Health Impact Assessment on Duwamish River Superfund cleanup for JHA
JHA is excited to announce that we are collaborating with the University of Washington School of Public Health and the Duwamish River Cleanup Coaliton to conduct a Health Impact Assessment (HIA) on the Lower Duwamish Waterway Superfund Site Cleanup Plan. An HIA is defined as a combination of procedures, methods, and tools that systematically judges the potential and sometimes […]
JHA leaps into 2012
There is a Danish tradition to jump from your couch or chair at the stroke of midnight of the new year. It signifies leaving your worries behind from the previous year and leaping into the new year with all your hopes of exciting and better things to come. JHA leapt into 2012 with excitement. 2011 […]
JHA is off to APHA: Health equity at work
JHA is presenting at the American Public Health Association conference in DC on November 1 at 2:30 pm. We would love to see you there. Health equity at work: Training at Whatcom County Health Department Linn Gould (JHA), Liz Mogford (Western Washington University), and Astrid Newell (Whatcom County Health Department) This session highlights Whatcom County Health Department’s […]
JHA receives a community health impacts subaward
JHA is proud and excited to announce that it is collaborating with the Duwamish River Cleanup Coalition (www.duwamishcleanup.org/) on an innovative community-based project to improve health in the Duwamish Valley (DV), Seattle, Washington. The DV Healthy Communites Project grant was awarded from the Environmental Protection Agency’s Community Action for a Renewed Environment (CARE) Program (www.epa.gov/care/basic.htm). JHA’s Executive Director, […]
Interested in health equity training?
In the past few years, many people (teachers, health department staff, promotora trainers, doctors, etc) have approached JHA and remarked that the health equity concepts that we teach and promote are so new that they could use some training. JHA is exploring the idea of conducting a health equity training workshop in Seattle in August, 2011. The […]
JHA in the news
JHA and its executive director, Linn Gould were mentioned in an article published in the Seattle PI and InvestigateWest by Carol Smith about the health impacts of people who live in Environmental Justice communities located in a highly industrialized part of Seattle that includes the Lower Duwamish Waterway Superfund Site.
An Environmental Justice digital story
Digital storytelling uses digital tools to help “ordinary” people tell a story in a compelling and emotionally engaging form. Here is a six minute Environmental Justice (EJ) digital story about people who catch and consume contaminated seafood from the Lower Duwamish Waterway (LDW). The LDW was designated a Superfund Site in 2001 and is in […]
Seasons Greetings and Thanks to All
Season’s Greetings and thanks from Just Health Action JHA has had an incredible year and we couldn’t have done it without you. Thank you! In 2010, we developed new curriculum, published, presented, revamped our website, and more. Click here to view JHA 2010 in a nutshell. Many volunteers and organizations helped JHA grow this year. […]
Environmental Justice Poster for the Duwamish River Superfund Site
JHA, in collaboration with the Duwamish River Cleanup Coalition and the University of Washington Superfund Research Program, just developed an Environmental Justice poster for the Duwamish River Superfund Site. The poster will be displayed at the public meetings on the Superfund Site cleanup alternatives on December 7th and 9th in Seattle. For more information about […]
JHA’s trip to APHA in Denver
JHA had a great time in Denver at APHA. We think the social justice theme of the conference was a huge success. Also, the social determinants of health and health equity are now common terms and no longer need to be defined and explained to people on the escalators. Our two presentations (How racism affects […]
