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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.

For states to move toward antiracist, equitable, and inclusive policies that build an economic recovery that extends to all people, three principles should guide state policymakers in these equity efforts.

At the root of structural issues is powerlessness. This primer examines how health equity can be achieved through a community power-building approach to structural change.

The Racial Equity and Policy (REAP) framework provides a conceptually sound, empirically grounded basis for systematically assessing racial equity in health policy

The chief research officer of the Seattle Indian Health Board is creating programs and databases that are not based on Western concepts to better serve indigenous communities.

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.

To unlock the full potential of data, researchers and analysts must consider and apply equity at every step of the research process. Ensuring responsible data collection, representing the communities surveyed accurately, and incorporating community input whenever possible will lead to more equitable data analyses and visualizations. Although there is no one-size-fits-all approach to working with data, for researchers to truly do no harm, they must build their work on a foundation of empathy. This article details three ways you can make your data analysis and communication more equitable and inclusive.

A recent literature review revealed most studies of social need interventions were poorly designed, inadequately documented, and inconsistently presented. In this post, Robert Dubois of the National Pharmaceutical Council, an AcademyHealth Organizational Member, outlines the state of the research and provides recommendations to improve study design quality.

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.

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To challenge our personal & professional ableist biases & practices, we must reframe how we think about disability in higher education, & work not just for access but for equity & inclusion for disabled students.

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.

In this guide and its associated toolkits, we focus on how data practitioners can approach their work through a lens of diversity, equity, and inclusion to encourage thoughtfulness in how analysts work with and present their data.

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.

This article examines the health disparities experienced by transgender people with disabilities. It analyzes the prevalence and types of disabilities among transgender people, examines the health outcomes and social determinants of health among this intersectional population, and makes recommendations for areas of future research.

This resource is intended to provide state policymakers with a suite of state approaches to address health disparities ? from targeted to cross-agency comprehensive strategies. Each section below comprises best practices and state
examples from a geographically diverse set of states to guide state policymakers to the opportunity that best suits their states? needs and capacity. Also included is a lexicon, recognizing the importance of common definitions in this domain, along with links to key tools and resources.

In this issue we have some articles that instead attempt to tackle some of the fundamental philosophical challenges of data science

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.

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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.

Examines the measurement of sex, gender identity, & sexual orientation to produce recommendations for specific measures that can be used in surveys & research, administrative, clinical, & other health settings.

The goal of this commentary is to inspire the use of up-to-date and theoretically driven approaches to increase discourse among public health researchers on capturing racism as well as to improve evidence of its role as the fundamental cause of racial health inequities.

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.

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.

This brief introduces the Belmont Report?s principles and provides selected principle-aligned practices and resources to help data experts at all levels integrate the principles into their work and move toward more equitable data practice.

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.

Minority and women researchers have more novel ideas, but they are less likely to be adopted by the scientific mainstream.

Our aim is to lay the groundwork for an ethically responsible development of AI in the domains of health research, clinical practice and public health.

How can health services research better ensure that high-value health care is consistently and affordably provided to different people, communities, and populations? That?s a fundamental question that this sector must answer if it?s to remain viable.

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Dan Gorenstein, host and executive producer of the national health policy podcast Tradeoffs, highlights ways health policy researchers and academics can share their work with reporters.

The report highlights major lessons from the Building Healthy Communities initiative that contribute knowledge to philanthropy and to the on-going racial justice and health equity movement in California and the nation

As 14 Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation places approach the fourth year of implementation, these briefs offer a glimpse into the opportunities, nuances & complexities of implementing a community-based collaboration.

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What we?re realizing as a community, is that we?re leaving an enormous amount of value on the table, and that if we can do a better job of capturing, preserving, and making available more of the research workflow, we?ll drive better transparency and reliability of the research conclusions, and improve efficiency and the return on the investment we make in research funding.

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