This report, produced in partnership with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, assists those working to improve health, well-being, and equity in rural America. It is directed not only to those working in public health or healthcare, but also to those working in other fields—such as rural development, community development, housing, and education—that powerfully shape health.

This report, produced in partnership with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, should be relevant to those planning, conducting, or funding ethnic/racial data collection, analysis, and/ or reporting, for both federally and privately funded data, in all sectors, not only health.

Addressing systemic racism is crucial for achieving health equity. This report, produced in partnership with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, examines what systemic racism is, the harm it causes and how it does so, and strategies to dismantle it.

This report, produced in partnership with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, aims to assist those working in health care, public health, and other fields that powerfully shape health—such as education, childcare, housing, and community development—to build a world in which everyone has a fair and just opportunity to be as healthy as possible.

Produced in partnership with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, this report examines the links between mass incarceration and health equity. Through pairing data with examples of successful approaches, this report shows how mass incarceration negatively impacts everyone’s health and well-being and also suggests solutions for reducing both incarceration and crime rates and increasing opportunities for all.

Produced in partnership with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, this report examines the links between wealth and health equity, with data from recent studies showing how a country’s overall health is linked not only with its overall level of wealth, but also with how wealth is distributed. The authors describe promising strategies for building wealth among groups of people for whom access to wealth-generating opportunities have been historically limited.

The first few years of life are crucial in establishing a child’s path toward—or away from—health and well-being across the entire lifespan. This report, produced in partnership with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, examines some of the barriers to health equity that begin early in life, and promising strategies for overcoming them.

In a report designed to increase consensus around meaning of health equity, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) provides the following definition: “Health equity means that everyone has a fair and just opportunity to be as healthy as possible. This requires removing obstacles to health such as poverty, discrimination, and their consequences, including powerlessness and lack of access to good jobs with fair pay, quality education and housing, safe environments, and health care.”