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The Sacred Birth Study offers two scenarios of the birthing experience based in empathy and cultural awareness. The second acknowledges that in many instances, the medical providers providing care to Black birthing parents are not Black.

In 2020, Jazzmen Lee-Johnson worked at the Rhode Island Department of Health as the first Rhode Island Arts and Health Artist in Residence. During her residence, she produced this silkscreen that explores the historic links between asthma, structural…

An affluent town with a significant tourism industry, Newport did not address equity as a city-wide priority until HEZ was formed in 2016. For example, prior to the establishment of HEZ, the North End and Broadway communities had less access to parks…

Newport HEZ is a place-based initiative focusing on the North End and Broadway neighborhoods, which are the city’s most racially diverse communities. Its goals are to mitigate current health disparities present in these communities and to empower…

In 2018, the North End community celebrated this green space with a parade and tree-planting ceremony. Studies suggest that appropriately designed and maintained green space has the potential to reduce violent crime and gun violence, while making…

The HEZ Food Justice Work Group, led by partner organization Aquidneck Community Table, has a dual purpose: to increase HEZ residents’ immediate access to healthy affordable food and to address the structural barriers to food access, through…

Newport HEZ is a place-based initiative focusing on the North End and Broadway neighborhoods, which are the city’s most racially diverse communities. Its goals are to mitigate current health disparities present in these communities and to empower…

Infographic created by the Newport Health Equity Zone (HEZ) to report information about the 2019 winter gas outage to residents.

Infographic created by the Newport Health Equity Zone (HEZ) to report information about the 2019 winter gas outage to residents.

In 2023, the Central Falls Pawtucket HEZ organized a participatory budget process to vote on how to spend $385,000 for projects to benefit community health. The process was born in Brazil in 1989 as an anti-poverty measure and method of democratic…