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The Government Alliance on Race and Equity is a national network working to achieve racial equity and advance opportunities for all.

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Alameda County, California

Alameda County is in the early stages of developing a comprehensive racial equity initiative. As is the case with many successful efforts across GARE’s network, the county’s efforts started within an agency already prioritizing equity: The Alameda County Public Health Department (ACPHD). As an early step towards normalizing racial equity as a government priority, the ACPHD released the report Life and Death from Unnatural Causes in 2008, which provided a framework for health equity based on the social determinants of health and guided by a focus on policy/practice actions to address health inequities.

That same year, ACPHD also launched Place Matters, a local initiative to raise health and equity considerations in local policy decisions. These actions helped normalize and prioritize racial and health equity as an overarching goal for the county’s public health work.

Given the department’s focus and work on equity, ACPHD was invited to join GARE in 2015 as a sponsor of Alameda County’s overall participation in the network, which the Board of Supervisors approved. As a part of its emerging comprehensive racial equity initiative, ACPHD is currently working with other county agencies to identify ways for all to contribute to the larger equity efforts. The health department will convene a countywide workgroup of different departments to identify and implement countywide pilot projects and develop a countywide racial equity plan with the long-term goal of developing an ordinance to support the racial equity plan and a long-term home for the initiative within Alameda County.

News from Alameda County, California


October 3, 2017

The Intersection of Black Lives Matter and Public Health: Moving from Conversation to Action in Addressing Health Disparities

By: Mehroz Baig Disease doesn’t discriminate. Disease also doesn’t operate in a vacuum. As public health researchers have spent more time looking at how disease affects certain populations, public health professionals have come to realize the critical impact that social determinants play in people’s health: everything from the economy, the environment, access to food, cleanREAD MORE > Read More


May 8, 2017

[Webinar Recap] How Public Health Agencies Can Support Immigrant and Refugee Communities

On Tuesday, April 11th, the Government Alliance on Race and Equity (GARE) hosted a webinar focused on how public health agencies can support local immigrant and refugee populations. The webinar featured an overview of the “Guide for Public Health Actions for Immigrant Rights,” created by Public Health Awakened—a group of public health professionals organizing forREAD MORE > Read More


March 22, 2017

Racial Equity, Youth, Arts and Culture Call for Submissions (Alameda County region)

The Government Alliance on Race and Equity (GARE) will be having our annual membership meeting in Oakland from the evening of May 2nd through late afternoon on May 4th. We will have nearly 100 people from over thirty jurisdictions present, including representatives from cities, counties and regional government entities. We are a peer-to-peer membership networkREAD MORE > Read More


March 22, 2017

[Webinar Recap] Equitable Development as a Tool to Advance Racial Equity

Equitable Development is achieved when: communities of color determine their own futures and shape the futures of their neighborhoods; the benefits and burdens of growth are equitably distributed among people of all races, ethnicities, incomes, and neighborhoods; neighborhoods are multicultural and places where both tenured and new residents can thrive; and all communities have meaningfulREAD MORE > Read More


August 20, 2014

Materials from the Convening on Racial Equity (Twin Cities, MN – August 2014)

Materials from the Convening on Racial Equity in August 2014. Read More


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Participating Jurisdictions: Alameda County, CaliforniaBegan Racial Equity Work: 2006 – 2010 Population: Extra Large (1,000,000+) Region: West Form of Government: County


Demographics

White:649,122
African American: 190,451
Asian: 394,560
Hispanic: 339,889
American Indian & Alaska Native: 9,799
Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander: 12,802
Multi-Racial: 90,997
Total Population: 1,510,271


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