Resources & Additional Reading

The CHC has a number of online learning modules through the Health Communication Training Series (HCTS) related to health equity. Ask your supervisor how to enroll for free if you'd like to take them.

This is a running list of outside resources and reading related to health equity

General Health Equity Resources

• CDC's Office of Health Equity 

• CDC's Resources & Style Guides for Framing Health Equity & Avoiding Stigmatizing Language

• The University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical School's Office of Health Equity

• Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJ) What is Health Equity? 

• Morehouse School of Medicine Health Equity Tracker

  • This tool is a mapping feature that allows you map different topics across demographics across time

• Communicate Health's A Framework for Equity-Centered Health Communication

• Communicate Health's Beware of Implicit Bias (note: there are 2 separate links as it is a 2-part series)

• Practicing Health Equity podcast

• Collaborative on Media & Messaging for Health and Social Policy's Tips for Communicating About Health Disparities

Programming Resources

• Urban Insititute and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Leveraging Community Expertise to
  Advance Health Equity

• Urban Institute's Tools and Resources for Project Based Community Advisory Boards: Community Voice and Power Sharing Guidebook

Research/Evaluation Resources

• Urban Institute's Do No Harm Project

  • Particularly useful is the Additional Perspectives on Data Equity

• 3 is a pattern's "Dispersion & Disparity" Research Project Results: How masking uncertainty encourages stereotyping when visualizing social outcome disparities. 

Design/Writing Resources

• CHC Style Guide

• National Resource Center for Refugees, Immigrants, and Migrants' Translated Materials by Language

• Communicate Health's Inclusive Language Playbook: Writing for LGBTQ+ Communities

• rootid's inclusive stock photography resource list

• CDC's Clear Communication Index

• Communicate Health's Inclusive Writing Playbook: Writing About Disability

Accessibility

• UT-Austin's Accessibility Resources (both web and document)

• WebAIM's Accessibility Resources 

• Web Accessibility Initiative's WCAG 2.1 at a Glance

  • WCAG more in depth: WCAG 2 Overview

  • Hierarchy of headings in Page Structure

  • While we’re limited to the colors we can use here at the CHC, this is a good way to gauge if colors are compliant: Venngage's Accessible Color Palette Generator

• Public Health Communications Collaborative's The Public Health Communicators Guide to Creating Accessible Social Media