Assessing Health Equity: Selecting or Creating an Assessment Instrument
Considerations and linked resources to guide selecting or crafting questions to include in a health equity assessment
Brianna Bragg is a Research Associate at AcademyHealth, where she supports the AHRQ-funded EvidenceNOW: Managing Urinary Incontinence initiative in partnership with RAND as well as an ASPE-funded training series to build evidence and evaluation capacity across federal HHS agencies in partnership with NORC and Urban Institute. In her role with AHRQ, she assists research grantees’ efforts focused on improving nonsurgical treatments for UI among adult women in primary care by supporting the learning community and technical assistance teams. Prior to joining AcademyHealth, Brianna worked as a Development Intern at Change Today, Change Tomorrow, a nonprofit focused on reducing food insecurity and health disparities. She graduated from Bellarmine University in 2022 with a B.A. in Health Services and Communication with a minor in Marketing Communications.
Authored by Brianna Bragg
Resources for Managing Urinary Incontinence in Primary Care: Sharing Progress from AHRQ’s EvidenceNOW Initiative
AHRQ’s EvidenceNOW: Managing Urinary Incontinence has paved the way for grantees to create resources to help primary care practices implement evidence-based care and improve the quality UI treatment.
U.S. Health Care Leaders Embark on International Study Tour for Knowledge Exchange in Health Care and Policy
U.S. health care leaders will explore health care delivery and policy landscapes in New Zealand, Australia, and Singapore as part of an 11-day international study tour with the Commonwealth Fund and AcademyHealth.