Environmental Data for Health Justice

Vision

Facilitating the creation of accessible, equitable, and just data sets, tools, and frameworks to challenge oppressive systems of power.

Purpose

An environmental justice led practice for data gathering and democratic investigation for the Peoples' health.

We define health justice as a requirement that all persons have the same chance to be free from hazards and stressors that jeopardise health, fully participate in society, and access opportunity. 

Despite the work we have all been able to achieve with our current sources of data, there is still a lot of space for improvement on data that is intentionally used for health justice. 

Data intentionally used for health justice considers the human, societal factors when creating ranges and values. 

This is a new home for open access resources from this strand of our work. If you want to partner with us to scale this work then get in touch.

This long form report for the Urban Health Council aims to reframe the culture around data to ensure that we understand its limitations, reframe from supremacy to a tool for justice, and introduce a more accurate lexicon so we can better our collective understanding of data.

This long form report written for the Urban Health Council explores how data does not operate in a vacuum as every part of the process is coloured by top down factors such as culture. Which data is collected, how it is analysed and the insights drawn from data are all decision points practitioners have to make and all practitioners belong to a specific culture which influences them.

The purpose of this Pathway to Community Health Justice is to map a macro trajectory of how the health phenomena communities experience can be accurately and equitably acknowledged in order to provide community health justice on a systemic level.

We have to continually look at the tools, processes, and structures that different players have available to them when we talk about achieving health justice within communities. This report walks through a set of steps to understand how to take a large societal level phenomena and create meaningful environmental data for health justice.

This document will highlight key player archetypes who significantly contribute to the creation and use of macro environmental data for health justice purposes.