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Annotation: This webinar is a collaboration between The Institute for Perinatal Quality Improvement’s SPEAK UP Against Racial Bias Program and the Massachusetts Department of Public Health. In this video, Dr. Rosemary Chude-Sokei speaks about how proper data collection to better understand racial disparities in maternal and perinatal health as well as the four birth equity goals.

Learning Objectives: • Explain the Institute for Perinatal Quality Improvement’s mission statement • Understand the importance of accurate data collection in making important changes in community health • Outline how to implement organizational change in the community • List the four birth equity goals

Annotation: This webinar, by Duke’s Global Health Institute, features expert’s key findings and recommendations on physical activity and eating habits in children through policy change and community action. Topics covered are current policy interventions, effective food programs, relevant models, current objectives in the field, and summarizes with key takeaways about next steps in improving child health through physical activity and nutrition.

Learning Objectives: • List current policy and environmental interventions in place to improve child health through physical activity and nutrition • Explain the significance of the cost effectiveness analysis • Reflect on the role of food programs in community health • Explain the Head Start project and its effect

Annotation: Efforts are underway to reimagine and transform the data system used in public health so it doesn’t just identify, manage, and respond to disease—it also promotes holistic well-being. Plans for modernizing the public health data system must ensure that it supports a complete picture of all the communities affected by poor health outcomes—as well as the underlying reasons those communities are affected—to inform efforts to advance health equity. Doing so requires a data system that includes upstream influences on health, such as social determinants of health and the policies and systems that perpetuate inequities. It coordinates across public and private sectors. It is inclusive in terms of how and by whom the data are collected, analyzed, and interpreted, and it centers community involvement throughout the data life cycle. This virtual discussion includes experts who are leading efforts across the United States to reimagine public health data to become more effective at promoting the public’s health and addressing root causes of health inequities. These perspectives range across the sectors involved in generating, shaping, and interpreting public health data including philanthropy, local public health agencies, technology, and community-based organizations. The gathered experts will share their experience and vision for transforming the public health data system.

Learning Objectives: • Learn how public health data can be effective at promoting the public's health and addressing root causes of health equity • Learn multiple perspectives for transforming the public health data system

Annotation: As health delivery services evolve and technology advances, healthcare professionals must keep pushing for equity in healthcare. Providers, hospitals, researchers, pharmaceutical manufacturers, and health systems play vital roles in maintaining equity in care delivery. During this webinar, leading experts addressed the immediate actions and solutions that community health leaders and stakeholders can implement to help their populations maintain equity in health care services.

Learning Objectives: • Discuss the importance of continuing the needed push for equity in healthcare. • Learn solutions and implementation techniques to evolving health equity in care delivery.

Annotation: This webinar lays the foundation for much needed work within public health to confront Anti-Black Racism. It provides participants the opportunity to reflect on how they may have upheld and contributed to an unjust system through action or inaction, as well as illustrating pathways to intervene in addressing Anti-Black Racism. The session discusses public health roles for racial health equity action and demonstrate organizational strategies for addressing Anti-Black Racism. Overall, the presenters hoped to create space for reflection, criticality and commitment to action that goes beyond acknowledgements.

Learning Objectives: • Reflect on Anti-Black Racism as a driving force across the social determinants of health • Discuss public health roles for racial health equity action • Demonstrate organizational strategies for addressing Anti-Black Racism

Annotation: In this webinar congresswoman Ayanna Pressley joins the program and engages in a discussion with Dean Michelle Williams and former Rep. Jeff Sánchez about ending racism in public health and other topics.

Learning Objectives: • Explore languages and policies associated with public health and racsim. • Discuss a policy agenda and legal justice system. • Examine gun laws in Massachusetts as well as data collection strategies related to eliminating racism.

Annotation: Utilizing the structure of the Health Equity Framework (HEF), this training spotlight aims to provide trainings that facilitate the translation of science to practice around the complex nature of health equity. The HEF is a science- and justice-based framework for promoting health equity designed for researchers and practitioners working across public health and social science fields. The HEF highlights the explicit and implicit interactions of multilevel influences on health outcomes and emphasizes that health inequities are the result of cumulative experiences across the life span and generations.

Learning Objectives: Strengthen your knowledge base around the four dimensions of the Health Equity Framework: • Systems of power • Relationships and networks • Individual factors • Psychological pathways

Annotation: This is an introductory course on social determinants of population health with a focus on the United States. The course will introduce you to, or reinforce your knowledge of, issues related to health that consider behavioral, psychological and structural factors in population health beyond the healthcare system. You will examine social, economic, and political factors that contribute to health inequalities and suggest innovative ways to reduce disparities in health when the goal is to achieve health equity. This course will increase your awareness, knowledge, and understanding of issues related to behavioral, psychological, and structural factors that contribute to understanding population health and health inequities. We will discuss conceptual and methodological issues key to health professionals working towards achieving health equity to reduce health disparities at multiple levels of influence. There will be opportunities to practice skills involving cultural humility, deliberative dialogues and professional self-assessments.

Learning Objectives: By the end of this course, you will be able to: • Discuss the means by which structural bias, social inequalities and racism undermine health and create challenges to achieving health equity at organizational, community and societal levels

Annotation: This webinar discusses the racial disparities that affect maternal and infant health. Dr. Howell presents a framework that helps describe the various factors that contribute to these disparities. Additional topics covered are NIH funded programs to improve disparities in maternal and infant health, themes and correlations seen in the data, new models of care, ways to tackle health disparities, and shared lessons.

Learning Objectives: • Define a disparity • Review the maternal mortality rates across various races • List the identified themes in mothers who have experienced a severe maternal morbidity event • Briefly summarize some of the data findings and correlations • Explain new models of care involved in maternal and infant morbidity and mortality

Annotation: Professor Magee describes research on how mindfulness has been shown to help increase our emotional resilience; address fears, anxieties, and other emotions; choose how we will respond to injustice; and change unhelpful habits. She also discusses an exciting new area of study: focusing on external mindfulness and its effects as individuals interact with others, their environments, and the array of challenges facing us all.

Learning Objectives: • Understand social identity-based bias. • Learn multiple levels of response to the call for equity and justice. • Discuss the connection between mindfulness meditation and individual psychological focus and how personal stress management plays a role.