Reimagining Equity Series
REIMAGINING EQUITY
A four-part virtual training reflection and practice series designed to shift health equity narratives and expand community-driven decision-making—moving from population health to health justice, and beyond “engagement” toward accountability, shared governance, and community wealth.
- Nationwide (Virtual)
- learning series
- may-july 2024
Project Overview
Reimagining Equity launched as a four-part reflection and practice space to challenge dominant health-system narratives that limit community governance and ownership—and to open up real opportunities for community-driven decision-making within health equity initiatives. The launch session (“From Population Health to Health Justice”) featured reflections from Shift network leaders including Camryn Smith (Communities in Partnership), Erika Seth Davies (Rhia Ventures), Robert Torres (Beth Israel Lahey Health), Eugene Cooke (Grow Where You Are Farm), Melissa Bosworth (Vertical Strategies), and Caitlin Dunklee (Clean Slate Initiative).
Shift Health Approach
Shift designed the series as more than a webinar: participants learn from community and institutional leaders, then do active reflection, real-time practice, and peer community-building—walking away with tools and facilitation prompts they can apply inside institutions and in partnership with communities.
- Practice beyond lectures to invite practitioner-oriented learning
- Tools from Shift’s Practice Toolkit to operationalize power-sharing.
- Peer discussion with like-minded institutional leaders.
- Community-led perspectives that pressure-test “status quo” health equity approaches.
Reimagining Equity Videos
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featured launch-panelists
Results & Impact
Across the series, participants worked through a set of deliberate narrative and operational shifts: moving from “population health” framing toward health justice; replacing surface-level community engagement with accountability; redesigning grantmaking and investment practices toward shared governance; and reorienting institutional definitions of success away from institutional return and toward community wealth. Each workshop was structured to help leaders apply these shifts immediately—using guided prompts, peer discussion, and practical tools they could bring back into partnership design, decision-making structures, and funding strategy. Participants now implement community advisory boards, test participatory resourcing, and further engage with Shift around healthcare accountability.