With over 150 people trained so far, we’re humbled and excited by the response to the Blended Value for Health Equity Course! Curious what the course covers? Watch the video below to learn more about this course. Learn more and enroll here: academy.healthbegins.org/courses/blen...

Proud to have supported Health Net in their campaign to learn about closing care gaps in well-child visits—particularly among Black infants in LA. #communityhealth How Health Net’s Quality Improvement Campaign is Addressing Care Gaps in Well-Child Visits buff.ly/3vSmhZB

💡Establishing a Partnership to Improve Patient Care and Outcomes This webinar provides health center staff with a foundational understanding of the MLP approach, its components, and implementation planning. 🔗https://gwu-edu.zoom.us/webinar/register/3117665008671/WN_oYp_SGaHRUGuaL40qERFxw

ICYMI: We've partnered with @chcfnews.bsky.social for a new toolkit that integrates #racialequity in #healthQI efforts for primary care. We believe this will be a valuable resource for all. CC: @healthforcecenter.bsky.social Read: buff.ly/3JXVo7o

How two small healthcare organizations improved their #race, #ethnicity, and primary language (REaL) #datacollection with the help of HealthBegins' Accelerator program. 4 Lessons for Collecting Race, Ethnicity, and Primary Language Data buff.ly/47SzNsZ

Without these subsidies, many families and communities will forego health coverage. The consequences will be deadly for so many. How the end of extra Affordable Care Act subsidies could affect you wapo.st/4oXfeo5 by @paigecunningham.bsky.social via @washingtonpost.com CC: @khemp.bsky.social

Funding #healthequity efforts is becoming more challenging than ever, but we must use all the resources to continue the fight. A Move to Fund the Fight for Health Equity in the Trump Era - nonprofitquarterly.org/a-move-to-fu... by @isaiahthompson.bsky.social via @npquarterly.bsky.social @rwjf.org

We created a tool to help healthcare organizations develop a more cohesive approach to their #healthequity investments—spanning levels of prevention and intervention. From A Patchwork To A Portfolio Of Health Equity Investments: The Upstream Strategy Map buff.ly/3Tb87LF

"No one should be criminalized for being pregnant, however that pregnancy ends." #reproductiverights Keeping the Police Out of Pregnancy Care www.thenation.com/article/soci... by @reprorightsdoc.bsky.social from @prh.org and Lourdes A. Rivera from @pregnancyjust.bsky.social via @thenation.com

As is our annual tradition, HealthBegins would like to share with you our staff picks of books that provided us joy, inspiration, and hope this year. Great Books to Gift Upstreamists: HealthBegins Staff Picks for 2025 healthbegins.org/great-books-...

In our #newsletter we discuss the importance of community in these challenging times and how they help us feel rooted, bring us joy, and to withstand and recover from adversity. December 2025: Finding Resilience in the Quiet Infrastructure of Community healthbegins.org/december-202...

Censoring terms will not change the need for #healthequity or how racism impacts health, it will just make outcomes worse. NIH Pauses New Funding for Grants That Include ‘Health Equity,’ ‘Structural Racism,’ Pending Review www.notus.org/health-scien... by @margaretmanto.bsky.social via @notus.com

Read about how advocates, policymakers, and health plans can support CHW/P/Rs in California. #communityhealth #CHW New Data: Leveraging the Power of California’s Community Health Workers, Promotoras, and Community Health Representatives buff.ly/3Q3gQhJ

"Ensuring equal access to the ballot requires dismantling the systems that permit others to decide whose voice counts." @caseydoherty.bsky.social via @americanprogress.bsky.social Democracy Denied for Disabled Americans: Guardianship and the Right To Vote

ICYMI we had our #webinar: "Rest, Resistance, and Hope: Reflections on 2025" As this has been a challenging year for #healthequity advocates, we came together in this event to decompress, honor resistance, and rekindle hope in our community. Watch: youtu.be/VrHcBTUsJDs

With over 150 people trained so far, we’re humbled and excited by the response to the Blended Value for Health Equity Course! Curious what the course covers? Watch the video below to learn more about this course. Learn more and enroll here: academy.healthbegins.org/courses/blen...

Black communities bear the brunt of climate change, so it's only right that they have a voice in the solutions to fix the issue. Big Green Has Always Been White. Now the Erasure Is Intentional wordinblack.com/2025/12/whit... by @mustafasantiagoali.bsky.social via @wordinblacknews.bsky.social

Accountability blog Part 3: If we want healthcare institutions to be accountable for progress on #healthequity, then Transparency and Answerability must be part of the process. Letting In Light and Heat: Opening Up Health Equity Work to Public Scrutiny buff.ly/40whKXh

"As today’s vote confirms, the Republicans appear no closer to coalescing around a real plan that would lower health care costs for the American people." Blame Republicans for our health insurance mess www.vox.com/health/47196... by @dylanlscott.bsky.social via @vox.com

Not just important to screen for #SDOH but how we do it to ensure we don't retraumatize patients. Trauma-Informed Screening for Structural Drivers of Health journalofethics.ama-assn.org/article/trau... by @ethicselizabeth.bsky.social @jimduffee.bsky.social via @amajournalofethics.bsky.social

"Civic engagement doesn't just offer hope; it restores agency and meaning to our work." @ammahstarr.bsky.social Doctors' civic engagement will help fix our broken health systems www.timesunion.com/opinion/arti... via @timesunion.com CC: @civichealthall.bsky.social

As is often the case, vulnerable communities will suffer the worst impacts of not addressing preventable diseases. Why America is losing the fight against preventable disease missouriindependent.com/2025/12/05/w... by @darcy-id-doc.bsky.social @priyapal.bsky.social via @missouriindependent.com

ICYMI we had our #webinar: "Rest, Resistance, and Hope: Reflections on 2025" As this has been a challenging year for #healthequity advocates, we came together in this event to decompress, honor resistance, and rekindle hope in our community. Watch: youtu.be/VrHcBTUsJDs

Driving patients to #medicaldebt only puts them through further harm. These Health Centers Are Supposed to Make Care Affordable. One Has Sued Patients for as Little as $59 in Unpaid Bills. www.propublica.org/article/fede... by @aliyyaswaby.bsky.social @mrsimon22.bsky.social via @propublica.org

ONE HOUR! Join us as we look back on a pivotal year for health equity and collective action. We'll bring together luminaries in the fields of #healthequity, democracy, policy transformation, and organizing. Rest, Resistance, and Hope: Reflections on 2025 us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Good commentary by @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social and @jimalwine.bsky.social : "The destruction of the world’s leading #publichealth organization endangers us all." RFK Jr.’s Deepening Threat to Public Health progressive.org/latest/rfk-j... via @theprogressivemag.bsky.social

TOMORROW! Join us as we look back on a pivotal year for health equity and collective action. We'll bring together luminaries in the fields of #healthequity, democracy, policy transformation, and organizing. Rest, Resistance, and Hope: Reflections on 2025 us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

As is our annual tradition, HealthBegins would like to share with you our staff picks of books that provided us joy, inspiration, and hope this year. Great Books to Gift Upstreamists: HealthBegins Staff Picks for 2025 healthbegins.org/great-books-...

"Access to opportunity in the US is tied to race and ethnicity, income, and family background, and it is not a level playing field." @gregggonsalves.bsky.social Public Health Needs a New Motto: No Apologies, No Surrender www.thenation.com/article/soci... via @thenation.com

HealthBegins supported health centers across the country to find new ways to make #maternalhealth more equitable and effective—and the outcome was nothing short of inspiring. Building Community to Improve Maternal Health: Lessons from Group Prenatal Care healthbegins.org/building-com...

"Maternal and infant health disparities reflect broader underlying social and economic inequities that are rooted in racism and discrimination." Racial Disparities in Maternal and Infant Health: Current Status and Key Issues www.kff.org/racial-equit... CC: @sartiga.bsky.social @kff.org

How Will Making English the Official Language of the U.S. Affect Patients with Limited English Proficiency? www.commonwealthfund.org/blog/2025/ho... by @gretchensjacobson.bsky.social @faithleonard.bsky.social @acinthedc.bsky.social via @commonwealthfund.org

There are steps we can take to improve access to lifesaving drugs for patients, including the ones listed in this Health Affairs post. #pharmacoequity Essential Drugs Must Be Affordable And Accessible www.healthaffairs.org/content/fore... by @jbudhu.bsky.social @eddiecliff.bsky.social

Join us for a #webinar as we look back on a pivotal year for health equity and collective action. We'll bring together luminaries in the fields of #healthequity, democracy, policy transformation, and organizing. Rest, Resistance, and Hope: Reflections on 2025 us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

“It’s a full-on attack not only on Black political power but also on democracy.” @francoisehamlin.bsky.social Supreme Court Case Threatens Mail-in Ballots for Black Voters capitalbnews.org/black-voting... by @brandontensley.bsky.social via @capitalb.bsky.social

As the issues in healthcare continue to mount, more and more people will become impacted and suffer the long term consequences. U.S. health care is broken. Here are 3 ways it's getting worse www.npr.org/2025/12/04/n... by @mariaaspan.bsky.social via @npr.org CC: @khemp.bsky.social

If we want to build sustainable partnerships that effectively address health-related social needs, we need to examine and challenge our underlying perceptions of value. #VOI #HRSN To Build Effective Social-Care Investments, Change the Narrative About Them buff.ly/3YFAjbq

These policies will bring untold harm to immigrant communities for generations. Potential “Chilling Effects” of Public Charge and Other Immigration Policies on Medicaid and CHIP Enrollment www.kff.org/medicaid/pot... by @sartiga.bsky.social @drishp.bsky.social @mattrae.bsky.social via @kff.org

The healthcare setting should always be a safe space. These policies just harm communities unnecessarily. #immigration Immigration policies are creating impossible choices for NICU families www.cleveland.com/opinion/2025... by @neodrswenson.bsky.social @emilymillermd.bsky.social via @cleveland.com

NEW #webinar: Join us as we look back on a pivotal year for health equity and collective action. We'll bring together luminaries in the fields of #healthequity, democracy, policy transformation, and organizing. Rest, Resistance, and Hope: Reflections on 2025 us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

We say that #publichealth moves at the speed of trust, and that trust is being broken by our government. It’s not just vaccines. How RFK Jr. is reshaping public health messaging www.usatoday.com/story/life/h... by @dariustahir.bsky.social via @usatoday.com CC: @mckenziewilson.bsky.social

We compiled resources for stakeholders who are passionate about advancing the #CommunityHealthWorker, #Promotora, and Community Health Representative (CHW/P/R) workforce and want to learn more about CHW/P/R workforce sustainability. Read more: buff.ly/4861EaM

Our #publichealth system is going backwards. The U.S. wants healthier children. So why is it scaling back its nutrition programs? 19thnews.org/2025/11/make... by @chabeli.bsky.social via @19thnews.org CC: @shannonwhaley.bsky.social @marionnestle.bsky.social @drjessicaknurick.bsky.social

Taking away the opportunity for disabled people to get a fair education is heartless and will only further marginalize them. Weakening the IDEA Threatens Millions of Disabled Americans Like Me www.the74million.org/article/weak... @seemiaroll.bsky.social via @the74.bsky.social

With the current anti-immigration policies it's more important than ever for the healthcare community to promote #healthequity for immigrants. Read these tips for allies to use during this crisis. Providing Health Equity for Immigrants in a Time of Crisis healthbegins.org/providing-he...

We are excited to announce that in collaboration with Elevance Health, three new evidence assessments have been added to the Social Needs Investment Lab Evidence Assessment Library. To learn more, please visit: www.socialneedsinvestmentlab.com

We created a helpful reference guide for policy pathways on using #Medicaid to address health-related social needs as part of a strategy to advance #healthequity. Medicaid Flexibilities to Address Health-Related Social Needs: A Stakeholders Guide buff.ly/47gqLqG

How two small healthcare organizations improved their #race, #ethnicity, and primary language (REaL) #datacollection with the help of HealthBegins' Accelerator program. 4 Lessons for Collecting Race, Ethnicity, and Primary Language Data buff.ly/47SzNsZ

NEW #webinar: Join us as we look back on a pivotal year for health equity and collective action. We'll bring together luminaries in the fields of #healthequity, democracy, policy transformation, and organizing. Rest, Resistance, and Hope: Reflections on 2025 us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

#CBOs asked for a simple tool to help make financial sense of partnerships to address social needs We've created that tool. Working with @commonwealthfund.org & The SCAN Foundation we’re proud to unveil the #ROI Calculator for #healthcare & #community partnerships: buff.ly/49SYdVD