Examples
1)    New positions, offices, or hiring for work dedicated to health equity	“We are opening an office of health equity and racial justice. We’re actually hiring for the director of that office. The intent is to take the work of looking at health equity and really look at how we are addressed it from a public health standpoint and integrating it into the work that we are doing and more broadly throughout the community.” - Public health official #2 __________________________________________________________________________ “We hired the Health in All Policies manager who works for the health department but is deployed to our non-health sector partners. She works with transportation, land development, and other non-health partners and she is influencing/working with them. Now, health comes to their mind very early on and ways to mitigate the impact of their plans with her input. It’s been a welcome change and beautiful collaboration on so many fronts.” - Public health official #3 _________________________________________________________________________ “I also know that our board of county supervisors (the equivalent of a city council) has said they would be initiating a health equity and diversity workgroup that will be open to many community partners and residents. [The goal of this] is to examine the [leadership] structure of the county and work to address it – hopefully, that will divert funding to some of those efforts [as well].” - Public health official #4
2)    Health equity training and internal examination of workplace inclusivity	“Also, recently, there have been inter-departmental teams that have been going through GARE (Government Alliance on Race and Equity) training. [Our city] has committed those resources to hire personnel and do additional training to better understand the racial equity implications of racism in general. I think we are moving in those right directions but I think there is more to be manifested.” - Public health official #1
3)  Continuing to leverage and empower the community	“Something that we have been doing for a while but have really stepped up is ensuring that we are present where our community members are present. Going to other organizations meetings and making sure we have a seat at the table to provide critical health information so it is not just a small proportion of our community that has access to government officials.” - Public health official #1
4)    Using lessons from COVID-19 as a catalyst for action	“… we have also launched a COVID health equity initiative... After a few weeks of collecting data, it was pretty clear that there were racial differences in terms of the numbers of people who were infected and death rates. We felt that it was important to get at it on the fly and start dealing with that issue – we couldn’t wait …” - Public health official #2 _________________________________________________________________________ “…I think with COVID and the racial injustice demonstrations that are ongoing, it has allowed us to be more direct in our communications to the general public about what we are doing to address racism. In that way, I think things have changed more recently in terms of our language." - Public health official #1