Like many of you, we are using the first part of the summer to catch up on everything, including our reading, while we also plan for some exciting new developments later this year (stay tuned!). This month’s blog highlights great reads to consider adding to your own reading list. We feature the top posts from our own blog, interesting posts from our favorite blogs, and a selection of books.
Top E4A Methods Blog Posts
While we hope you would enjoy reading all of our posts – from the inaugural post (Methods: The Framework for Building High-Quality Evidence to Inform Decision-making) to the most recent (Qualitative Research & the E4A Funding Opportunity) – we highlight our 5 most-read posts below.
- Checking Our Bias in “Unbiased” Research Instruments: Applying a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Lens to Instrument Design
- Food Security During a Pandemic and Beyond: How Research Can Support Action
- An Introduction to a Roadmap for Causal Inference
- Determining the Causal Effects of Interventions: Alternative Methods for Evaluation
- (Em)powering Population Health Decision-Making: Maximizing the Potential of Social Interventions Research
Reads from Other Interesting Blogs
Here are recent posts from some of our favorite blogs:
- Achieving Health Equity Begins with Advancing Racial Equity by Maisha Simmons in the RWJF Culture of Health Blog
- Reconciling context, effort, and ability: Can we expand our thinking to better engage with the full range of forces that shape our lives, and our health? By Sandro Galea in The Healthiest Goldfish
- Pride v. Prejudice: The Threat of Misinformation to the LGBTQ+ Community by Dana Watters in CitiesSpeak, a blog from the National League of Cities
- Public Health and Community Development Roundtable: Reflections on How Sectors Can Join Forces to Advance Health and Racial Equity by Alexis Sims in the Build Healthy Places Network Blog
- Two Narratives About Values and Population Health Science — and a Blog Series to Explore Them by Christine Bachrach in the IAPHS Blog
- Titan Submarine Connection to Public Health by Omari Richins in The Public Health Millennial Blog
Books on Our Summer Reading List
For those looking for longer form reads, here are a handful of books that we have on our summer reading lists:
- How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America and Above Ground Poems by Clint Smith
- Call Us What We Carry by Amanda Gorman
- Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
- From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the 21st Century by William A. Darity, Jr. and A. Kirsten Mullen
- They Called Us Enemy by George Takei in collaboration with Justin Eisinger, Steven Scott, and Harmony Becker
- The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together by Heather McGee
- Inventing Latinos: A New Story of American Racism by Laura E. Gómez
- Poverty, by America by Matthew Desmond
- The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story by Nikole Hannah-Jones
- Demystifying Disability: What to Know, What to Say, and How to Be an Ally by Emily Ladau
- Justice of the Pies by Maya Camille Broussard
Do you have any additional recommendations for us? Email us at evidenceforaction@ucsf.edu.