Action Area Four: Work in coordination to achieve collective action

To achieve collective action, Funders, Journals, Academia, and Non-profits, can invest in and commit to working in partnership with one another to build national and local coalitions to support and advance a liberated HSKS, engage in multi-sectoral convenings, and peer-learning networks to co-create shared values, norms, and practices, develop success metrics and accountability measures, grow trust, share (and shift) power, and scale innovations for long-term impact.

• Facilitate and fund networks of people and organizations interested in achieving a shared goal to promote collaboration over competition
• Funders pool resources across philanthropies to create greater collaboration and translate ideas into action

• Incentivize and reward interdisciplinary and interdepartmental collaboration among faculty, staff, and administrators, and concretize effective practices into formal internal policies and processes.

• Engage with multi-disciplinary journal editors to share, formalize, and implement inclusive health equity and health justice research standards across the publishing enterprise
• Encourage diverse citation and theoretical sources, including community-based knowledge and research, grassroots and place-based experimentation, and emergent strategies across sectors
• Encourage or require publications to include directions for action that draw from research findings

• Build and sustain coalitions among established and emerging non-profits – ensuring meaningful decision-making authority and representation from smaller sub-populations – through peer learning networks, mentorship opportunities, resource sharing partnerships, capacity building opportunities, and collaborative research initiatives, to strengthen coordination, reduce duplication, and increase collective impact
  • When working in coalition, engage in a shared strategic planning process to identify common priorities, agendas, and motivations for research and data activities, and establish the values that will guide collaborative decision-making and collective action
• Formalize equitable partnership roles with funders, academic institutions, and other decision-makers (e.g., co-principal investigator positions, fair and equitable compensation, and community-led dissemination plans) to build power and hold institutions accountable to community priorities
• Establish practices for coalition trust-building, conflict resolution, and relationship repair (e.g., facilitated dialogue, shared agreements, feedback processes, and restorative conversations) to strengthen collaboration among non-profits, navigate disagreement constructively, and sustain long-term collective action
• Establish community-based implementation and learning laboratories/innovation hubs that enable communities and research partners to test, evaluate, refine, and scale evidence-informed solutions in real-world settings, with clear implementation plans, outcome measures, and accountability processes that demonstrate how findings will contribute to sustainable community change