Resources from Challenging the Norm: Redefining Rigor in Health Research

These resources were submitted by participants in preparation for the Ways of Knowing Symposia. We are sharing them here for those interested.

Academic Journal Publications

Airhihenbuwa, C. O., Ford, C., Iwelunmor, J., Griffith, D. M., Ameen, K., Murray, T., & Nwaozuru, U. (2024). Decolonization and antiracism: intersecting pathways to global health equity. Ethnicity & Health, 29(7), 846–860. https://doi.org/10.1080/13557858.2024.2371429

Amani B, McAndrew B, Sharif MZ, Garcia J, Nwankwo E, Cabral A, Abotsi-Kowu C, Khan H, Le C, Ponder ML, Ford CL. An Equity-Based Scoring System for Evaluating Surveillance-Related Harm in Public Health Crises. Ethn Dis. 2023 Mar 31;33(1):63-75. doi: 10.18865/2022-2022. PMID: 38846262; PMCID: PMC11152151.

Came, H. & Griffith, D. Tackling racism as a “wicked” public health problem: Enabling allies in anti-racism praxis, Social Science & Medicine, Volume 199, 2018, Pages 181-188, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2017.03.028.

Concannon TW, Fuster M, Saunders T, Patel K, Wong JB, Leslie LK, Lau J. A systematic review of stakeholder engagement in comparative effectiveness and patient-centered outcomes research. J Gen Intern Med. 2014 Dec;29(12):1692-701. doi: 10.1007/s11606-014-2878-x. Epub 2014 Jun 4. PMID: 24893581; PMCID: PMC4242886.

Ford C (2016). Public Health Critical Race Practice: An Introduction, An Intervention, and Three Points for Consideration 

Ford CL, Airhihenbuwa CO. The public health critical race methodology: praxis for antiracism research. Soc Sci Med. 2010 Oct;71(8):1390-8. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2010.07.030. Epub 2010 Aug 11. PMID: 20822840.

Ford CL, Harawa NT. A new conceptualization of ethnicity for social epidemiologic and health equity research. Soc Sci Med. 2010 Jul;71(2):251-258. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2010.04.008. Epub 2010 Apr 29. PMID: 20488602; PMCID: PMC2908006.

Ford CL, Takahashi LM, Chandanabhumma PP, Ruiz ME, Cunningham WE. Anti-Racism Methods for Big Data Research: Lessons Learned from the HIV Testing, Linkage, & Retention in Care (HIV TLR) Study. Ethn Dis. 2018 Aug 9;28(Suppl 1):261-266. doi: 10.18865/ed.28.S1.261. PMID: 30116096; PMCID: PMC6092168.

Goldstein CM, Krukowski RA. The Importance of Lay Summaries for Improving Science Communication. Ann Behav Med. 2023 Jun 30;57(7):509-510. doi: 10.1093/abm/kaad027. PMID: 37379509; PMCID: PMC10465106.

Greenberg, M., London, R. A., & McKay, S. C. (2020). Community-Initiated Student-Engaged Research: Expanding Undergraduate Teaching and Learning through Public Sociology. Teaching Sociology, 48(1), 13-27. https://doi.org/10.1177/0092055X19875794

Griffith DM. Antiracism and Health Equity Science: Overcoming Scientific Obstacles to Health Equity. Public Health Reports®. 2024;139(3):288-293. doi:10.1177/00333549241236089

Griffith, Derek M.; Umeukeje, Ebele M. Navigating to Kidney Health Equity. JASN 33(7):p 1242-1244, July 2022. | DOI: 10.1681/ASN.2022040421 

Max, K. (2005). Chapter Four: Anti-colonial Research: WORKING as an ALLY with ABORIGINAL PEOPLES. Counterpoints, 252, 79–94. http://www.jstor.org/stable/42978745 

Petteway RJ. Adjustment. Health Promotion Practice. 2022;23(5):761-763. doi:10.1177/15248399221121119 

Petteway, RJ. Intergenerational photovoice perspectives of place and health in public housing: Participatory coding, theming, and mapping in/of the “structure struggle”, Health & Place, Volume 60, 2019, 102229. 

Petteway RJ. Jesus Was an Epidemiologist (and Black), PT.I. Health Promotion Practice. 2022;23(6):932-933. doi:10.1177/15248399221128002

Petteway, R. J. (2022). On epidemiology as racial-capitalist (re)colonization and epistemic violence. Critical Public Health, 33(1), 5–12. https://doi.org/10.1080/09581596.2022.2107486

Petteway RJ. PRESENCE//Gifted: On Poetry, Antiracism, and Epistemic Violence in Health Promotion. Health Promotion Practice. 2023;24(1):37-44. doi:10.1177/15248399221129535

Petteway RJ. proc prun/roses, 2023,Health Affairs Vol. 42, No. 10

Petteway, R. (2022). RELATIVES//Risks or, I am not your data: Ode to Delphrine’s walk, pt. II. Critical Public Health, 33(1), 1–4. https://doi.org/10.1080/09581596.2022.2096429 

Petteway RJ. Something something something by race, 2021, International Journal of Epidemiology, Volume 51, Issue 4, August 2022, Pages 1353–1354, https://doi.org/10.1093/ije/dyac010

Petteway, R. J. (2022). What you should know about RACISM-20 in the U.S.: a fact sheet in the time of COVID-19. Critical Public Health, 32(5), 765–769. https://doi.org/10.1080/09581596.2022.2078180

Petteway RJ, Burch SR, Dill LJ. Altering Auras, Ideas, and Dreams: Naming and (Re)Claiming a Poetry for the Public’s Health. Health Promotion Practice. 2022;23(4):537-542. doi:10.1177/15248399221105793

Petteway RJ, González LA. Engaging Public Health Critical Race Praxis in Local Social Determinants of Health Research: The Youth Health Equity and Action Research Training Program in Portland, OR—yHEARTPDX. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2022; 19(13):8187. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19138187 

Petteway RJ, López-Cevallos D, Mohsini M, Lopez A, Hunte RS, Holbert T, Madamala K. Engaging Antiracist And Decolonial Praxis To Advance Equity In Oregon Public Health Surveillance Practices Health AffairsVol. 43, No. 6, 2024. 

Petteway RJ, Mujahid M, Allen A, Morello-Frosch R. The body language of place: A new method for mapping intergenerational “geographies of embodiment” in place-health research, Social Science & Medicine, Volume 223, 2019, Pages 51-63, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2019.01.027

Petteway R, Mujahid M, Allen A, Morello-Frosch R. Towards a People’s Social Epidemiology: Envisioning a More Inclusive and Equitable Future for Social Epi Research and Practice in the 21st Century. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2019; 16(20):3983. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16203983

Schultz K, Spencer MS. Centering Indigenous Research & Communities in Advancing Antiracist Research. Journal of the Society for Social Work and Research 2023 14:1, 129-149.

Shelton, R. C., Adsul, P., Oh, A., Moise, N., & Griffith, D. M. (2021). Application of an antiracism lens in the field of implementation science (IS): Recommendations for reframing implementation research with a focus on justice and racial equity. Implementation Research and Practice, 2. https://doi.org/10.1177/26334895211049482

 

Websites & Other Online Resources

Conducting research through an anti-racism lens from the University of Minnesota Libraries

Design Justice Network Audio & Video Resources

Engage for Equity: Combining Knowledge and Action for Social Change

Engaging Stakeholders in Community-Based Participatory Research Partnerships, Tufts Clinical and Translational Science Institute

Innovative Research Methods: Community Initiated Student Engaged Research (CISER) from We Belong

Recruitment Innovation Center, Center for Knowledge Management at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center

 

Books, Reports, and Similar Resources

100 Metrics to Assess and Communicate the Value of Biomedical Research: An Ideas Book by Susan Guthrie, Joachim Krapels, Catherine A. Lichten, Steven Wooding

Anti-racism Praxis: A Community Organizing Approach for Achieving Health and Social Equity From the book Community Organizing and Community Building for Health and Social Equity, 4th edition by Derek M. Griffith and Heather Came https://doi.org/10.36019/9781978824775-008

Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples by Linda Tuhiwai Smith

Guidelines for Researchers: A Guide to Establishing Effective Mutually-beneficial Research Partnerships with American Indian Tribes, Families and Individuals, March 2019 from The Partnership for Native American Cancer Prevention, U54CA143924 in Tucson, Arizona

Tribal Critical Race Theory: An Origin Story and Future Directions By Bryan McKinley Jones Brayboy in Handbook of Critical Race Theory in Education

Tribal Evaluation Workgroup. “A Roadmap for Collaborative and Effective Evaluation in Tribal Communities.” Children’s Bureau, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. September 2013.  

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