Creating Thriving Communities: Principles, Partners and Data

The Principles of Our Health Equity Work

 

Infusing health equity principles across all projects and work at the CDC Foundation is one of our six strategies for impact. We believe these principles offer guidance for changing our practices and approaches to ensure we are collectively working together to help everyone live their healthiest life:

 

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Commit to authentic community inclusion, engagement and partnership in how we prioritize and accomplish our work

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Understand, communicate and reckon with historic and current structural racism and systemic injustices

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Promote the building blocks of individual and community health

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Focus on changing systems, both formal and informal, that have created and perpetuated public health inequities

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Catalyze cross-sector collaboration for sustained impact

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Identify and apply lessons learned to inform future action

 


 

Our Health Equity Strategic Priorities

 

Build Public Health Workforce Capacity and Skills

Support a trusted, diverse public health sector with skills, capacities and competencies necessary to lead.

Focus on Cross-Sector Collaboration for Systems Change

Enhance integration of public health and other public and private sector partners to support a holistic community wellbeing movement.

Partner with Community-Based Organizations

Build capacity of community-based organizations to promote vibrant, healthy and resilient communities.

 


 

Data: The Building Blocks of Health

 

Data informs decisions across public health and shapes the narrative of our communities. Partnering with communities to define data questions, determine how the data is collected, analyze the information and share the data transparently with partners and community members are crucial steps to transform our public health data system. To aid this change, the CDC Foundation, with insights from CDC, has developed Principles for Using Public Health Data to Drive Equity, which offer actionable insights to create a more equitable data process.

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Our Health Equity Partners

 

CDC Foundation is thankful to our diverse and dedicated partners with whom we work to address health challenges, including health inequities, across the globe. Below is a list of current organizations partnering with CDC Foundation’s Health Equity and Strategy Office to advance health equity in U.S. communities and beyond. View the full list of CDC Foundation partners

 


 

Video Resources

 

The CDC Foundation created a series of videos expanding on the various impact of public health partners working together with communities to address community needs. The videos are a tool for practitioners to convey how their work creates change and amplify the different avenues for change. The playlist expands the conversation on health equity, the importance of a community-first approach to health data and conversations on systems change approach. Explore the videos today as a resource for additional conversations with your communities and with your partners.