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Annotation: Recording of January 11, 2021 webinar where Human Impact Partners and Big Cities Health Coalition discuss their tool to support health departments in addressing equity in COVID-19 response. Featuring Lili Farhang, Co-Director, Human Impact Partners, Heather Jue Northover, Director, Center for Health Equity, Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, and Gretchen Musicant, Commissioner, City of Minneapolis Health Department.

Learning Objectives: • Reenergize the practice of applying an equity lens in COVID-19 decision making. • Assess how decisions will be experienced by specific communities and ensure these decisions work for the people most impacted. • Learn an approach for engaging with and remaining accountable to communities historically disenfranchised from decision making.

Annotation: This webinar will share lessons learned about how to successfully get your Strategy and Evaluation teams to work together to create effective feedback loops. What typically gets in the way – Tradition. Threat to strategy team. Level of effort. Institutional norms.

Annotation: This webinar discusses addressing systemic racial discrimination in the health care system and meeting the moment to earn trust among individuals and communities as COVID-19 vaccines come to market. xxx

Learning Objectives: • Discuss medicaid programs' focus on delivery systems, benefits and reimbursement rates. • Explore the health care workforce: strikes, shortages and staffing requirements. • Hear from caregivers about the complexities of long-term care.

Annotation: The National Standards for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS Standards) were developed as a tool to enforce Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. This history positions the National CLAS Standards as an effective tool for advancing health equity and improving social justice. This webinar focuses on understanding the history of the CLAS Standards and learning how they can be used to advance health equity and social justice by improving access and effectiveness.

Learning Objectives: • Review the history of the National CLAS Standards and their relationship to the Civil Rights Act; • Understand the relevance of civil rights law to behavioral health care practice; • Learn how the CLAS Standards can be used to advance health equity and social justice; • Discuss practical examples of how the CLAS Standards address disparities and improve health equity and social justice.

Annotation: Continuous Quality Improvement is a module within a series based on material produced by the Community Action Partnership and the Association of Nationally Certified ROMA Trainers (ANCRT). The series is comprised of a variety of recorded webinars, workshop PowerPoints, facilitator guides, case study examples, and associated resources. The curriculum is based on foundational ROMA principles and practices, exploring the focus areas for ROMA Next Generation and highlighting how all the elements of the Performance Management Framework fit together. In this video, Barbara Mooney and Carey Gibson from ANCRT provide an overview of the CQI purpose and process for Community Action.

Learning Objectives: • Describe what continuous quality improvement is. • Apply continuous quality improvement to the current situation. • Assess agency readiness for change.

Annotation: This webinar examines the gaps in research on women’s health. Specifically, this video talks about the social determinants of central nervous system dysfunction and the role of residential segregation based on research from HIV populations.

Learning Objectives: • List the four identified key observations • Explain the effects of various kinds of residential isolation • Describe the conceptual model of social determinants on CNS dysfunction • Understand the role of mental health disorders on women’s health, especially in HIV populations

Annotation: This webinar presents an overview of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s (NASEM) report on best suggested practices for public health emergency responses based on a comprehensive review. This video ends with a question and answer session with a panel of members from NASEM’s leadership committee.

Learning Objectives: • Outline the mixed-method review process. • Understand best practices for public health emergencies. • Reflect on the importance of research on emergency responses.

Annotation: This video briefly reviews the connection between health literacy and culture. Specifically, it outlines HRSA’s frameworks for health literacy in relation to sociocultural factors and reviews the concepts of health equity and health disparities. The video ends with the new suggested guidelines to improve communication in a healthcare setting.

Learning Objectives: • Understand the concept of health literacy. • List the sociocultural factors that influence health literacy. • Outline HRSA’s identified cross-cultural communication issues. • Define health equity and health disparities.

Annotation: A commonly asked question across states is “What strategic steps can we take to advance health equity at our health department?” 1 In response to this need in the field the MCH Navigator in collaboration with the National MCH Workforce Development Center created this learning opportunity to assist MCH professionals in answering that question. Originally a full presentation focused on health equity conducted by the National MCH Workforce Development Center, we have separated it into multiple sections for easier access and the ability for learners to quickly locate specific sections of interest. This resource is formatted to include the following sections: an introduction, 10 individual strategies to achieve health equity, a presentation by Nevillene White of the New York State Department of Health which provides success stories applying health equity strategies in the field, and a short wrap up with additional resources provided.

Annotation: Maternal Child Health (MCH) professionals work at the interface of public health, clinical care, entitlement and eligibility programs in health and social services, and education. Rarely does a single database include data on the full range of phenomena of interest for specific research studies. Record linkage can be employed to link records on mothers and children across databases, longitudinally, and across generations. Data integration provides a basis for storage of linkage results for use in future analyses.

Learning Objectives: • Understand how to differentiate between deterministic and probabilistic linkage methods, and select the appropriate methodology. • Describe a framework for data integration of population-based perinatal health data. • Identify examples of research questions in MCH requiring record linkage to obtain the necessary data for analysis.