Community Organizing

As public health problems such as HIV/AIDS, substance abuse, violence, and environmental toxins become an ever greater part of our national landscape, grassroots public health work has become all the more important. This updated and revised edition of a highly praised volume provides meaningful insights into the systems of inequality in the United States—such as race, class, and gender—that impact health. Updated versions of a number of the original chapters, as well as new chapters and appendixes, address areas such as using community organizing to impact on policy; using the arts in community building and organizing; online activism; and the role of cultural humility and systems change in building effective partnerships between local health departments and community residents.

Meredith Minkler is a professor of health and social behavior at the School of Public Health, University of California at Berkeley. She has over twenty-five years of experience in community building and organizing with diverse populations and is coauthor or editor of six books, including Community-based Participatory Research for Health.