​Workshops

Health Equity Initiative's team and volunteer facilitators have extensive experience on professional development programs and training across professional sectors, communities and topics. We offer half day (9:00 am-12:00pm) and full-day (9:00am to 4:00 pm) workshops on a variety of health equity-related topics to organizations and communities in the public, nonprofit, and private sectors. Please contact us here to bring one of our workshops to your organization or community, discuss potential topics that would fuel transformative change in your organization, and learn about our competitive workshop rates.

Examples of workshop topics are listed below. For a sample list of organizations, whose staff members and board of directors have previously participated in our workshops, please click here. For audio-recording or slide presentations of select past workshops, please log in with your member-only credentials.  

Strategies for Multi-Sectoral Partnerships for Health Equity and Community Development
Participants in this workshop will be able to:

• Describe the dos and don’ts of building and managing successful partnerships
• Evaluate the feasibility and cost-effectiveness (time, human resources, economic cost, etc.) of successful partnerships
• Discuss the "language," priorities and objectives of different kinds of organizations and stakeholders in health equity
• Understand and manage potential drawbacks of partnerships
• Explain how to remove common roadblocks
• Differentiate and select different types of partnerships
• Learn about key principles of participatory planning and human-centered design
• Develop a partnership plan as part of your overall strategic and/or communication plans
• Discuss relevant resources and case studies

Why Health Equity Matters: A Look at the Importance of Participatory Approaches and Community Engagement
Participants in this workshop will be able to: 

• Describe inequities in health and health care and related indicators
• Discuss the value proposition of health equity in a variety of settings
• Discuss the role of community and patient engagement in creating the clinical setting-community continuum
• Analyze community success stories for expanding services for areas that have been traditionally underserved
• Identify criteria organizational readiness for community-driven solutions and health equity-related work

How to Pitch Health Equity to the Media
(a recording of a past online version of this workshop is available by logging in our Member-only center)
Participants in this workshop will be able to:

• ​Identify trends on current media coverage of health equity
• Identify the target audience
• Discuss media angles that have worked or not worked within a variety of media settings (print, online, broadcast, social media)
• Review sample strategies and tools to increase coverage of health equity issues within a variety of media
• Discuss media relations as it applies to writers, journalists and bloggers as a fundamental aspect of effective
• Making sure the article you are pitching is legitimate and reflects accurate study results' statistics
• Review relevant case studies and resources

Implementing the Social Determinants of Health Agenda: New Trends, Strategies, and Case Studies
Participants in this workshop will be able to:

• List different socially-determined factors and their contribution to health disparities
• Discuss the importance of integrating a social determinants of health agenda within their work and organizations
• Identify practical steps to analyzing and incorporating a social determinants of health perspective in addressing local health issues and conditions
• Review the link between health equity and socio-economic development (and viceversa)
• Summarize new trends on community action and transformation in support of better chances for better health within different settings
• Describe new trends in re-shaping the built environment for healthy lives
• Discuss practical examples, case studies and resources

Community Engagement and Mobilization: Building and Maintaining Partnership and…Momentum
This workshop will help you:

• Use the basic concepts and skills involved in culturally appropriate community engagement and empowerment within diverse communities
• In collaboration with others, prioritize individual, organizational, and community concerns and resources for health equity-driven programs
• Engage in dialogue and learning from others to advance health equity-related goals
• Identify critical stakeholders for the planning, implementation and evaluation of programs, policies and interventions that seek to address key barriers that prevent people from living healthy and productive lives
• Understand how to integrate community mobilization and engagement in your research and practice
• Describe how to implement  community mobilization strategies in the US and globally
• Develop programs and strategies that are responsive to the diverse cultural values and traditions of the communities being served.
• Review case studies on constituency building and mobilization

Health Equity and Health Communication: Strategies to Reach the Underserved
(a recording of a past online version of this workshop is available by logging in our Member-only center)
Participants in this workshop will be able to:

• Review examples of populations that experience the greatest health disparities across different health issues and settings both in the U.S. and globally
• Describe the essential components of communication planning to reach the underserved
• Appreciate the importance of increasing social support of health and community behaviors
• Identify key communication strategies to achieve relevant behavioral and social results among vulnerable and underserved populations
• Discuss communication channels and media used by underserved populations in a variety of settings/ countries
• Describe the importance of community and citizen engagement/social moblization as key communication areas for health equity programming
• Differentiate between linguistic competence, cultural competency, and health literacy in public health practice
• Review relevant case studies and resources

Assessing Organizational Capacity via the Health Equity-Related Assessment (HERA): An Introductory Workshop
This workshop will help you:

• Introduce Health Equity-Related Assessment (HERA), a participatory strategic tool to identify key parameters to evaluate your organization’s core competencies and capacity vis-à-vis its ability to remove barriers to equity in health for all
• Apply key criteria to determine the extent to which vulnerable and marginalized populations know about and/or use key resources and services your organization may offer
• Apply “system thinking” to identify training needs and develop the objectives of capacity building programs that would address organizational gaps vis-à-vis health equity issues
• Review relevant case studies, resources and examples re: health equity/health disparities