Championing Health Equity: Experiences from State COVID-19 Health Equity Task Forces: Lessons from Wisconsin

This article describes how Wisconsin is implementing a Just Recovery Framework. It is a task force focused on recommendations for a fair and just recovery from the pandemic and embedding racial and rural equity in future emergency preparedness infrastructure. The task force reviewed existing literature and research and developed a strategic plan, including evidence-based policy and practice interventions to support just recovery after COVID-19. This plan offers practical guidance for local and state officials to address the pandemic and existing inequities exacerbated by the pandemic along the lines of racial equity, rural equity and worker health.

Resource Details

• Topics of Practice: Policy Change/ Development
• Outcomes of Interest: Advancing Racial Equity|Improve Organizational Infrastructure
• Level of Evidence: Novel
• Tools or Materials Included in Resource: No
• Social Determinants of Health: Economic Stability|Healthcare Access and Quality|Social and Community Context
• Outside of US: No