Movement Praxis

50 top legal experts assess and recommend policy solutions to safeguard health, civil, and human rights.

With a civil rights of health approach, we can work to cure the virus of racism which has rendered us collectively sicker and poorer. We can govern vital social goods for public benefit rather than private gain. And we can build a just infrastructure of provision by recognizing and confronting racism through anti-racist policy.

The civil rights of health framework suggests two broad priorities during today's time of crisis: pursuing anti-racist policy as a public good and equitably enforcing law and policy.

Civil rights law & public health practice can strengthen each other's weaknesses and, with social movements, give us a new approach to challenging structural inequality

50 top legal experts find U.S. policy response to COVID-19 dangerously lacking, and recommend steps to safeguard health, civil and human rights

it’s time to treat the social determinants of health and anti-discrimination law and policy as health interventions that can both flatten the curve for everyone and close the unjust gap between the privileged and the subordinated.

COVID-19 has underscored our housing system’s alarming vulnerability, and shows us that we are only as healthy as the least sheltered, least cared-for among us. We have an opportunity to respond to the urgency of today in a way that transforms the future.

Lessons from grassroots activists about Puerto Rico's deep-rooted challenges as well as promising solutions & visions for a more just future

Over-policed, under-resourced environments make students feel less safe & supported. What's needed is caring relationships & trust.

The public health crisis of family separations at our border was caused by government policy, and therefore, policy can help fix it

Exploring "sin" taxes and tax credits to create health equity and a pipeline of financing for population health

An overview of 10 common and cutting-edge strategies for communities to reduce consumption of sugary drinks for health & equity

Learn about 6 federal policies that fall short of their promise to support the health and well-being of working families

This resource identifies key features of state laws and regulations regarding recommendations or requirements for hospitals related to any of the 10 steps to successful breastfeeding

Even laws that seem everyday or harmless can have harmful effects on our health and community

Education guide for SDUSD P.E. teachers on what barriers may exist for Muslim youth in physical activity and how to help ensure Muslim youth have an environment where they can thrive and live a healthy lifestyle

Local alcohol taxes present an important opportunity to improve local health equity and prosperity

This report identifies three key policy strategies (farmers’ markets, community agriculture, and healthy government procurement policies) that jurisdictions can deploy to improve the environment in which people purchase food

This resource explains how governments can use healthy food service guidelines and provides useful information on how to include them in contracts

our home – the place where we spend the most time – can either promote health or make health problems worse

Banks can gamble if they want, but they shouldn't be able to do so with depositors’ money, and not with taxpayer money

Dodd-Frank isn’t perfect but if fully implemented as Congress intended, the law accomplishes important market safety checks and consumer protections

A shocking 22 percent of Californians are living in poverty. And this burden falls on different families in different places very unevenly.

Thanks to a decades-old law called the “Maximum Family Grant,” California’s CalWORKs program punished babies for being born poor and, by extension, punished their entire family. CalWORKs is California’s welfare-to-work program.