The Community Health Planning and Policy Development (CHPPD) section of APHA founded the annual CHPPD Day of Action in 2011. The CHPPD Day of Action aims to partner with local community-based organizations in the host city of each year’s Annual Meeting, understand a pressing local health need, and then mobilize its members and APHA partners to help meet that need during an event planned during the Annual Meeting. CHPPD’s mission is to develop and advocate for health planning, policies and practices to promote health equity, community empowerment and social justice.