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City health equity office outlines strategic plan, equity-assessment tool and interdepartmental work
Summary
Cleveland’s Division of Health Equity and Social Justice presented a strategic plan, a health and equity impact assessment tool for city departments, and a review of programs including Moms First, HIV/STI, minority health, and addiction recovery; council members pressed for fatherhood inclusion, language access and procurement accountability.
The Cleveland Department of Public Health’s Division of Health Equity and Social Justice (HESJ) presented the administration’s 2024–27 interdepartmental equity strategic plan, explained an adapted Health and Equity Impact Assessment (HEIA) tool for city use and described program work on maternal and infant health, addiction recovery, minority health and HIV/STI services.
Lita Wills, commissioner of Health Equity and Social Justice, told the committee the division uses social determinants of health — education, economic stability, neighborhood and the built environment, health care and social/community context — as organizing pillars. She said the division’s work includes programmatic services housed in Public Health (Moms First, Office of Mental Health and Addiction Recovery, Minority Health and HIV/AIDS services) and cross-city efforts led by an interdepartmental equity team and an Equity Advisory Group.
Wills described a brief, user-friendly…
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