Special Thanks:

We would like to thank the following people for their deep commitment to health equity and for the many hours of thoughtful input and review they provided throughout the development of these modules. 

The guiding core questions in the modules are designed to help you reflect on your health equity work and outcomes in the communities you serve.

We would like to thank you too. We will be incorporating opportunities to add your own questions and examples to the tool. With your input, this tool will become even more useful and relevant. 

 

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE)

Laurie Schneider, MPH

Tara Trujillo, NMN

Rich Marquez, MPH

Kristin Hoagland, MPH

Ali Maffey, MSW

Natalie Roth

Rachel Carmen

Audra Bishop, MA CACIII

Christal Garcia

Gabriel Kaplan, PhD, MPA

 

Our Health Equity Partners:

Indira Gujral, Boulder County Public Health

Molly Gutilla, Colorado School of Public Health

Jessica Forsyth, Denver Public Health

Alyson Shupe, Tri County Health

Jonathan Heller, Human Impact Partners

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Funders:

CDPHE Cancer, Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Disease (CCPD) Grants Program

Health Resources Service Administration (HRSA)

 

The creation of this toolkit and health equity questions would not have been possible without the guidance and inspiration from key resources, including:

• Ross Brownson, PHD and colleagues at the Brown School at Washington University in St Louis for their leadership and development of the Evidence-based Decision Making Framework referenced throughout this Toolkit. 

• CDC. Promoting Health Equity: A Resource to Help Communities Address Social Determinants of Health. https://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dch/programs/healthycommunitiesprogram/tools/pdf/sdoh-workbook.pdf

• Center for Public Health Practice/Colorado School of Public Health. Evidence-Based Public Health. https://publichealthpractice.org/civicrm/event/info?id=341

• Health Equity Guide – A Human Impact Partners Project: http://healthequityguide.org/

• Multnomah County. Equity and Empowerment Lens. https://multco.us/diversity-equity/equity-and-empowerment-lens

• Office of Health Equity. Health Equity Resources. https://www.colorado.gov/pacific/cdphe/health-equity-resources

• Prevention Research Center in St. Louis. Evidence-Based Public Health: A Course in Chronic Disease Prevention. https://www.evidencebasedpublichealth.org/

• The Center for Racial Justice Innovation. Race Equity Impact Assessment Toolkit. https://www.raceforward.org/practice/tools/racial-equity-impact-assessment-toolkit