Building community power for health equity: A curated list

Power imbalance is a root cause of health inequities. To develop interventions that intentionally shift power, public health practitioners need an understanding of power and be able to recognize how power and health equity outcomes are interrelated. Further, public health practitioners can use frameworks for conceptualizing power to analyze power dynamics related to specific issues, and then develop and implement strategies and tactics from that analysis.

Learning from Practice: Building Community Power for Health Equity- Nail Technicians in Greater Toronto

This case-study, cowritten by the NCCDH and Parkdale Queen West Community Health Center (CHC), highlights how the CHC invested resources and effort to support community engagement, community organizing and coalition building in the nail technician community of the Greater Toronto Area in order to improve and enhance occupational health and safety in the industry.