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The following documents offer a starting point for understanding and practicing cross-sector alignment.
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Mapping Aligning Processes and Outcomes: Equity, Racial Equity, and Racial Health Equity as Aligning Outcomes
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Mapping Aligning Processes and Outcomes: Equity, Racial Equity, and Racial Health Equity as Aligning Outcomes

Aligning Systems for Health, Georgia Health Policy
08.02.2021
This brief poses questions for researchers and practitioners to consider when developing a strategy for measuring health equity, racial equity, and racial health equity as outcomes of an aligning endeavor.
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Alignment 101
Health Care
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Social Needs
Equity, Health Equity, and Racial Equity in the Framework for Aligning Sectors
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Equity, Health Equity, and Racial Equity in the Framework for Aligning Sectors

Aligning Systems for Health
02.22.2021
This brief identifies leading definitions of equity, health equity, and racial equity, and explores their interrelationships.
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Alignment 101
Moving from Talk to Action: Advancing Equity with Results Based Accountability
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Moving from Talk to Action: Advancing Equity with Results Based Accountability

Georgia Health Policy Center, Aligning Systems for Health
02.25.2021
This webinar on February 25 explores strategies to advance health equity with results based accountability.
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Alignment 101
Moving to Center: BUILD's Journey to Advance Health Equity
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Moving to Center: BUILD’s Journey to Advance Health Equity

09.2021
This publication examines how the BUILD Health Challenge has pursued the bold goal of improving health for all through cross-sector, upstream, and community-driven approaches.
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Health Care
Social Needs
Conducting Equity Assessments
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Conducting Equity Assessments

Public Health National Center for Innovations, Center for Sharing Public Health Services
04.01.2021
This brief examines four Cross-Sector Innovation Initiative grantees that conducted equity assessments and/or used tools to assess how their collaborative is functioning.
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Alignment 101
Health Care
Public Health
Social Needs
Aligning Across Sectors: Key Considerations for Measuring Equity
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Aligning Across Sectors: Key Considerations for Measuring Equity

Aligning Systems for Health, Georgia Health Policy Center
09.08.2021
This brief provides guidance on what indicators may be helpful for measuring equity in individual collaboratives or across aligning contexts.
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Alignment 101
Health Care
Public Health
Social Needs
Advancing Equity in the Nation’s COVID-19 Public Health Response and Recovery Efforts: Options for a New Administration
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Advancing Equity in the Nation’s COVID-19 Public Health Response and Recovery Efforts: Options for a New Administration

George Washington University
01.2021
This paper summarizes policy and programmatic initiatives that a new administration could incorporate into its COVID-19 response and recovery efforts that will ensure a more equitable — and more effective — approach.
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Alignment 101
Health Care
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Social Needs
Ensuring That Money Intended for Health Equity is Well Spent
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Ensuring That Money Intended for Health Equity is Well Spent

Aligning in Crisis, Georgia Washington University, Georgia Health Policy Center
12.08.2021
publication highlights how a national framework to measure equity can help state and local jurisdictions employ American Rescue Plan Act funds as intended — and hold city, county and state leaders accountable for focusing on equity in their decision-making and programmatic choices.
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COVID-19
Health Care
Public Health
Social Needs
A Framework for Assessing the Racial Equity Impact of the American Rescue Plan Act
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A Framework for Assessing the Racial Equity Impact of the American Rescue Plan Act

Aligning in Crisis, Georgia Washington University, Georgia Health Policy Center
10.2021
This brief summarizes a convening of stakeholders, policy officials, experts, and thought leaders who discussed how government recipients of American Rescue Plan Act funding can be held accountable for focusing on equity in their decision making and programmatic choices.
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COVID-19
Health Care
Public Health
Social Needs
Using Data Strategies to Advance Health and Racial Equity
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Using Data Strategies to Advance Health and Racial Equity

National Academy for State Health Policy
06.25.2021
This set of resources from the National Academy for State Health Policy illustrates how convergent analysis — which helps to depict the extent that different health conditions coexist at their worst level — can be applied to publicly available data sets to advance health and racial equity.
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