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:

• Implement an Equity Learning Initiative to build the capacity of the Public Health Workforce to apply equity principles during program planning and implementation.

 

• Improve and expand Public Health's Language Services infrastructure.

 

• Collaborate with Public Health programs and provide technical assistance to identify and advance equitable policies and practices in areas such as contracting, hiring and retention. data collection and analysis, language access, and accessibility.

 

•  Convene internal Public Health workgroups to identify and develop best practices (i.e. trainings, standards of practice) to address racism, discrimination, gender inclusion and affirmation, and disability accessibility issues.

 

• Establish and maintain partnerships with community stakeholders and other County agencies to promote Anti-Racist/Anti-Discriminatory practices, improve language access, and lift the voices of impacted communities.

 

• Develop toolkits and guidance to support the Public Health workforce and community partners with the application of a health equity lens to their work (topics include language access, data collection, analysis, visualization and storytelling).

 

• Enhance the workforce's ability to apply the equity principles effectively 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.

 

• Partner with programs to identify and promote policies and practices to ensure fair and just opportunities and resources for all communities.

 

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

 

• Collaborate with community stakeholders and other agencies to advance all of the above.