History of Health Equity
This trailblazing public health department, founded in 1880, serves the smallest population in the Bay Area with only 124,000 residents.
What is the City of Berkeley?
The first CA Assembly member to introduce Fair Housing Legislation
Who is Berkeley’s William Byron Rumford Senior
BARHII’s mission is to transform this practice for the purpose of eliminating health inequities - using a broad spectrum of approaches that create healthy communities.
What is “public health practice?”
Facing severe displacement pressures, this city in San Mateo County lost 43% of its Black population between 1980 and 2018.
What is East Palo Alto?
This park in San Francisco is Bigger than Central Park
What is Golden Gate Park?
The law journal article “Equality and Health” by Michael Meltsner is commonly accepted as the first published health equity publication and the first article to use the term “health equality.” The article described civil rights litigation over discrimination in health care. The article came out in this decade.
What are the 1960s?
This group hosted a Free Breakfast Program that Led to the U.S Congress authorizing the expansion of the program to all public schools in 1975?
WHO is The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense
Because of the work of many champions for equity, including BARHII, by the summer of 2020, this percentage of the Bay Area’s cities and towns were covered by local eviction moratoria to provide housing stability during the pandemic.
What is 100%?
The amount of the Black HAT Fund.
What is $500 million?
This place holds one of the largest centers that rescue and rehabilitate seals and sea lions found along the coast.
What is Marin County?
After the release of a scathing report on Black and minority health, Congress created the Office of Minority Health (OMH) within The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in this year – marking an important step forward in the construction of health equity institutions. Hint: This is the same year as the disaster at Chernobyl, the Challenger explosion, and Dionne Warwick’s smash hit “That’s What Friends Are For.”
What is 1986?
The San Francisco Shero that Co-founded the Southern Christian (SCLC) Leadership Conference headed by Martin Luther King Junior and was the inspiring force behind the creation of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
Answer: Who is Ella Baker
During a recent BARHII webinar about equity officers in emergency operations, someone sang this song from the musical Hamilton.
What is “The Room Where it Happens?”
The group that created and masterminded the Regional Black Housing Fund
Black Housing Advisory Taskforce
The year the BART train started running
What is 1972?
In 2012, the California Legislature established this office within the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) to align state resources, decisionmaking, and programs to reduce health and mental health disparities and inequities.
What is the Office of Health Equity (OHE)?
The Bay Area Figure who was instrumental in shifting our national fight for justice from equality to equity
Angela Glover Blackwell.
On March 11, 2021, President Biden signed this act, providing $1.9 trillion to address the impact of COVID-19 on the economy, public health, state and local governments, individuals, and businesses. (Hint: BARHII has been deeply engaged in shaping how local governments use these funds to advance health equity.)
What is the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA)?
This man has lead the work of Black HAT from the very beginning.
Who is Darris Young?
This county has the Black Diamond Mines Regional Preserve
Contra Costa County
In the mid-1990s, a small group of public health directors and health officers, began convening for informal conversations to explore how to re-think public health and better address preventable illness and death by examining issues through the lens of social inequities. This group would eventually form BARHII. Those early informal gatherings were sometimes described as this French word.
What is a salon?
This man was both the first African American to be appointed to the Bench in Alameda and the first African American Mayor of Oakland
Who is Lionel Wilson
Last Spring, BARHII released a toolkit on strategies for centering communities impacted by inequities in climate resilience planning and disaster response. The toolkit came out just in time for this season, which was the second most destructive in state history.
What is wildfire season?
The strategies within the Black HAT Fund that will disrupt the displacement of Black people
What is project Development? or What is organization capacity building? or What is community planning?
Most diverse city in California
Vallejo