Description
Communities that experience the greatest burdens of climate and environmental hazards in their neighborhoods could greatly benefit from local public health experts who support their work and amplify their efforts. Relationships between community members and public health professionals can help ensure community needs are addressed in decisionmaking and technical information is shared with those who can use it to build power and achieve health equity.
APHA’s Center for Climate, Health and Equity and the Science and Community Action Network invite you to participate in this virtual workshop to discuss how public health professionals can build equitable, trust-based partnerships with communities. Through these partnerships, you as public health professionals have a tremendous opportunity to support marginalized communities, incorporate their lived experiences and expertise into your work and achieve more equitable health outcomes.
This workshop includes a panel discussion with health professional and environmental justice voices from different backgrounds who will share stories of partnerships gone well (and some not so well) and offer best practices and advice for building and maintaining relationships based on trust.
Following the panel, we will invite attendees to participate in breakout groups to build and practice the skills they’ve learned.
Registration
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Speakers:
- Katherine Catalano, deputy director, Center for Climate, Health and Equity, APHA
- Sydney Ormerod, director of prevention, Women’s Resource Center
- Atenas Mena, environmental health director, CleanAirNow
- Omega R. Wilson, co-founder, West End Revitalization Association
- Joe Bowman, emergency preparedness and environmental health consultant, Office of the Chief Public Health Nurse, Division of Public Health, North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services
- Beto Martinez, executive director, CleanAirNow and co-founder, Science and Community Action Network