Commonwealth Fund April 24, 2024
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Public health organizations can rebuild trust and regain influence by partnering with grassroots organizing groups to collaboratively address policy priorities
Public health agencies can support social change organizations by sharing access to data, leveraging relationships across government and accountability structures, and building relationships across the nonprofit and funder ecosystem
Public health in the United States began with social movements coming together to create changes in critical areas like water quality, sanitation, and zoning that drastically improved living conditions and extended life expectancy. A 2021 article describes a shift away from these roots: “Public health began to self-identify as a field of objective, outside observers of society instead of agents of social change . . . . Assuming that its...
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