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The Fierce Urgency of Now:
Messages that Advance Diversity
and Equal Opportunity		Mar 2025The Leadership Conference
on Civil and Human Rights		Messaging GuideContains a four step messaging framework, language that resonates
across demographics, polling insights, crisis response playbook, how
to build effective messages that build coalition. It provides
evidence-based communication strategies for public health
professionals, advocates, civil rights activists so they can defend
DEIA in light of political attacks on advanacement programs.		https://docs.google.com/document/d/
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PHCC Public Health Messaging Strategies:
Public Health Communication Tools		Sept 2025
(latest update)		Public Health Communications
Collaborative (PHCC)		Online Resource LibraryA guide that is updated regularly as public health challenges arise.
Includes messaging guides for vaccine mandates, crisis
communication planning tools, resources for evaluating credibility in
social media; environmental health and climate change guidance;
mental health communication, H.E.A.R.T framework for empathetic
engagement. Helps public health professionals build trust, counter
misinformation, and communicate clearly.		https://publichealthcollaborative.org/
communication-tools/		Notes
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PHCC Training – Communicating for
Change: Strategic Communications
for Public Health		2025Public Health Communications
Collaborative (PHCC) Academy		Online Training Course
(Free)		 A six-module course with videos, knowledge checks, and pratical tips,
It trains on strategic communications planning, message development
and delivery techniques, how to reach target audiences and frame for
racial and health equity.
https://academy.publichealthcollaborative.org/
courses/communicating-for-change-strategic-
communications-for-public-health/
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PHCC Webinar: Communicating with
H.E.A.R.T. in Public Health		2025Public Health Communications
Collaborative (PHCC)		WebinarThis free webinar explores how active, intentional listening and
messaging can build trust in public health. It teaches the PHCC's
H.E.A.R.T. framework, listening strategies that aim to visualize
community perpectives, and balance empathy with data in the
development of communication.		https://publichealthcollaborative.org/
webinars/communicating-with-heart
-in-public-health/ 		Notes
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NAACP Health Equity Guidance FAQMay 22, 2025NAACP Legal Defense Fund (LDF)'s
Equal Protection Initiative (EPI)		FAQ & Legal
Advocacy Guide		 Provides legal clarity on lawful DEIA activities, legal protections
available, recent legal victories, strategies for compliance, and
culturally competent care. Myths v Facts about Trump's executive orders
on health equity and impact on diversity, inclusion, and access to care.
2025-05-22-Health-Equity-Guidance-8.pdf
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Explaining Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and
Accessibility (DEIA), The Trump Administration’s
Recent Actions on DEIA, and the Impact on
Disabled Americans - AAPD		February 16, 2025American Association of People
with Disabilities		Strategic advocacy and
mobilization tools
&
Educative resource
This is a call-to-action for public health professionals and affiliates. It
outlines the executive order's harmful impact on decades' of work on
disability efforts (ex. Schedule A, Section 508), and those working in federally funded public health and health equity work (federal jobs,
research, & civil rights advocacy). Offers clarity on stading legal &
constitutional protections, advocacy tools, and digital safety. Provides
links to legal aid, campaigns, and union support.
https://www.aapd.com/explaining-deia-recent-actions/#:~:text=This%20resource%20provides
%20an%20overview%20of%20what%20DEIA,
including%20Executive%20Orders%20and
%20guidance%20related%20to%20them.
 Civil rights, disability inclusion, policy response.
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Public Health Authority ToolkitFebruary 14, 2024Association of State and Territorial
Health Officials (ASTHO)		Legal & Policy Guide:
Case Studies,
Templates,
Legal Authority Maps.		 Support state & territorial health officials in protecting public health
during emergencies. Defending, understanding, and exercising their
legal authority.		https://www.astho.org/topic/toolkit/
public-health-authority-toolkit/ 		Evidence based resources, legislative examples,
advocacy tools.
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Talking about Health EquityMay 5, 2023FrameWorks InstituteCommunications Helps public health professionals talk about health equity in
politically sensitive environments and resonate with diverse
audiences by using broader/values-based language.		https://www.frameworksinstitute.org/
resources/talking-about-health-equity/ 		Necessary in states where DEIA language is
banned.
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Talking about Racism in Child and Family
Advocacy		January 31, 2023Frameworks InstituteCommunicationsSame ^ + Reframes conversations about racism that help build
rapport for structural change. Counters disinformation and
politicization of terms.		https://www.frameworksinstitute.org/
resources/talking-about-racism-in-child
-and-family-advocacy/
Avoid eupheminisms or vague language. Explain
structural racism in plain language. Shows how
racism affects development/environments, and solutions.
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Health Equity for Persons with Disabilities: Guide for Action
November 7, 2024World Health Organization's Team for
Noncommunicable Diseases,
Rehabilitation and Disability (NCD),		Global Guide; Policy and
Systems Integration.		A planning toolkit for strategic purposes that facilitates governments
and public health practitioners to quantify, design, and implement
inclusive disability health systems. It offers actionable tools (planning
& coordination, assessments, action planning, monitoring &
evaluation tools), indicators, and frameworks compliant with
international standards (SDGs, CRPD) to advance equity in a
non-politicized DEIA language.
https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789240101517
Designed for government use, public health
professionals, researchers, and advocates.
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Executive Orders Affecting LGBTQ+ CommunitiesApr 30, 2025Act for Public Health
FAQs/Policy ResourceExplains recent federal executive orders targeting LGBTQ+
populations, especially transgender and gender-expansive
individuals. It outlines the scope, legal limits, and public health
implications of such orders, and offers guidance to practitioners
seeking to respond to threats to gender-affirming care, inclusive
education, and nondiscrimination protections.
https://actforpublichealth.org/executive-
orders-affecting-lgbtq-communities-faqs/
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Equity in A New Era of Public HealthAug 5, 2025RWJF The Intersection: Where
Anti-Racism and Healthcare Meet
Set:
(1) Guided Grounding exercise method;
(2) Systemic Change Collaborative Strategies;
(3) Policy Guidance & Contextual Analysis
(1) Guided grounding exercise helpsleaders/advocates in cultivating an
internal space for reflection and resilience, how to prepare for sudden
partnerships and visionary problem solving, how to cultivate optimism
navigating systemic or potilical challenges. (2) Strategies of collaboration
in favor of systemic change teach to rebuild trust in public health systems,
maintain local autonomy, collaboration accross sectors. (3) The
Contextual Analysis and Policy Guidace outlines today's landscape of
public health in politics such as reduced data access, distrust in federal
agencies, and partisan threats. Then, shows practical and policy
recommendations to keep advancing equity work.
WATCH! (54 mins) Equity in a New Era of Public Health – The Intersection Where Anti-Racism and Healthcare Meet
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Elimininarting Racism in HealthcareOct 20, 2024Reach Beyond Solutions
3 Phase Structured Framework on policy
development, community
engagement, education and
accountability.
This is a replicable, evidence-based framework whose purpose is to
guide healthcare systems in how to reform systems to dismatle systemic
racism. It consists of three phases: Groundwork (advisory committee of
professionals; convening, interviews, and surveys; actionable
recommendations) → Mobilization (grassroots partnerships; digital tools)
→ Accountability & Evaluation (in person convenings and listening tours).
Eliminating Racism in Healthcare – Reach Beyond Solutions
Could be used as a model for local and state level
initiatives to track progress, report outcomes, and
encourage policy accountability and ongoing
evaluation of systems.
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