Missed BHPN’s Virtual Summit? Watch the recording and join the conversation on community-driven climate resilience. As Dr. Manuel Pastor, Director of the Equity Research Institute at USC, reminded us in his fireside chat, disasters don’t create inequity — they crystallize it. Extreme heat, flooding, and displacement are reshaping the communities least equipped to absorb the shock, often those long sidelined by disinvestment. Building real resilience means more than emergency response. It takes coordinated investment across community development, health, philanthropy, and government — and, in Pastor’s words, the kind of solidarity that “bridges across differences” with community leaders setting the direction.
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Read MoreBuild Healthy Places Network is excited to announce that we’re celebrating the continuation of our powerful partnership with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation! This renewed support will allow us to expand and deepen our work bringing together community development, public health, and healthcare to create prosperous and healthy neighborhoods across the country.
Read MoreBuild Healthy Places Network (BHPN), a program of the Public Health Institute is thrilled to announce the five awardees of the Community Innovations for Racial Equity (CIRE) initiative, a program aimed at tackling structural racism and health inequities in disinvested communities.
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