Health Equity Collective

Venus Ginés from Dia de la Mujer Latina (Houston) will be leading a group of Promotores and Community Health Workers at the Texas Capitol in Austin on April 4th. This is a full day event that will start at 8:00AM and provide continuing education for folks that enroll. Please consider registering and supporting hotel scholarships for folks traveling to Austin. English: https://lnkd.in/geEgXJqM Espa?ol https://lnkd.in/gM_JMzrx Registration Fee: $25.00 (towards hotel scholarships for P/CHWs living more than 300 miles)?via Zelle?@[email protected]? Contact Information:[email protected]?or?281-801-5285 We will then host our monthly Community Health Worker 1st Friday Social to welcome our out-of-town colleagues, show support, and share stories. This event is open to the public and is an opportunity to network across social service providers and other community organizers. This will become a space of unity and solidarity in contrast to the division and hate that many leaders are promoting. Join us in organizing and modeling what community care looks like.

?? Announcing a date change for an upcoming Networking Session: Join us on June 3 for a Virtual Networking Session with Seth Berkowitz, MD, MPH, who will discuss interim results from The North Carolina Section 1115 Waiver addressing non-medical drivers of health. ? Dr. Berkowitz is an Associate Professor of Medicine and Section Chief for Research at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine in the Division of General Medicine & Clinical Epidemiology. He is a general internist and primary care doctor. He studies the relationship between health-related social needs, such as food insecurity, and health outcomes. He is the author of the recent book?Equal Care: Health Equity, Social Democracy, and the Egalitarian State, which examines how public policy can improve population health. ? Scan the QR code in the flyer or follow the link to our Mighty Network in the comments to access the sessions details. Hope to see you there! #DrivingBetterHealthTogether

**The date for this event has changed** ?? Join us on June 3 for a Virtual Networking Session with Seth Berkowitz, MD, MPH, who will discuss interim results from The North Carolina Section 1115 Waiver addressing non-medical drivers of health. ? Dr. Berkowitz is an Associate Professor of Medicine and Section Chief for Research at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine in the Division of General Medicine & Clinical Epidemiology. He is a general internist and primary care doctor. He studies the relationship between health-related social needs, such as food insecurity, and health outcomes. He is the author of the recent book?Equal Care: Health Equity, Social Democracy, and the Egalitarian State, which examines how public policy can improve population health. ? Scan the QR code in the flyer or follow the link to our Mighty Network in the comments to access the sessions details. Hope to see you there! #DrivingBetterHealthTogether

On Wednesday, April 2nd, Fit Houston will celebrate?National Walking Day Houston 2025?with our annual?free?"walk where you are" initiative! ?? Lace Up! ?? Register a Team! ?? Take a group selfie and tag us! #WALK30 reminds us to walk thirty minutes each day for our health! See you out there on the trails! Visit us at fihouston.org for more details and the registration link! #NationalWalkingDayHouston #WALK30 #greenways #walk

???Book your calendars this Friday, March 7th 10am-11pm CT. Texas Epidemic Public Health Institute (TEPHI) is hosting a special virtual live forum in light of the latest measles outbreak.

Spotted ?? The Health Equity Collective’s Community Voice Workgroup doing what they do every month…engaging community members and leaders to listen, understand, plan, and strategize to help remove barriers and improve health in Greater Houston. Join our Mighty Network (link in comments) to learn more and get involved! #drivingbetterhealthtogether

Calling all HEC members and partner organizations to support our friends in Kashmere Gardens with this tree planting initiative at Hutcheson Park on March 1. Volunteers can register using the link in Keith Downey’s post ??

A huge thanks to Dalberg for leading today's networking session on Climate for Health! Today and January's networking session are a 2-part series on human-centered design and climate health. Kudos to the Houston Endowment, a nonpartisan, private foundation serving Houstonians, for presenting along Dalberg in January! ?? To view the session, please click here. https://lnkd.in/gbUG3rqW ? If you haven't already, be sure to subscribe to the Center for Health Equity's YouTube channel. https://lnkd.in/ggDQYt9r Robert Fabricant, Erin Barringer, Julia Rorer, Laura McEown Tanvi Dhond, W. KaNeesha Allen #healthequity #ClimatexHealth #Drivingbetterhealthtogether

?? Co-lead of the Health Equity Collective and Center for Health Equity Director, Shreela Sharma, PhD, RDN, LD, along with Food Security Workgroup Leaders, Maria De La Cruz, MPA, Director of Care Integration at Harris Health System and Melanie McGuire, Senior Director of Programs at the Houston Food Bank, highlighted the critical work going on addressing health equity through food is medicine initiatives. Former Food Security Workgroup lead and Vice President of Population Health at Harris Health System, Esperanza "Hope" Galvan, PhD, MS, CVRN-BC,CDE hosted the panel. https://lnkd.in/gmQP-SBB

Many states are now looking at the impact of food additives and dyes on overall health. Check out the #txrpc resource on food additives and dyes! ?? : https://lnkd.in/ghcUTa26