Academic Incentives

This post is the final entry in our series about the use of race and ethnicity in population health research. Our previous posts have detailed information around defining, measuring, coding, and analyzing data on race and ethnicity.

This paper outlines new academic incentives at the system-, institution-, and person-level that, if implemented, could make proving societal impact an integral part of the research process.

This article highlights synergies between antiracist principles and community-based participatory research (CBPR), examines the potential for CBPR to promote antiracist research and praxis, illustrates structural barriers to antiracist CBPR praxis, and offers examples of CBPR actions taken to disrupt structural racism. It also provides recommendations for the next generation of antiracist CBPR.

The Commission’s report and recommendations make it clear that in our current system, data on health inequities are divorced from the history and community conditions that shape poor health outcomes.

This guide was developed in response to librarians fielding multiple requests from UMN researchers looking to incorporate anti-racism into their research practices. This guide shares racist research systems and practices, followed by resources for mitigating those problematic systems and practices, but we wholeheartedly acknowledge that this guide is not a “solution” to the issues of racism embedded in research.

The peer-review system is widely accepted and understood by the majority of researchers and trusted by policy makers. However, peer review has also been accompanied by criticism since it became the method of choice to assess the quality of science. Is it really an appropriate system for selecting the best people and the best ideas?

This publication presents the final recommendations of an external advisory group AcademyHealth convened to help shape a sustainable, action-oriented strategy to address diversity, equity, & inclusion in the field

For this follow-up volume, Do No Harm Guide: Additional Perspectives on Data Equity, we handed the pen to data experts and practitioners whose voices have been traditionally underrepresented.

The philanthropic & nonprofit fields, organizations & individuals have shown an increasing focus on equity. This booklet shares five scenarios around equity in which we?ve had to clarify our role & form an appropriate response.

Collaborative research networks are increasingly used as an effective mechanism for accelerating knowledge transfer into policy and practice. This paper explored the characteristics and collaborative learning approaches of nine health research networks.

This paper explores the rise & consequences of ?health equity tourism?, a phenomenon where previously unengaged investigators pivot into health equity research without developing the necessary scientific expertise for high-quality work.

Self-governance of science was supposed to mean freedom of inquiry, but it also ended up serving the business model of scientific publishers while undermining the goals of science policy.

Public research funding agencies and research organisations are increasingly accountable for the wider impacts of the research they support. While research impact assessment (RIA) frameworks and tools exist, little is known and shared of how these organisations implement RIA activities in practice.

Lotteries, self-review, open peer review, innovation prizes, and other approaches have emerged as potential research funding process alternatives, but each of these options comes with its own advantages and disadvantages.

This Horizon Scan provides an overview of existing DEI programs and practices to ultimately stimulate conversations and action that can advance DEI within health services and policy research.

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Despite racism?s alarming impact on health and the wealth of scholarship that outlines its ill effects, preeminent scholars and the journals that publish them routinely fail to interrogate racism as a critical driver of racial health inequities.

We present the steps taken with a forward-looking perspective on the challenges laying ahead, in particular the necessary change of the rewards and incentives system for researchers (for which various actors are co-responsible and which goes beyond the mandate of the European Commission). Finally, we discuss the role of artificial intelligence (AI) within an open science perspective.

A guide to support funders seeking to develop and implement a preprint policy. The toolkit includes benefits of preprints for funders, guidlines on how to incorporate and review the use of preprints into current policies, and a preprint policy text document

Until recently, there were no preprint servers for medical and health sciences. In this post, Harlan Krumholz and Joseph Ross, co-founders of medRxiv, describe the benefits of preprints and highlight features of their preprint server for health sciences launched in June 2019.

Taking the model from the American Alliance of Museums? guides for transgender inclusion, these toolkits provide a common framework for analysis, a shared vocabulary, and best practices to address racial disparities specific to the scholarly publishing community.

Use the Data Equity Framework to break up your data work into manageable parts and go through an intentional, equity-oriented process to make the key decisions along the way.

The current evaluation paradigm must shift and mindsets and practices evolve. The Equitable Evaluation Initiative’s Equitable Evaluation Framework provides principles and orthodoxies to guide organizations.

In this episode, Dr. Brownsyne Tucker Edmonds and Dr. Sylk Sotto talk with Dr. Aaron Carroll about the importance of diversity and equity in research, higher education, and medicine.

Using a blend of personal narrative and insights from a 23-year career as a Black critical health equity researcher, I share 10 critical lessons for Black and other health equity researchers of color.

Margo Edmunds and Abdul Shaikh lead attendees through an exercise on priority-setting for methods and data followed by a discussion of the results of the exercise.

Abdul Shaikh facilitates a discussion on emerging methods to advance health equity. Lisa Goldman Rosas presents on community-based participatory research, and Suzanne Tamang discusses how using big data can improve outcomes.

A virtual coffee chat between two noted changemakers about how to better align health services research to the priorities of policymakers and health system leaders.

This guidebook proposes an equity-based approach as a way to restore communities as the true authors and owners of research, and to shift the way researchers and funders work with community-based organizations to uncover knowledge together.