There are subtleties to advocacy messaging—there’s no one size fits all approach. But evidence demonstrates that what advocates say, and to whom, can help or hinder efforts to build a Culture of Health. Learn more in this piece from E4A grantees Jeff Niederdeppe and Liana Winett.
Crowdsourced innovative and/or transformative studies published in 2021 - innovative referring to approaches or methods that are novel or applied in new ways; and transformative reflecting studies that made meaningful contributions to decision- and policy-making to effect change.
Mediators, or intervening or process variables, through which the effect of an exposure on an outcome works, can provide insights into how the exposure works and indicate which factors to intervene on to reduce or eliminate an inequity.
May Lynn Tan discusses what the explicit focus on racial equity means for the types of research funded through Evidence for Action. She highlights a few ways in which research might advance racial equity - both in topic and approach.
Evidence for Action (E4A) and Race Forward recently had the pleasure of hosting an incredibly dynamic and thought-provoking discussion between Drs. Thomas A. LaVeist, Assata-Nicole Richards, and George Ayala moderated by our very own Dr.