Julian Drix

Julian is a Project Director with Human Impact Partners' Bridging Partnerships and Strategies Program, where he leads Power-Building Partnerships for Health. Julian draws on his direct experience navigating Inside-Outside strategies for health equity. He has worked as both a grassroots climate and environmental justice organizer and in governmental public health around asthma, air quality, and housing. He served in leadership roles in Rhode Island’s COVID-19 response and is dedicated to building community power to change the political determinants of health.

Human Impact Partners transforms the field of public health to center equity and builds collective power with social justice movements. As a public health organization, Human Impact Partners is motivated by this key question: How can we address the underlying reasons that we keep reproducing inequitable conditions and outcomes across all systems? For them, the answer lies in confronting the unequal distribution of power and dismantling the systems of advantage and oppression that uphold these unjust imbalances. They work to achieve sustainable, long-term change through social movements and engage public health deeply in this work. Building collective power requires transforming government, and transforming society requires transforming ourselves.