About This Exhibition
Health Is a Human Right: Achieving Health Equity
Online Exhibition Curator and Developer
Heather E. Rodriguez, CDC Museum
Physical Exhibition
Louise E. Shaw, Curator, David J. Sencer CDC Museum
Leandris Liburd, Acting Chief Health Equity Officer
Judy M. Gantt, Director, David J. Sencer CDC Museum
Heather E. Rodriguez, David J. Sencer CDC Museum
Exhibition Steering Committee
Julio Dicent-Taillepierre, CDC Office of Health Equity
Shaunda Scruggs, CDC Office of Health Equity
Exhibition Designer
Brett Deschene, 360 Creative Solutions Group
Media Designer
Alex D. Rogers, CDC Museum
CDC Museum Staff
Emma Domby, Visitor’s Experience Manager
Trudi Ellerman, Director of Education
Mary Hilpertshauser, Collections Manager
Cate Johnston, Archivist
Courtney Lonsway, Archivist
Contributors and Lenders
Ad Council
Administration for Native Americans, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Alaska Native Health Consortium
Alaska Native Tribal Epidemiology Center
American Immigration Council
Asian Health Services, Oakland, CA
Asian Pacific American Network of Oregon (APANO)
Asian Pacific Islander American Health Forum
Atlanta Doula Collective
Batesville School District, AR
Birmingham AIDS Outreach, AL
Black Mamas Matter Alliance, Inc, Atlanta, GA
Blackfeet Nation, Montana
Bloomberg News
Bureau of Indian Affairs, U.S. Department of Interior
CCR Architecture & Interiors, Birmingham, AL
California Healthy Nail Salon Collaborative
The California Partnership for the Future of Learning
The Center for Black Health & Equity, Durham, NC
Center for Indigenous Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
ChangeLab Solutions
Cherokee Nation Public Health
Comisión de Salud Fronteriza México-Estados Unidos
Dr. Tongtan Chantarat, University of Minnesota
Cherokee Nation Public Health, OK
Chicago Department of Public Health
Department of Water and Sewer, City of Newark, NJ
Digital Scholarship Lab, University of Richmond
Elections System & Software
First Nations Development Institute, CO
Focused Community Strategies, Atlanta
Forward Arkansas
Hawai'i State Department of Education
Healthy Corner Store program, City of San Antonio
Healthy Neighborhoods, City of San Antonio, Metropolitan Health District
Human Impact Partners
Knik Tribe, Alaska
Lark & Sparrow Nail Salon, Atlanta
Latino Commission on AIDS
LISC Rhode Island
Little Rock School District, AK
Live Tobacco Free-Austin, Austin Public Health, TX
Magic City Acceptance Academy, Homewood, AL
Massachusetts Department of Public Health
Mel & Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, University of Arizona
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine
National Defense Resource Council
National Education Association Foundation
National Institute of Justice, U.S. Department of Justice
National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center
New York City Health Department
New York University Center for the Study of Asian American Health
Newport Health Equity Zone, RI
Newark Water Coalition
City of Newark, NJ, Department of Water and Sewer
Northwest Arkansas Continuum of Care
Northwest Portland Indian Health Board, OR
Oregon Metro
Pawtucket Central Falls Health Equity Zone
Purpose Built Communities, Atlanta
Rebalanced-Life Wellness Association (RLWA) Men’s Health & Education Center, Madison, WI
Restoring Our Own Through Transformation (ROOTT), Columbus, OH
Rhode Island Department of Health
ROSE Community Development Corporation
Rush Center for Health and Social Care Integration, Chicago
Sault St. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians, Michigan
Save the Children
Dr. Karen A. Scott, MD, MPH, FACOG, Birthing Cultural Rigor, LLC
Sinai Urban Health Institute, Chicago
Sovereign Bodies Institute
Tlingit & Haida Central Council, Alaska
TriMet, Portland, OR
United Tribes Technical College, Bismarck, OK
University of Illinois at Chicago, School of Public Health
Urban Growers Collective
Urban Indian Health Institute (UIHI)
Waterbox.org
Wisconsin African American Tobacco Project
Zuni Youth Enrichment Project
Additional Acknowledgements
Kareen Adeem, City of Newark
Angela D. Aina, Black Mamas Matter
Amplifier.org
Christopher Asura, RI Department of Public Health
Jeannette Avila, Sinai Urban Health Institute, Chicago
Rashidat Balogun, Illinois Public Health Institute
Sekesa Berry, Atlanta Doula Collective
Gregory Bolden, The Center for Black Health Equity
Steven Boudreau, RI Department of Health
Dolores M. Castañeda, University of Illinois at Chicago, School of Public Health
Guillermo Chacon, Latino AIDS Commission
Comisión de Salud Fronteriza México-Estados Unidos
Julissa Coplin, City of Newark
Isabel Cox, LISC Rhode Island
Robin Dewey, University of California at Berkeley
Anthony Diaz, Newark Water Coalition
Janet A. Dickerson, Black Mamas Matter
Mark Di Ionno, City of Newark
Abigail Echo-Hawk, UIHC
Sammi Fischer, Ad Council
Lisa Fu, California Healthy Nail Salon Collective
Chong-Min Fu-Sosnaud, City of San Antonio
Deb Golding, RI Department of Health
Sylvia Gonzalez, University of Illinois at Chicago, School of Public Health
Jeni Hebert-Beirne, University of Illinois at Chicago, School of Public Health
Duncan Hwang, APANO
Daniel Jimenez, City of San Antonio
Rukiya Curvey Johnson, Rush Education and Career Hub, Chicago
Paula Julian, National Indian Women’s Resource Center
Margie Kelly, National Resource Defense Council
Pawnee S. Kingfisher, Cherokee Nation Public Health
Elizabeth Klinkenberg, LISC Rhode Island
Lorraine Lathan, Jump at the Sun LLC, WI
Jessica Lynch, Illinois Public Health Institute
Anna Macnak, City of San Antonio
Susan Manning, Massachusetts Department of Public Health
Debbie Martin, NW Arkansas Continuum of Care
Shimarah Mehrotra, Austin Public Health
Ana Meza, ROSE CDC, Portland
Nubia Martinez, Oregon Metro
Lee Mockensturm, U.S. Department of Justice
Elizabeth Mros-Ohara, Oregon Metro
Barbara Murphy, National Academy of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine
Karen Musgrove, Birmingham AIDS Outreach, AL
Talia Natachu, Zuni Youth Empowerment Program, NM
Rob Nelson, University of Richmond
Marvin Nesbitt, Focused Community Strategies, Atlanta
Dr. Monte Norwood, Bible Way Ministries, Atlanta
Vu Nguyen, California Healthy Nail Salon Collective
Anna Novais, RI Department of Health
Mia Patriarca, RI Department of Health
Nik Prachand, Chicago Department of Public Health
Mac O’Connor, ES&S
Eric Olsen, National Resource Defense Council
Laena Orkin-Prol, New York City Health Department
Mary Otwell, Little Rock School District
Shoshannah Page, City of Newark
Aaron Perry, RWLA
Daniel Ravelo, Latino AIDS Commission
Andrew Regner, Knik Tribe, Alaska
Jessica Roach, ROOTT
Cecilia Rosales, University of Arizona School of Public Health
Jaron Rothkop, Waterbox.org
Gloria Seals, Sinai Urban Health Institute, Chicago
Jesse Stemmler, TriMet, Portland, OR
Era Steinfeld, Austin Public Health
Achala Talati, New York City Health Department
Michelle Traver, Trimet, Portland, OR
Jessica Walsh, Women’s Resource Center, Newport, RI
Artists, Designers, Photographers, and Videographers
Alex Albadree
Bryan Anselm
Fata Baako
Henry Baker & Raymond Schillinger
Ira L. Black
Connie Black Bear-Brushbreaker
Ajamou Butler
Riley Champine
Alex Chiu
Jason Chung
Liesa Cole
Ed Cunicelli
Ariana Drehsler
Miguel Flores and Michelle Kahn-John
Nick Alan Foote and Kelsey Mata Foote
Patrick Frilet
Brandon Hadnot-Walker
Sabina Haque
Noelle Rosario Haro-Gomez
Stefan Jeremiah
Jazzmen Lee-Johnson
Raymond McCrea Jones
Sulema Mendoza
Sue Ogrocki
Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya
Andrey Popov
Alex D. Rogers
Luissana Santibañez
Allison Shelley
Kevin Smith
Holly Spence
Cheyenne Varner
Ted S. Warren
Seth Wenig
Rupert Whiteley
Sara Yukimoto-Saltman
Joyce Xi
Kiliii Yũyan
CDC Contributors
Office of Health Equity
Center for State, Tribal, Local, and Territorial Support
Geospatial Research, Analysis and Services Program (GRASP)
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health
National Center for Environmental Health
National Center for Health Statistics
National Center for Injury Prevention
National Institute of Occupation Safety and Health
CDC Individuals
Allison Arwady, National Center for Injury Prevention
Brittany Behm, Division of Reproductive Health
Christie Caldwell
Andy Dent, GRASP
Mike Flynn
Mary Hall, Healthy Tribes Program
Donna L. Hoyert, National Center for Health Statistics
Christine Jones
Charlotte Kent, MMWR
Phyllis King
Laura Kollar, Division of Violence Prevention
Christiana Lancaster
Tanya Telfair LeBlanc
Amy St. Pierre
Julianna Reece
Delight Satter
CDC/ATSDR Environmental Justice Index team
Mary Beth Byram
Jennifer Krasney
Benjamin McKenzie
Adonica Scott
Uma Shanmugam