What is the Center’s Action Plan?

The Center for Health Equity Action Plan directs the Center’s activities over six years. It identifies our vision for the future and our pathway there. The first year includes a start-up period and will be followed by five years of implementation.

In 2018, on behalf of the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health (Public Health), the Center for Health Equity (CHE) worked with community partners and other County agencies to develop an Action Plan to reduce and eliminate health inequities among LA County residents. This plan lasted from 2018 – 2023 during a time that brought forth global upheaval because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Original Action Plan outlined a set of strategies and actions to focus the work and is a public commitment to achieving a set of defined equity goals. These activities were designed to foster health equity and create partnerships that strive to ensure that everyone in our county can reach optimal health and well-being.

 

Check out the Original Action Plan here!

The Original Action Plan framework organizes the Center’s work around four strategic priorities to support our main goal of eliminating gaps in health outcomes by addressing the communities most impacted. These strategic priorities will determine how we will do our work.

 

 

 

 

Over the last year, CHE has worked with Public Health programs to provide an update on that plan and put forth an extension plan that will take the work through December 2024. This latest edition of the Action Plan represents Public Health’s commitment and progress toward achieving equity through a set of key organizational priorities centered on institutional change and eliminating inequities in health outcomes related to Infant and Maternal Mortality, Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs), and Environmental Justice. Additionally, the Action Plan frames Language Justice as a cross-cutting factor and outlines 4 equity priorities that showcase how Public Health is advancing equity: 

 

• Providing access to useful and inclusive health equity data.  
• Supporting policy and systems change for the equitable distribution of opportunities and resources.    
• Building partnerships that truly share power and respect community perspective and autonomy.  
• Strengthening organizational readiness and capacity to adopt a just culture and advance health equity.