AcademyHeath manages the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s new program, Community Research for Health Equity, which seeks to elevate community voices through community-led research projects that make the priorities of communities the primary goal of local health system transformation efforts. The inaugural ten grantees will address local health care system issues of importance to communities of color, people with disabilities, LGBTQ+ individuals, and other historically marginalized populations. Read more about the awarded projects in this brief overview, or by clicking on the links to each grant description below.
- Cultivating a Community of Care: Amplifying the Voices of Native American Students in Premedicine and Undergraduate Nursing
- The May 6 Initiative: Community Research for Reproductive Health Equity
- South Texas Community-Based Research for LGBTQ+ Health Equity
- Minoritized Muslims, Discrimination and Health Care: A Pathway Forward
- Examination of the Effect of Implicit Bias and Perceived Discrimination on the Provision of Health Care among African American Women Ages 18-44 in MS
- Illuminating the Shadows: Refugee and Migrant-Led Analysis of Language Inaccess in Health Care as a Product of White Structural and Cultural Dominance
- When All Are Counted: Closing the Health Surveillance Gap in West Virginia
- Young Visionaries for Health: Youth Leading Research to Promote Equity in Mental Health Systems of Care in a Rural Community in NC
- Native American Health Survey Among Marginalized Tribal Communities
- White Systems, Black Lives: Exposing Racial and Linguistic Barriers to Independence and Community Living for Disabled BIPOC in Springfield, MA