Center for Health Equity
Los Angeles County

The Center for Health Equity (CHE) is a division within the Executive Office of the County of Los Angeles Department of Public Health (Public Health).

CHE believes in policies and practices that foster healthy communities for all. Toward that end, CHE seeks to build the collective ability of the Public Health workforce and community to achieve health and racial equity.

Key efforts include:

• Enhance the Public Health Workforce's ability to effectively apply an equity lens in program planning and implementation.

 

• Promote and support efforts to ensure language justice. Language Justice focuses on ensuring all individuals can communicate and get information in the language with which they are most comfortable.

 

• Identify and promote policies and practices, in collaboration with internal and external partners, to ensure fair and just opportunities and resources for all communities.

 

•  Create and support multi-disciplinary teams to develop best practices to achieve health equity.

 

• Initiate and sustain collaborative partnerships with community and other County agencies to advance all of the above.