"Health equity means that everyone has a fair and just opportunity to be as healthy as possible. This requires removing obstacles to health such as poverty, discrimination, and their consequences, including powerlessness and lack of access to good jobs with fair pay, quality education and housing, safe environments, and health care. For the purposes of measurement, health equity means reducing and ultimately eliminating disparities in health and its determinants that adversely affect excluded or marginalized groups."
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Substantive expertise
- Traumatic brain injury, infectious disease, substance use disorder, mental health, racial and ethnic disparities, age, gender, abilities, homelessness, social determinants of health, and health policy
Methodological expertise
- Clinical trials, health services, qualitative, survey methods, mixed-methods, implementation science, community-based participatory research, health economics, biostatistics, and mathematical modeling
- Already collaborating through and leading methods cores/centers
- Engaged in moving conceptualization of health equity forward
Please email us at healthequityresearch@hsc.utah.edu.