In Solidarity: Connecting Power, Place and Health

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It's a wrap: Achievements of the past and a path forward Nov 19, 2025

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In its final episode, In Solidarity updates the field on CHR&R’s status. We look at achievements past and a path forward for the model of health and CHR&R’s data and strategies.

Countering centuries of oppression with resistance and reclamation Nov 19, 2025

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Where we live is connected to how long and how well we live. Land Back, a social movement, advocates for the reclamation of the land to Indigenous Peoples.

Introducing a new model of health Mar 05, 2025

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County Health Rankings & Roadmaps is debuting a new model of health this year. The model looks at how power, laws and even society’s written and unwritten rules shape health in communities across the country.

Returning to our public health roots Oct 22, 2024

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How does public health return to its roots of organizing to improve health? In this episode, we will share recent organizing success stories with specific examples and strategies that work on the ground.

Embracing the political: Organizing for change Oct 22, 2024

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How do we transition from organizing for change to enacting policy change? In this episode we’ll explore the power of labor unions to protect workers’ rights, health and wealth.

Tenants' rights: A matter of health Oct 22, 2024

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This episode explores how organizing around housing issues advances public health priorities. We delve into tenants’ rights groups: how and why they started; how they have protected tenants from abuse; how they’ve improved living conditions; and how they’ve encouraged people to become more politically engaged. 

Reviving public health’s roots in organizing Oct 16, 2024

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The first episode of In Solidarity's four-part series, Organizing for Health, covers how the field of public health is rooted in organizing and how practitioners can re-engage and reconnect to their powerful, political origins. Physician, epidemiologist and host of the America Dissected podcast, Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, joins the conversation to discuss public health's history with organizing and the ways we can use organizing to improve health.

Introducing: Organizing for health Oct 10, 2024

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In Solidarity is back for a new series exploring the power of organizing to improve our health. We’re diving into public health’s history of organizing around just causes and the ways it can return to its powerful, political roots. All episodes available October 16, 2024.

When young people engage with democracy Jan 31, 2024

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In the series’ final episode, Host Ericka Burroughs-Girardi talks with a young changemaker who offers insights on motivating other young people to get involved. Winston-Salem State University in North Carolina freshman Olivia Cody shares her experience encouraging fellow students to vote, volunteer and make a difference in their communities. She also discusses the obstacles they face.   

Embracing power and education for civic health Jan 31, 2024

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In this second episode of our three-part series, we’re tackling civic education and young people’s involvement in civic life: where we’re at as a country, what we can do to improve it and how it’s linked to our overall health. Host Beth Silver interviews prolific author Eric Liu, a self-described civic evangelist and CEO of Citizen University, an organization that promotes “powerful citizenship and civic education.” Silver and Liu discuss power, obligation and responsibility in a democracy.  

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