Cooperative Extension’s National Framework for Health Equity and Well-Being has been published as a flipping book by the Extension Foundation. First published in July 2021, the report was produced by the Extension Committee on Organization and Policy (ECOP), Health Innovation Task Force. The Health Innovation Task Force was established in March 2020 by ECOP to "investigate, explore, and provide recommendations in support of extension innovating for system-level change” particularly as it relates to advancing the health of the nation. Members included Extension administrators as well as representatives of USDA-NIFA and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The Task Force completed its work in March 2022.
The publication opens with a video introduction by Director Roger Rennekamp, Ph.D., Extension’s Health Director, who provides an overview of the framework. The publication includes information about America’s changing health landscape, the evolution of Cooperative Extension’s work in health, health equity, and the social determinants of health. An explanation of the framework is provided, along with specific recommendations for its implementation. Throughout the publication, readers will find links to additional resources that will enable them to dive deeper into the topics discussed in the report.
Additional titles have recently become available in the Extension Foundation library on topics such as a Northeast ecosystems services assessment, creating mass media campaigns, game-based education, wellness in “tough times,” innovating curriculum, prescribed fire, emergency preparation and response, understanding food labels, and building farm and farm family resilience. You can find the entire library of publications here.
A note about our Publications:
After listening to the feedback of our Cooperative Extension partners, the new Publication bookshelf serves as a replacement for our old eFieldbook library. We greatly value and appreciate the feedback we received, including eliminating a LinkedIn login to access titles on the bookshelf. All titles are publicly available on our Connect Extension platform. Titles that were on our former eFieldbook bookshelf are in the process of being migrated.
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