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Greetings from Health Equity Initiative!
We hope you’re having a restorative spring. As we continue through 2026, HEI remains focused on strengthening connections across our community. Through shared resources, blog posts, social media updates, and conversations in our listserv group, we are committed to creating spaces for collaboration, learning, and engagement.
Looking ahead to the fall and winter, HEI is excited about our plans to launch new initiatives and deepen our engagement with the community. We’re especially looking forward to creating new opportunities to collaborate with community-based organizations (CBOs), bring the health equity community together for much needed conversations and action, and strengthen our collective impact.
In the meantime, we invite you to stay connected by joining the listserv and sharing resources, opportunities, ideas, and reflections with fellow community members, along with keeping up with HEI through the newsletter and our social media channels.
More updates are on the way. Stay tuned!
The Health Equity Initiative Team
| Catching up on Our Health Equity Blog | | Topics include building spaces for LGBTQ+ youth, microfinance as a tool for health equity, the intersection of health equity and health communication, and more! Starting in April 2025, the blog is generously supported by an unrestricted grant by Macy's Mission Every One! | | Don't forget to sign up for HEI's listserv! | |
HEI's listserv is a place to foster connection, collaborate, and share information about advancing health, racial, and social equity. To subscribe, send an email with "Subscribe" in the subject line and your name and affiliation in the body of the email or go to Google Groups.
| | Highlighting Our Grantee Partners | | Learn about how HEI 2025 grantee partners are making an impact. For more information on this program, visit the Grantees Partners webpage. We are proud to have contributed in small ways to this work. More details to follow in our 2025 Annual Report! Stay tuned also for additional information on the future of this partnership program! | | Intern with Health Equity Initiative | | |
Health Equity Initiative is looking for a Blog Writing & Development Intern who will be primarily involved with contributing posts to, and increasing engagement with, the Health Equity Blog. The blog covers cross-sectoral efforts, narratives, news, and stories of hope, healing, community engagement, and partnerships to advance health equity. Ideal applicants will have a background in communication studies and/or public health.
Know anyone who might be interested? Send them to our website to apply.
| | Resources: International Summer Professional Development Program Opportunity! | | |
Last chance to register for the International Summer Professional Development Program on "Health and Risk Communication in Pandemics and Beyond: Strategies for a Systems Thinking, Community-Centered, and Equity-Driven Approach" lead by HEI founder Renata Schiavo. The registration deadline has been extended to June 15, 2026!
Every year, the Institute brings together professionals from around the world to Rome. It features guest lectures and site visits with leading international and national organizations, making it ideal for professionals in public health, health equity, communication, healthcare, global health, international development, human rights, medicine, and community development.
Check out this opportunity at https://aur.edu/sbcc
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Resources: New Book by HEI's Founder!
Health Equity: Strategies for Action
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HEI's founder, Renata Schiavo, co-edited Health Equity: Strategies for Action with Jennifer Weiss, a long-time senior associate at Health Equity Initiative. This book walks you through key principles and practical approaches to advancing health equity and include contributions from 45+ health equity pioneers. Renata and Jennifer also contributed several chapters to the book.
Use the special discount code for the HEI community if you decide to purchase this book on the publisher's site: PSY20 for 20% off.
| | Upcoming Health Equity Conferences | | |
2026 Social Determinants of
Health & Health Equity Forum
June 25th - 26th, 2026
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Center for Healthcare Innovation's 14th
Annual Health Equity Symposium
June 30th - July 1st, 2026
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2026 Black Maternal Health Conference
and Training Institute
September 10th - 12th, 2026
| | Resources About Advancing Health Equity | | |
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation: Where You Live Affects How Long You Live
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World Health Organization: Health Inequality Monitor and Health Equity Assessment Toolkit
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Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Center for Health Equity - Community Health Worker
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American Cancer Society
Grassroots Manager, New York City
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About Health Equity Initiative
Health Equity Initiative (HEI) is a volunteer nonprofit organization dedicated to building and sustaining a global community that engages across sectors and disciplines to advance health equity. By bringing together and enlisting the efforts of the public and private sectors, professions and communities that have both a stake and an influence on social determinants of health, HEI advocates for improving conditions and achieving equity in health for all. We focus on championing transformative change, supporting knowledge, engaging communities and leaders, and building capacity across sectors and disciplines to address barriers that prevent people from leading healthy and productive lives.
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Health Equity Initiative
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Health Equity Initiative is a federally recognized 501(c)3 nonprofit organization. All ontributions are tax-deductible.
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