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Mental Health Poll: Assessing the Crisis During COVID-19 and Beyond

Please join us on May 24 as we release findings from a national poll assessing the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the mental health and substance use crisis in America. The findings address the significant barriers that consumers face—and that will persist—in accessing treatment, as well as their experiences using telehealth during the pandemic. […]

Webinar: Community Health Justice for All: Ensuring Equity in Care Delivery

In this webinar, hear from a cross-disciplinary group of leading thinkers about the immediate actions and solutions that community health leaders and stakeholders can implement to help their populations. Discussion will also explore effective policy approaches at the federal and state levels. This webinar is part of the Community Health Leadership Forum, a virtual event series […]

Learning to Live with COVID-19

This 19th webinar of the COVID-19 Conversations series will focus on what life with endemic COVID-19 might look like, including the realities of managing future outbreaks and the ethical and policy challenges that will need to be navigated by leaders.

COVID-19 Vaccines and Women Webinar: Social Media and Vaccine Promotion

Please join us Thursday, May 27th at 1:00 pm (ET) and Friday, May 28th at 10:00 am (ET) for the latest installments of our COVID-19 Vaccines and Women webinar series. The speakers will share important information about using social media strategies to promote the COVID-19 vaccine and how to communicate science to address vaccine hesitancy. […]

COVID-19 Vaccines and Women: Communicating Science to Increase Vaccine Confidence

Please join us Thursday, May 27th at 1:00 pm (ET) and Friday, May 28th at 10:00 am (ET) for the latest installments of our COVID-19 Vaccines and Women webinar series. The speakers will share important information about using social media strategies to promote the COVID-19 vaccine and how to communicate science to address vaccine hesitancy. […]

COVID-19 Health Equity Task Force – Meetings – Office of Minority Health (OMH)

The COVID-19 Health Equity Task Force's next meeting is scheduled for May 28, 2021. The meeting is open to the public and can be viewed live at https://www.hhs.gov/live/live-1/index.html#13191. No registration is needed. Pre-registration is required only for members of the public who wish to provide public comment in the meeting. To register, please send an email […]

Maternal Mental Health: The First ACE

Maternal mental health can be thought of as the "first ACE" which then cascades into physical and mental illness in the child and family for generations, playing a role in the perinatal physical health outcomes of both moms and their babies. Join 2020 Mom and Dr. Jonathan Goldfinger in a discussion that focuses on how […]

Structural Racism & Barriers to Breastfeeding in Chicago’s Southside Webinar

The disparities in breastfeeding support across the United States result from inequitable access to health care, shaped by persisting structural racism. In Chicagoland’s South Side, Black families who choose to breastfeed face struggles finding and receiving services necessary to meet their breastfeeding goals. Join us for a webinar in our series on "Supporting Breastfeeding Intention […]

Advancing Maternal Health Equity and Reducing Maternal Mortality: Workshop

A panel will discuss: what factors affect maternal health outcomes, and access to high-quality maternal health care? What promising approaches are being implemented to improve outcomes and reduce mortality? How might these be scaled up? How can interventions apply a life course approach to improve maternal health outcomes? Focus will be on reproductive and sexual […]

June ADJUST: A Four-Day Virtual Health Equity and Social Justice Workshop

Experienced co-facilitators lead these dialogue-based sessions. The workshop illuminates how racism, classism, and other types of oppression are root causes of health inequity and introduces strategies to address them. This workshop consists of three consecutive half-day sessions, followed by a fourth day two weeks later. Over The Four Days, Participants Will: Build a shared vocabulary […]