The Future of Public Health: Explore PHI's 2021 Annual Report
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PHI is dedicated to promoting health & equity for people throughout California, across the nation and around the world.
2021 was a year like no other. From COVID-19, to a heightened visibility of racial injustices, to climate change’s undeniable, escalating impacts around the world, this last year was a clarion call to action. Under unprecedented demands, public health is faltering: with a workforce that is exhausted, attacked and dwindling; and an infrastructure that is out of date, underfunded and disconnected. Now more than ever, we need bold, strategic investment in public health, racial justice and health equity—for our health, our communities, and our planet.
In PHI's newly-released annual report, we’re sharing our lessons learned from the year, when COVID amplified the underlying root causes of dis-ease.?
Together, we reached more than 40 million people with lifesaving resources. We connected with them in the languages they know; they heard from people they already trust; together, we built important bridges with new partners.
You’ll find more than just our 2021 impacts and learnings from COVID. It’s a synthesis of?all?the lessons PHI has learned over the last 58 years.
It’s a roadmap for what comes next: The future of public health.
How do you turn a moment into a movement? Every day this week, we'll be sharing the topline lessons learned from our 2021 annual report—and the path forward to doing things differently: better, faster, more effectively, more equitably, and for more people.
Lesson #1: Trust Communities.
Community-based organizations (CBOs) are more than partners in public health—they are the leaders and trusted messengers who know best what resources their neighborhoods need and how to best reach those who are most systematically excluded. During the pandemic and beyond, we help shift resources, power and decision-making to support CBOs in their essential work. See impact examples below, and explore the report to learn more →
Fast, Flexible Funding to Communities as Experts
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The California Together Toward Health model was one of the first of its kind in the country—using fast, flexible funding and community messengers to activate more than 500 community-based organizations reaching 24 million so-called ‘hard to reach’ Californians with vaccines and COVID prevention information. Communities RISE brings the same model to scale, connecting with over 2400+ organizations across the U.S. Together, they reached 100 million Black, Indigenous, Latinx, Asian-Pacific Islander, immigrant and migrant, low-income, older adult, and LGBTQ+ people in 200 counties and 26 states.
Farmworkers Critical to Addressing Impacts of Heat, Wildfire Smoke
Farmworkers are 20 times more likely to die from heat stress than the U.S. civilian workforce overall. As climate change exacerbates heat and wildfire smoke, resilience efforts in farmworker communities will be crucial. To help increase awareness of these issues and push for action, farmworker leaders from PHI’s Achieving Resilient Communities farmworker advisory committee participated in a digital storytelling workshop to develop short videos, in Mixteco and Spanish, that share their personal lived experiences with heat and wildfire smoke.
Women-Led Sexual & Reproductive Health Solutions
PHI’s CAMI Health captured first-hand stories from young women in South Africa, Zimbabwe and Uganda about their sexual and reproductive health experiences, providing glimpses into the diversity of their needs and insights into solutions to improve their lives. Their StoryMap serves as an advocacy tool to foster the adoption of woman-initiated multipurpose prevention technologies—which can prevent STI’s, pregnancy and HIV—a potential game-changer in addressing these issues.
Girl Leaders Changing Global Policy
PHI’s Rise Up has provided seed funding and mentorship to local leaders, who successfully advocated for new and improved laws and policies, impacting 9 million people around the globe in 2021. Rise Up leader, Hameda Deedat, knows the urgency of addressing gender-based violence and harassment in the workplace—she experienced it herself in South Africa. After participating in Rise Up’s Leadership and Advocacy training, Hameda took action. Working with labor unions and the National Gender Coordinating Committee, she developed and successfully advocated for a comprehensive workplace policy that protects more than 1.2 million workers in South Africa from workplace gender-based violence and harassment.
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I love this. Listening is such an important skill. Also, thank you to the individual who is wearing a mask.
See the full report here: https://www.phi.org/about/2021-annual-report/