Health Disparities
SOPHE’s commitment to eliminating health disparities and achieving health equity is demonstrated in its history, mission, resolutions, and track record of highly-regarded programs and products impacting the national, state and community levels. SOPHE has a rich, lengthy partnership with governmental and non-governmental organizations to advocate for health equity and to advance the application of evidence-based practices to improve community health, particularly with the REACH and Healthy Communities programs as well as SOPHE’s new Health Equity Project cooperative agreement.
Linking to SOPHE Health Disparities Programs and Resources:
SOPHE Health Disparities Community of Practice – A SOPHE Members Only feature that includes blogs and other interaction discussion to advance the science and practice of health equity
May 2010 – HPP Supplement – Youth Health Disparities (May 2010)
SOPHE 2010 Comments on the Office of Minority Health Plan of Action
REACH Fact Sheet – 2010 Request to the Appropriations Committees of the House and Senate
2007 – Collaboration with REACH to sponsor a Partnership to Achieve Health Equity 2 ½ day meeting
July/August 2006 – Peer-reviewed publications Health Promotion Practice (HPP) and Health Education & Behavior (HEB) released complementary special issues on Research Agenda
July 2006 – REACH funded programs special HPP supplemental issue published
Congressional briefing with some 200 legislative staff
August 2005 – Transdisciplinary Research Agenda in Health Education to Eliminate Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities Summit
Teaching resource developed for undergraduate and graduate programs
Mini- grants to 4 SOPHE chapters sponsoring community dialogue about Research Agenda (over 400 participants)
Collaboration with National REACH Coalition
Collaboration with National Health Equity Coalition