Healthy Native Communities Fellowship & Indigenous Wellness Models
Indigenous wellness approaches that integrate traditional knowledge, cultural practices, and community-defined health priorities to improve health and well-being.
Tribal Positive Youth Development
Positive Youth Development adapted for Tribal communities through the incorporation of cultural identity, traditions, language, and community connections.
National Diabetes Prevention Program Cultural Adaptations
Evidence-based diabetes prevention programs adapted to reflect cultural foods, family structures, language, and community contexts.
Family Spirit
A culturally tailored, home-visiting intervention developed in partnership with Native communities that supports maternal and child health through pregnancy and early childhood.
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.
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.