This version of the statement was formally adopted by the American Public Health Association (APHA) at their annual conference in Denver, CO on October 26, 2021 with majority support from Governing Council members (86% to 14%).

Although community organizing often is a key component of Community-based Participatory Research and other partnership approaches to neighborhood and policy change, community-driven organizing is less frequently a major focus of discussion and scholarship in CBPR. This session focuses on the importance of such organizing for transformative change on the neighborhood, municipal, state and policy levels. Each presentation will address APHA’s meeting theme of building social connectedness, as well as two or more key areas of concern to the CBPH Caucus. These are: CBPR and place-based community transformation; community-driven work to transform policy, lessons learned from community organizing and CBPR projects, participatory approaches to addressing the Social and Structural Determinants of Health, and organizing and partnership in the time of pandemics. A diverse range of partners share their experiences as organizers and public health partners, and the contributions of their CBPR and other collaborative work to building social connectedness in and beyond their partnerships, while also helping to promote transformative, equity-focused policy change. In addition to a presentation sharing and applying a new conceptual model of community engaged evidence translation to policy making, three case studies are presented.

ICE detentions and deportations--Vulnerabilities of Immigrants and Refugees' negative impact on health and violations of human rights.

Recent abolitionist movements have brought renewed attention to the harms, including health harms, of the carceral state. In the past year, decarceration efforts accelerated to meet the urgent demands of the COVID-19 pandemic and movements to defund police departments and invest in community-based public health solutions have risen to the top of many local policy agendas in the U.S. The goals of this session are to discuss how public health practitioners, researchers, and frameworks can align their work with, and advance, abolitionist efforts. The session will feature a framing introduction to abolitionist public health and to the panelists, followed by three panelists presentations. We will conclude with a moderated discussion with the audience.

The End Police Violence Collective - researchers and organizers both inside and...

Although community organizing often is a key component of Community-based Participatory Research and other partnership approaches to neighborhood and policy change, community-driven organizing is less frequently a major focus of discussion and scholarship in CBPR. This session focuses on the importance of such organizing for transformative change on the neighborhood, municipal, state and policy levels. Each presentation will address APHA’s meeting theme of building social connectedness, as well as two or more key areas of concern to the CBPH Caucus. These are: CBPR and place-based community transformation; community-driven work to transform policy, lessons learned from community organizing and CBPR projects, participatory approaches to addressing the Social and Structural Determinants of Health, and organizing and partnership in the time of pandemics. A diverse range of partners share their experiences as organizers and public health partners, and the contributions of their CBPR and other collaborative work to building social connectedness in and beyond their partnerships, while also helping to promote transformative, equity-focused policy change. In addition to a presentation sharing and applying a new conceptual model of community engaged evidence translation to policy making, three case studies are presented.

ICE detentions and deportations--Vulnerabilities of Immigrants and Refugees' negative impact on health and violations of human rights.

Recent abolitionist movements have brought renewed attention to the harms, including health harms, of the carceral state. In the past year, decarceration efforts accelerated to meet the urgent demands of the COVID-19 pandemic and movements to defund police departments and invest in community-based public health solutions have risen to the top of many local policy agendas in the U.S. The goals of this session are to discuss how public health practitioners, researchers, and frameworks can align their work with, and advance, abolitionist efforts. The session will feature a framing introduction to abolitionist public health and to the panelists, followed by three panelists presentations. We will conclude with a moderated discussion with the audience.