 2024
In coordination with the Dignity Not Detention coalition, HIP joined the UCLA Labor Center to urge the Biden administration to close southern California’s Adelanto immigration detention center in light of its historic and severe health harms.
February 20, 2024
HIP’s 2023 Year in Review is here: a look back on the wins we fought for and the lessons we learned from the past year, alongside quotes from partners, resources we created, ways we grew together, and more.
December 19, 2023
Article by Chloe Harnar and Akinori Minagawa in the Springfield News-Leader on the city’s exploitative payday loan industry, referencing HIP’s 2019 report “When Poverty Makes You Sick The Intersection of Health and Predatory Lending in Missouri.”
November 15, 2023
KQED article by Tyche Hendricks on climate resilience strategies emerging in hard-hit agricultural communities in California’s Central Valley and the need to ensure funding gets to those most impacted by climate change, featuring a quote by HIP Co-Director Solange Gould.
November 14, 2023
Human Impact Partners’ Capacity Building team is excited to share the second episode of our series: Capacity Building Moments #2: Power in Partnerships, featuring three examples of governmental public health and community partnerships who are working together to build power for health equity.
May 16, 2023
The Street article by Jena Greene on Walmart’s pandemic recovery, featuring HIP’s report on how lack of paid sick time at Walmart prolonged the pandemic and increased mortality.
April 17, 2023
Op-ed by Amber Akemi-Piatt in Truthout on HIP’s research detailing the severe health harms of women’s prisons in California.
April 4, 2023
Build Healthy Places Network video blog post featuring HIP Housing Justice Program Director Will Dominie in conversation with Colleen Flynn on how the AFFH rule can support racial and health equity, and housing justice.
March 20, 2023
The Daily Californian article by Carolyn Yu about the death of Candice “Cody” Vanburen at Santa Rita Jail and community outrage at inhumane conditions in the jail, including HIP’s joint release after the death.
March 10, 2023
The Davis Vanguard article by Patty Yao on HIP’s joint statement with other Bay Area organizations calling to shut down Santa Rita Jail after the death of Cody Vanburen, the fourth person to die in the jail in six weeks.
February 24, 2023
Article in The Davis VanGuard by Belen Avelar on the release of our research report, From Crisis to Care: Ending the Health Harm of Women’s Prisons, and the need for investing in health-promoting community support instead of prisons.
February 9, 2023
Nonprofit Quarterly article on the power of narrative to advance health equity, featuring a discussion of our Health Equity Narrative Infrastructure Project with County Health Rankings & Roadmaps.
July 11, 2022
9News article on organizing around housing justice in Colorado featuring a quote from a 2019 HIP research brief outlining the importance of rent stabilization in Colorado to support healthy communities.
May 5, 2022
Catch up on all the latest from HIP – including a note from HIP on reproductive justice; the latest on our Health Equity Awakened Leadership Institute; a new resource for community organizers to engage with governmental public health departments; introductions to a crew of new HIP staff, and more!
