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Strategic Skills for Public Health Practice: Advancing Equity and Justice
A practical guide to reimagining public health as a dynamic, community-led movement.
Strategic Skills for Public Health Practice: Advancing Equity and Justice is a call to reimagine public health as a dynamic social movement rooted in community leadership. Grounded in bold vision and practical application, this book confronts the root causes of health inequities—powerful systems that determine how long and how well we live.
Advancing Equity and Justice challenges practitioners to move beyond limited technical fixes to embrace the moral clarity and collective action necessary to improve health for all.
This guide blends traditional public health competencies—including research, evaluation, and policy—with historical context, systems analysis, compelling narratives, insights from lived experience, and engaging illustrations. It offers strategies to shift and share power with communities in ways that not only level the playing field, but change the rules of the game entirely.
You’ll learn how to:
- Make a compelling case for equity and justice, wherever you work.
- Go beyond surface-level efforts to address the root causes of health inequities.
- Transform the mindsets and narratives that undermine public health progress.
- Leverage multiple forms of power to improve community health.
- Implement and evaluate change more effectively using assurance-based approaches.
- Inspire action and mobilize partners using insights from justice movements.
- Apply practical skills to infuse equity and justice into your daily work.
