A guide to assessing whether research and policy advances health equity
Called to Care: A Racially Just Recovery Demands Paid Family and Medical Leave
ISSUE BRIEF | This updated brief shows how the lack of national paid leave has exacerbated harms to the health and economic lives of people of color, particularly women, before and during the pandemic.
Called to Care: Quotes from Congress
Quotes from Members of Congress
Called to Care: A Summary
The National Partnership recently released a brief, which finds that the lack of national paid leave has exacerbated harms to the health and economic lives of people of color, particularly women, before and during the pandemic.
Improving Our Maternity Care Now: Four Care Models State Policymakers Must Implement for Healthier Moms and Babies
RECOMMENDATIONS | Research shows that specific care models in use today lead to demonstrably higher quality care and improved outcomes. We just have to take action to make them readily and widely available.
Disastrous and Dangerous: Judge Barrett Would Wreak Havoc on the Lives of Women of Color
FACT SHEET | Judge Barrett's elevation to the country’s highest court would be disastrous for all of us in regards to our civil and human rights, but is especially dangerous for women of color who live at the intersection of multiple oppressions.
Past as Present: America’s Sordid History of Medical Reproductive Abuse and Experimentation
FACT SHEET | Recently, accounts of forced hysterectomies at the Irwin County Detention Center in Ocilla, Georgia, have sparked widespread alarm and condemnation.
Improving Our Maternity Care Now
REPORT | Four care models decisionmakers must implement for healthier moms and babies
Clean Water Visual Factsheet
FACT SHEET | Companion piece to the 2020 report, Clean Water and Reproductive Justice: Lack of Access Harms Women of Color
Clean Water and Reproductive Justice: Lack of Access Harms Women of Color
REPORT | Frequently, Black, Latinx, Asian American and Pacific Islander communities, lower-income communities, rural communities, and communities living at the intersections of these identities struggle daily to access safe, affordable water, and their health is...
Clean Water and Reproductive Justice Policy Solutions
RECOMMENDATIONS | Access to clean water is a human right recognized by the United Nations. It is a public health issue that is deeply connected to maternal and reproductive health. It is also a reproductive justice issue in that it shapes people’s ability to choose if...
Lead Poisoning in Flint, Michigan
CASE STUDY | The water poisoning in Flint caused undeniable harm to residents’ reproductive health. Analyzing health records from 2008 to 2015, researchers found that fertility rates in Flint dropped by 12 percent and fetal deaths rose by 58 percent after the water...
Pollution in San Gabriel Valley, California
CASE STUDY | Over half a million Asian American people and 7,000 Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander people live in the San Gabriel Valley. As a result of high pollution, drinking water contamination is common in areas including Alhambra, Arcadia, Monterey Park,...
Nitrate Contamination in San Joaquin Valley, California
CASE STUDY | San Joaquin Valley accounts for over half of California’s agricultural production and, as a result, has the highest rates of drinking water contamination in the state. Residents in Tulare County in particular face reproductive health issues at levels...
Attacks on health care coverage are attacks on reproductive justice for women of color
FACT SHEET | By undermining the ACA, conservative lawmakers are gambling with the health and economic stability of Black, Latina and Asian and Pacific Islander (AAPI) women, families, and communities.
Advancing Health Equity: Addressing the Role of Structural Racism
ISSUE BRIEF | In the United States, health and racism are inextricably linked. Racism and discrimination are deeply ingrained in the social, political, and economic fabric of our society and have a harmful impact on individuals and communities of color.
Black Women Experience Pervasive Disparities in Access to Health Insurance
FACT SHEET | Data released by the U.S. Census Bureau show that, despite significant health insurance gains since the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was implemented, pervasive coverage disparities remain for Black women.
Paid Family and Medical Leave Would Benefit Latino Workers in Virginia
FACT SHEET | Paid family and medical leave would benefit 242,885 Latino workers in Virginia
Paid Family and Medical Leave Would Benefit Latino Workers in Texas
FACT SHEET | Paid family and medical leave would benefit three million Latino workers in Texas
Paid Family and Medical Leave Would Benefit Latino Workers in Nevada
FACT SHEET | Paid family and medical leave would benefit 199,581 Latino workers in Nevada
