Strengthening Families Program
An evidence-based family skills training program that improves parenting practices, youth social skills, and family relationships while reducing substance use and behavioral health risks.
Mental Health First Aid
An evidence-based training program that teaches participants how to identify, understand, and respond to signs of mental health and substance use challenges.
Reported community engagement in health equity research published in high-impact medical journals: a scoping review
A scoping review of 626 health-equity-focused articles that examines how often and at what stages communities were engaged. It finds that reported engagement was uncommon and rarely extended across the full research process.
Achieving the Health Equity Agenda Through Transformative Community-Engaged Strategies
An essay examining whether conventional community engagement has reached its potential to advance health equity. It calls for transformative, power-aware strategies that position communities as equal decision makers.
Advancing community-engaged research to promote health equity: considerations to improve the field
An overview of community-engaged research approaches, their value for health equity, and practical steps for applying core principles while avoiding tokenistic engagement.
Assessing Meaningful Community Engagement: A Conceptual Model to Advance Health Equity through Transformed Systems for Health
An introduction to the Assessing Community Engagement conceptual model, which centers equity, shared governance, trust, culturally centered approaches, and measurable outcomes of meaningful engagement.
Instruments for racial health equity: a scoping review of structural racism measurement, 2019–2021
A review of quantitative approaches used to measure structural racism, highlights methodological innovations, and identifies gaps that limit the evaluation of antiracist policy and racial health equity.
Health equity for persons with disabilities: a global scoping review on barriers and interventions in healthcare services
A synthesization of global evidence on barriers that people with disabilities face when accessing health services and reviews interventions intended to improve equitable access and quality.
Systemic and Structural Racism: Definitions, Examples, Health Damages, and Approaches to Dismantling
This article defines systemic and structural racism, explains pathways through which they harm health, and describes approaches for dismantling racist systems and advancing racial health equity.
Structural Racism, Place, and COVID-19: A Narrative Review Describing How We Prepare for an Endemic COVID-19 Future
This examines the connection between structural racism and place-based conditions to inequities in COVID-19 exposure and outcomes, including access to health care, clean air, and safe drinking water.