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Recently, a colleague asked me “Who is your public health hero?” In the context of my new role, the image which appeared in my mind –a woman, standing proudly, a broad smile and hands on her hips in a single-breasted suit—was an unwitting hero, but for me, an image-maker of public health practice. Henrietta Lacks, and the cells, dubbed HeLa taken from her cancerous tumor in 1951, without knowledge or consent, is a complex story. Intersecting identities—an African American mother, wife, a poor tobacco farmer with a seventh grade education living in the Jim Crow South—worked together to form a matrix of domination. At 31, her death and the family left behind, tells a generational story of lived realities in the face of historical and contemporary injustices, amidst a biomedical and healthcare industry that has made billions of dollars and saved millions of people. The complex juxtaposition of triumph and tragedy of this story compels me to do the work of health equity. June 2016 marks the 10 anniversary of the Center for Health Equity (CHE) in the Louisville Department of Public Health and Wellness. Louisville is an iconic story of public health promotion, as the first municipal government to open a center created to work toward the elimination of health disparities by supporting projects, policies and research working to change the correlation between health, longevity, and socioeconomic status. For the past ten years, CHE has spoken to the need for justice in every facet of the human experience and has done the hard work of illuminating marginalized voices facing avoidable inequalities. Since it’s opening, CHE has worked toward the empowerment of neighborhood residents by hosting Health Equity Dialogues, shifted the paradigm in how we think about and approach health through conversations on racial equity, and detailed what health outcomes look like across the city through the Health Equity Report. Now, we must build on that foundation. As we enter a new decade and a new season at CHE, our focus is the same, but our approach has to morph with the changing landscape of problems in equity work. My vision for the CHE is to create a Louisville where every person, is valued equally. Regardless of race, gender, creed, class, sexual orientation, or any other identity, we must do the complex work of creating a social environment where everyone has the opportunity to attain their full health potential. Over the next year, we will advance this vision through three major initiatives: Youth Engagement, Community Capacity Building, and Environmental Justice. Whether creating original programming like the Health Policy Summit to take place this fall, or collaborating with partners around the city, CHE will be innovative and responsive to the changing environment of health. For 10 years, we have done the work Henrietta Lacks’ story calls us to do. Unfortunately, that work is not done, but we will continue to be visible and vigilant in the fight for equity. We will not be afraid to look back so that we can move ahead and invite all of you to do this work with us. Celebrating Diversity February 2016
