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Where Racial Justice, Public Health and the Economy Intersect
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“A tremendous amount of needless pain and suffering can be eliminated by ensuring that health insurance is universally available.”

– Daniel Akaka
Addressing BIPOC Vaccine Hesitancy

This week's WIN Digest, in conjunction with our Racial Justice Community's latest ssession, is themed around where the economy, public health and racism intersect.

With discussion of vaccine mandates and variant cases, it's more important than ever to acknowledge the reason behind BIPOC vaccine hesitancy. Between the Tuskegee Syphilis Study and the forced sterilization of Puerto Rican women from the 30s to the 70s, America needs to face up to violence it has inflicted upon marginalized groups.

If we want BIPOC communities to embrace the vaccine, we must embrace the reasons for their hesitancy.
News Articles
Family health care coverage at work tops $22,000 a year

A new survey from  the Kaiser Family Foundation has found that health insurance now costs employers and workers on average over $22,000 per worker.
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Stacey Abrams Is Tackling Vaccine Hesitancy

Stacey Abrams became one of the most prolific community organizers of all time during the 2020 election but she isn't stopping there. Read more about how Abrams is taking vaccine hesitancy head on.
Videos
 Community-Led Initiatives for Population Health Improvement

The National Academies PopHealth Roundtable has been generous enough to share a highlight reel from their last workshop based around community-led initiatives for population health improvement.
Podcasts
Show Me the Science: Racism as a Public Health Issue

Black people are more likely more to test positive for COVID-19. But why?

Health inequity and racism have gone hand and hand for decades. It's time to start seeing racism as a public health issue.

Show Me The Science is a podcast out of Office of Medical Public Affairs at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.
Art to Build Equity
Illustration by Natalia Vico
Redlining by Ashley M. Jones

Oh, what? You thought I didn’t belong here?  
You thought your street was me-proof? Thought here 
was a place only lilies could grow? Can you hear 
my skin before you see it? Can you hear  
the rap I'm blasting down your perfect street? Here, 
take it—every beat will fight for me. If you can hear 
it, that means I'm winning, that means you can’t hurt me here. 
Means I'm belonging if it’s the last thing I do. Did you hear 
the one about the black girl who just wanted to mind her 
own business in a country, state, city, suburb where 
their only business is making sure I'm not here?  
Where my face my body my God my hair 
even my right to write this sonnet right here 
is policed, is stared down, is burned fast as ether.
Bright Spots
Illustration by Monica Ahanonu
Seattle Council Members Propose Alternatives to Policing

Seattle Council Members in late October proposed expanding mental health services funding by more than $13 million in an attempt to find alternatives to traditional policing.
Resources and Tools to Build Equity
Creating an Equitable Future
for Health and Well-Being

This report from RippelHealth examines how equity can be achieved through equity through democracy and public health initiatives. Click below to read the full report!
Join the Conversation
Aligning Public Health and Businesses: Effective Partnerships and COVID-19 Messaging Strategies


This free webinar is for public health communicators with timely messaging guidance for the upcoming holiday season and ongoing COVID-19 communications needs.
Fall WIN Week 2021

The WIN Network is very proud to announce our WIN Week: Joy, Hope and Resistance, starting December 8th.

We move into this WIN Week hoping to fill it with as much joyful renewal as possible and we hope your presence will help us fill that space.