*On the premier episode of NCHE Presents: Leaders Pursuing Health Equity in America podcast, host Dr. Gail C. Christopher talks with guest Dr. Kaiwipuni Punihei Lipe. She is an extraordinary leader who discusses the culture of native Hawaiians, the challenges they face and their connectedness with their homeland.
Our nation is experiencing a strong movement for Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation. It’s what we have called TRHT since it was launched by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation back in January 2016.
This movement is advancing in communities, on college campuses and in business sectors. America must acknowledge the truth: racism has existed here for centuries and we can redress it by healing the wounds of the past and charting paths forward that transform our society. Everyone must be treated with dignity and respect.
This is essential for expanding health equity in our communities. Everyone deserves opportunities to attain his or her full health potential. For decades, we have focused on the social determinants of health.
Today, we fully understand that concept, but now it must translate into action.
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National Collaborative for Health Equity (NCHE) is providing this platform for leaders who are taking action, who are working in their communities for truth, racial healing and transformation. They are reflecting on TRHT’s five pillars: narrative change, racial healing & relationship building, separation/segregation, law and the economy.
Our communities are creating new narratives about the present and the past that raise expectations for equity, fairness and justice. This approach is building trust, relationships and healing across the divides, across racial and class lines. And in so doing, we are expanding the circle of engagement. We are building a critical mass and ultimately a majority, and super majority, of people who will unite behind the TRHT movement and transform our country.
In the NCHE podcasts, we will lift up leaders, who are finding innovative ways to generate healing and build the bridge to tomorrow. We will talk to leaders addressing the entrenched legacy of separation and segregation. We will strategize with those tackling the racist policies and legal structures that continue to impede progress. And we will hear from leaders working to create economic opportunities that can stabilize families.
Join our host, NCHE Executive Director Dr. Gail Christopher, on this journey. Tune in to NCHE PRESENTS: Leaders Pursuing Health Equity in America.
About NCHE
Founded in 2014, NCHE established to promote health equity through action, leadership, inclusion, and collaboration.
We work to create environments that foster the best possible health outcomes for all populations, regardless of race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, or nativity.
NCHE also works to improve conditions for health and well-being, including those related to housing, education, income and wealth and the physical and social environment.
Further, it is imperative that we address historic and contemporary structural, institutional, and interpersonal racism, which fuels inequities in our society.
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