LET’S TALK: REDISTRIBUTING POWER TO ADVANCE HEALTH EQUITY INTRODUCTION

LET’S TALK: REDISTRIBUTING POWER TO ADVANCE HEALTH EQUITY SUPPLEMENT 2 – PUBLIC HEALTH ROLES IN ADDRESSING POWER IMBALANCES IN THE CANADIAN CONTEXT: SUMMARY OF INTERVIEWS AND CONSIDERATIONS TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 1 PUBLIC HEALTH ROLES AND ACTIONS TO ADDRESS POWER CONCEPTIONS AND SOURCES OF POWER 2 IMBALANCES 5 CURRENT POWER HOLDERS 3 CONCLUSION 7 POLICIES AND PRACTICES THAT MAINTAIN POWER. [...] 3 LET’S TALK: REDISTRIBUTING POWER TO ADVANCE HEALTH EQUITY Supplement 2 – Public health roles in addressing power imbalances in the Canadian context: Summary of interviews and considerations POLICIES AND PRACTICES THAT MAINTAIN POWER IMBALANCES Interviewees named a wide range of policies and practices that maintain power imbalances and inequities in Canada. [...] 4 LET’S TALK: REDISTRIBUTING POWER TO ADVANCE HEALTH EQUITY Supplement 2 – Public health roles in addressing power imbalances in the Canadian context: Summary of interviews and considerations CURRENT EFFORTS IN CANADIAN PUBLIC HEALTH THAT CONTRIBUTE TO BUILDING POWER Through the discussions, participants identified many examples of what public health in Canada is already doing to build power to ad. [...] • Do more advocacy in support of community-led campaigns on determinants of health and build the infrastructure within public health to do advocacy on determinants of health in allyship with organizing groups, networks of organizing groups and social movements. [...] • Partner and work with community- and worker-organizing groups where both the public health agency and the community-organizing group are robust and ready, centring joint work on the priorities of the members of the organizing group.