Law and Health Equity

By Angela R. Fertig, Doug Bachtel, Mumbi Okundaye, and Arati Daha

WTVM Channel 9

By John Metcalfe, The Atlantic Cities

By Rembert Browne, Grantland

By Sabrina Tavernise, New York Times

By Lisa George, WABE

By Julie Creswell, The New York Times

By Andrea Elliot, The New York Times

Co-authored by the Movement Advancement Project, the Center for American Progress and the Human Rights Campaign, in partnership with Freedom to Work, the National Center for Transgender Equality, the National Partnership for Women & Families, Out & Equal Workplace Advocates, and SEIU—and features a foreword by Small Business Majority.

By David Edwards, The Raw Story

By Lucas Grindley, HIV Plus Mag

Atlanta Magazine op-ed by Andre Dickens

From Al Jazeera America, Timothy Pratt takes an in-depth look at the rising number of HIV/AIDS cases in Atlanta and the reasons behind the increasing levels.

From the Gwinnett Daily Post

The Center helps to direct the Community Research Partnership Core of the Clinical and Translational Science Collaborative involving Case Western Reserve University, MetroHealth Medical Center, University Hospitals of Cleveland, and the Cleveland Clinic. The aims of this Core are to facilitate community based research among faculty, students, community organizations, and community residents.

Neighborhoods, USA is a national non-profit organization committed to building and strengthening neighborhood organizations. Created in 1975 to share information and experiences toward building stronger communities, NUSA now continues to encourage networking and information sharing to facilitate the development of partnerships between neighborhood organizations, government and the private sector.

By Katie Leslie, Atlanta Journal-Constitution

The mission of the Department of Planning and Community Development is to plan and implement the future by guiding the physical and economic development of the City while enhancing the quality of life for all through a comprehensive range of planning, design review, construction plan approval, code compliance, and housing preservation and assistance services and programs.

Georgia STAND-UP, a Think & Act Tank for Working Communities, is an alliance of leaders representing community, faith, academic, and labor organizations which organizes and educates communities about issues related to economic development.

The primary mission of the Foundation is to foster public policies, human-service reforms, and community supports that more effectively meet the needs of today’s vulnerable children and families.

Center for Quality Growth and Regional Development at the Georgia Institute of Technology

The Georgia Department of Public Health (DPH) is the lead agency in preventing disease, injury and disability; promoting health and well-being; and preparing for and responding to disasters from a health perspective.

Health Access Program (HAP) seeks to ensure and expand access to safe and affordable health care for all Georgians through consumer empowerment, policy development, and advocacy.

The agency was founded as a “grass-roots” response to the devastating and fatal impact HIV/AIDS was having on the Atlanta community.

SPARK is a statewide community based and centered reproductive justice organization based in Atlanta, GA.

The mission of the SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective is to amplify and strengthen the collective voices of Indigenous women and women of color to ensure reproductive justice through securing human rights.

The Health Initiative is dedicated to improving the health and well being of Georgia’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer community through education, support, access to care and advocacy.

AHRC was formally incorporated in 1995 with the goal of educating IDUs and non-users, community leaders, public health, safety, and elected officials, and other organizations about the effectiveness of harm reduction strategies to reduce the transmission of HIV/AIDS.

The Comprehensive Development Plan is a guide to the growth and development of the City of Atlanta. It sets forth the development vision, policies and an implementation plan for the City and its neighborhoods for the next twenty years.

By Charles Montgomery, Slate

To help steer that conversation, Invest Atlanta, the city's economic development arm, has released a long-awaited report outlining the challenges and the potential solutions to ensure that enough affordable and workforce housing remains available throughout the city.

A plan from Invest Atlanta to address Atlanta's growing affordable housing problem.

The Communities Putting Prevention to Work (CPPW) Online Resource Center provides a host of tools to support environmental changes that address obesity and tobacco use. These resources describe why environmental changes are at the heart of making healthy living easier, and how to execute them. Tools include webinars, model policies, tool kits, databases, fact sheets, and other practical materials.

Prevention Institute and Tony Iton, MD, as Director of the Alameda Department of Public Health, prepared this report for the Institute of Medicine's Roundtable on Health Disparities to identify policy solutions at the community, regional and state level to reduce inequities in health and safety. Recommendations are made in four key areas: community, health care, systems, and overarching, and are complemented by successful examples.

Safe Routes to School (SRTS) programs are sustained efforts by parents, schools, community leaders and local, state, and federal governments to improve the health and well-being of children by enabling and encouraging them to walk and bicycle to school.

SRTS programs examine conditions around schools and conduct projects and activities that work to improve safety and accessibility, and reduce traffic and air pollution in the vicinity of schools.

Examples of affordable housing developed by the City of Atlanta.

By Thomas Wheatley, Creative Loafing

Created by the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials.

Health Disparities Report 2008: A County-Level Look at Health Outcomes for Minorities in Georgia