The report explored gaps between public health and CPBOs and identified avenues for collaboration through advocacy and policy efforts. Despite cultural divides, the findings revealed opportunities to work together to achieve racial justice and improve health equity.

• Public health NGOs can identify campaigns they are willing to align with, beginning with building relationships with CPBOs and engaging in advocacy to support those campaigns.
• Public health academics can set up “activist labs” modeled on those already in place and implement advocacy and community power-building into their curricula.
• Funders can support initiatives at the local and national levels, incorporating community power-building strategies into their theories of change and funding streams.
• CPBOs can reach out to public health counterparts and invite them to engage in advocacy opportunities that begin to build trust and relationships.