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April 3, 2017
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April 3, 2017
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Keep Your Eyes on the Money: The Wealth Inequities of Current Policy Changes

| By Holly Avey | Let’s talk about wealth inequities. The current presidential administration, including the vice president, the chief of staff, and the emerging cabinet, have more wealth than one-third of Americans combined. Concentrated wealth creates concentrated power. And indications suggest that this particular group of very wealthy individuals may be more […]
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March 21, 2017
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March 21, 2017
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Trump’s toxic budget and fighting for the people’s health

| By Nancy Krieger, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health | Follow the money. This old adage could not be more true now, as applied to the Trump Administration’s budget, released on March 16, 2017.1 This cruel and greedy document (in so many ways) 2–6 savages everything that we in public health and so many others know is necessary for people, […]
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March 16, 2017
March 16, 2017
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New Report on Riverside County Budget Decisions to Improve Community Safety

| Press Release | This report is part of a collaborative effort between the ACLU of Southern California, Starting Over Inc., Straight Talk Inc., and Human Impact Partners to review the impacts of the local criminal justice system on community health in Riverside County. Riverside, CA — In the face […]
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February 6, 2017
February 6, 2017
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Tell me what you’re for, not what you’re against

| By Sara Satinsky | “What can I do?” It’s the question we at Human Impact Partners are asking ourselves, each other, and pretty much anyone who will discuss it — and one that we hear swirling in the streets during these post-inauguration days. A powerhouse panel took on this question at […]
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February 6, 2017
February 6, 2017
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Public Health Awakened: A movement whose time is now

Donald Trump made many promises on the campaign trail, many of which were unconscionable to those working to advance health, equity, and justice. Those promises and the harmful and hateful rhetoric of the campaign are well embodied in Trump’s 100 Days Plan — a set of proposals articulating the Administration’s agenda and […]
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February 2, 2017
February 2, 2017
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New Report on the Health Impacts of Charging Youth as Adults

| Press Release | Researchers and community organizers collaborated on an in-depth analysis of the health impacts to youth and families when 14 to 17-year olds are charged as adults. Oakland, CA — Trailing on the win of Proposition 57, juvenile justice advocates and public health researchers want to make […]
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February 1, 2017
February 1, 2017
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Revocations in Wisconsin: Update on Report Release

| By Sara Satinsky | Last month, we were truly honored to join partners WISDOM and EX-Prisoners Organizing in person to release the new report: Excessive Revocations in Wisconsin: The Health Impacts of Locking People Up without a New Conviction. Despite frigid temperatures in Wisconsin, people came out. Across the state […]
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January 27, 2017
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January 27, 2017
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Immigrant rights are under attack, what public health should do to fight back

| By Jonathan Heller | President Trump’s 100 day plan includes deporting 2 million undocumented residents from the US. The plan represents a massive increase in scale and speed of deportations. Trump says he will focus on deporting undocumented people with criminal records. With fewer of them in the US now as […]
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January 10, 2017
January 10, 2017
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Dane County, Department of Corrections downplay impact of parole revocations

Cap Times article by Lisa Speckhard covering the high rates and negative health impacts of people being incarcerated for breaking conditions of their parole, not for committing additional crimes, related to our December 2016 report Excessive Revocations in Wisconsin: The Health Impacts of Locking People Up Without a New Conviction.
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November 28, 2016
November 28, 2016
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How Public Health Can Show Up (for Police Reform)

| By Sara Satinsky | A mandate of public health is to improve health equity, promote public safety, advance prevention, and strive for social justice. With this in mind, as I process the results of the election and the uncharted, unprecedented future there is a whisper of a question that’s […]
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November 11, 2016
November 11, 2016
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Heartbroken but determined

There’s no way around it: we are heartbroken. The election of misogyny, White supremacy, and LGBTQ hate into the White House in 2016 is a blow to our hearts, our minds, and our souls. We are in deep pain for the many who already live in trepidation of their rights, […]
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October 27, 2016
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October 27, 2016
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Gratitude for Being Invited into a New Community

| By Kim Gilhuly | In mid-September, I attended A Women’s Gathering on Criminalization and Community Health Inequities. The gathering was different in many ways, but one aspect of it really stood out: We were being invited into a community that most of us knew very little about, a community of women […]
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October 25, 2016
October 25, 2016
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Family Caregiving—A Public Health Crisis

| By Kim Gilhuly | This last year was the hardest one of my life. And I’m writing a blog about it because my personal experience is a public health issue. In the midst of taking vacation time off to help my 80-year old mom move into a retirement community, […]
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September 8, 2016
September 8, 2016
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Research and the Arts: Combining Efforts for Policy Change

| By Holly Avey | Several months ago I attended an entertainment event called The Body Political. The show was described by the organizers in the following way: The Body Political is a subversive artistic space created to explore personal stories about our bodies told through performance art. This show […]
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August 19, 2016
August 19, 2016
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How “ban-the-box” policies expose deeper problems with racism in hiring

| By Logan Harris | “Ban-the-box” policies are designed to eliminate some of the barriers that people leaving prison face when seeking jobs. These policies disallow employers from asking people about their criminal records during the initial phase of a job application, removing the “box” that an applicant checks to […]
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July 11, 2016
July 11, 2016
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Oakland rejects coal terminal, sets example on climate change

The Sacramento Bee article by Linda Rudolph and Kenan McGonigle on Oakland City Council's decision to ban the handling and storage of coal in the city — related to our June 2016 report, An Assessment of the Health and Safety Implications of Coal Transport through Oakland.
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June 28, 2016
June 28, 2016
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A Framework Connecting Criminal Justice and Public Health

UPDATE: Our Health Instead of Punishment Program has undergone some exciting updates since we published this blog post. We invite you to learn about our latest work over here. | By Jonathan Heller | HIP has been doing a lot of research about how criminal justice policies and practices affect health. […]
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June 23, 2016
June 23, 2016
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Addressing Race & Power to Advance Health Equity: An Infographic

| By Dawn Haney | As HIP works with more community partners and public health departments to advance health equity, we’re looking for new ways to talk with folks about what we mean by equity. This Equity Infographic contains user-friendly, visual content to share with organizations or individuals who may be less […]
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April 28, 2016
April 28, 2016
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Dismantling the Bars on the Birdcage

| By Sara Satinsky | The recently released Coming of Age in the Other America by Stefanie DeLuca, Susan Clampet-Lundquist, and Kathryn Edin asks the question: why do some kids in the poorest neighborhoods thrive and meet their potential despite overwhelming odds when others don’t? As summarized in an excellently […]
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April 1, 2016
April 1, 2016
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Promoting Health Impact Assessments

Stanford Social Innovation Review article by Lili Farhang and Jonathan Heller, discussing how to bring the social determinants of health into the policymaking practice using Health Impact Assessments.
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