Health fairness starts with community voice
The People’s Health Project helps communities listen to lived experience, document what they are facing, and turn local priorities into public action
“For years our community knew something wasn’t right, but it felt like no one was listening. The People’s Health Project helped make our voices impossible to ignore.”
PHP turns community experience into documented public evidence and organized advocacy.
listen. share. act
We begin by listening to what communities are experiencing now - in their neighborhoods, schools, clinics, workplaces, and public spaces - through community dialogue, storytelling, interviews, surveys, and other forms of community-engaged research.
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LISTEN
We turn what we learn into a public Community Health Impact Report that combines community perspectives, public health evidence, and policy analysis to explain the issue, why it matters, and what needs to change. Selected reports may be featured in the Community Health Review, a publication highlighting community-led health advocacy and research.
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share
We use the Community Health Impact Report as the foundation for an advocacy campaign that mobilizes support, engages decision-makers, and advances community-driven solutions. Campaign teams then document their work, outcomes, and lessons learned in a Community Health Campaign Report, with selected reports featured in the Community Health Review.
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act
A community identifies a health fairness issue. PHP helps document it. Then we work together to build pressure for change.
From lived experience to public action
Community raises issue & Applies to PHP Training program
leadership team completes training, earns certificate, & publishes Community Health impact report
Campaign launched with national visibility and support
