OK! Now that we’ve got the history, let’s look forward to the 2021-2025 SAAPHI Strategic Plan. You can follow along here: saaphi.org/strategic-plan #SAAPHIreimagined

#SAAPHIreimagined Mission Statement: SAAPHI is dedicated to dismantling structural racism and other intersecting systems of oppression to create health equity and improve the well-being of all people across the African Diaspora.

#SAAPHIreimagined Value: Inclusion

#SAAPHIreimagined Value: Authenticity

#SAAPHIreimagined Value: History

#SAAPHIreimagined Value: Critical Thinking

#SAAPHIreimagined Value: Stewardship

2021 - 2025 Organizational Priorities 1⃣ Expansion of membership and partnerships. 2⃣ Diversity Engagement with current members, partners and the general public. 3⃣ Diversity and increase Funding Streams. #SAAPHIreimagined

Apps due 3/16. Calling all doctoral students (in any discipline) interested in applying a #HealthPolicy perspective to their work... #HealthEquity #HealthPolicy

Thanks for tuning in! Join and/or invest in SAAPHI today — we need YOU! SAAPHI.org #SAAPHIreimagined

NEWS: We issued a statement on the public health harms of prison & jail investment to offer solutions & express support for An Act Establishing a Jail & Prison Construction Moratorium (H.1905/S.2030). Read: buff.ly/3nIeczm Thank you: Families for Justice as Healing #NonewWomensPrison

Scholars @BrittneyButler_, Mya Roberson, MSPH, PhD, & Rebekah Israel Cross contributed to a new book "Black Women and Public Health: Strategies to Name, Locate, & Change Systems of Power", which will be publicly available next month SUNY Press.

#HPRSAlum @BrittneyButler_ explores the relationship between racism & pregnancy induced hypertensive disorders in Black women. Her work highlights how structural racism impacts pregnancy outcomes & informs policy solutions. #BlackHistoryMonth healthpolicyresearch-scholars.org/dissertation/

@BrittneyButler_ pls support & retweet my research! “BIPOC public health professionals invited to take 12-15 min survey on race-based stress and burnout experienced during the COVID-19 pandemic for chance to win $100 Amazon gift card!” tinyurl.com/PublicHealthWo…

Our Bell Fellow & FXB Health & Human Rights Research Fellow Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health @drbrittbutler penned this op-ed on negative health impacts of racism (both historical and current) for Black families...

Head over to TikTok and check out my new series “Paper of the day”! So excited to share these topics.

Reframing “environmental harms” to include more than just pollutants & toxins to effectively address reproductive #healthinequities #structuralracism @drbrittbutler tinyurl.com/2e5h6uyp

Tonight at 5:30pm! Join us in person or on Zoom for a fireside chat led by FXB Fellow @drbrittbutler on how carceral states undermine reproductive justice rights for birthing people in the U.S. Co-hosted by Women, Gender & Health Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health: hsph.me/Repro-Carceral