Explored and strengthened the connections between public health practice and social justice movements through a timeline of resistance.

As part of our work to strengthen a system of prevention for health equity and racial justice, we developed a Timeline of Resistance, an interactive tool and resource that uncovers and amplifies the connections between public health and social justice movements. Following the history of public health’s social justice origins, the virtual timeline then highlights a selection of historical and contemporary social and racial justice movements led by people of color. The current timeline includes efforts to establish the conditions for thriving communities through actions that advance liberation towards anti-racism, as well as economic, labor, and educational justice. By drawing connections between past and present-day movements to dismantle systems of racism and injustice, the Timeline offers valuable lessons to strengthen public health practice in service of equity and racial justice. The Timeline was piloted in 2023 during a training series on Embedding Equity with the Houston Health Department and at the Young Minds Matter conference. It will be publicly released in 2024.

Funder: The W.K. Kellogg Foundation

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