The health equity lens aims to reduce and ultimately eliminate the systemic and structural inequities that place some at an unfair, unjust, and avoidable disadvantage in attaining their full health potential.
News
Watch the recording of Dr. Mahasin Mujahid, Professor at the School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, as she discusses the role of nursing research in advancing science in maternal health using a social determinants of health lens.
NINR published a funding opportunity soliciting research that addresses how social determinants of health (SDOH) influence health outcomes at the intersection of social statuses in populations experiencing health disparities in the United States. Application Due Date: July 5, 2024
NINR published a funding opportunity supporting the development of interventions that make significant, sustainable improvements in health outcomes of rural populations. Application Due Date: May 17, 2024
Events
On August 27, 2024, from 12:00-1:30 p.m. (ET), Dr. Vincent Guilamo-Ramos, Executive Director of the Institute for Policy Solutions and Distinguished Professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, will join NINR to discuss the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Ending Unequal Treatment report.
On April 2, 2024 at 11:00 a.m. (ET), NINR will host a pre-application webinar for funding opportunity announcement RFA-NR-24-005: Strategies to Improve Health Outcomes and Advance Health Equity in Rural Populations (R01 Clinical Trial Optional).
On February 13, 2024 at 2:00 p.m. (ET), NINR hosted a technical assistance webinar for funding opportunity announcement RFA-NR-24-004: Transformative Research to Address Health Disparities and Advance Health Equity (U01 Clinical Trial Optional).
Featured Research
Motivated by her work as a trauma nurse, Dr. Sara Jacoby’s NINR-funded dissertation used ethnography to explore the experience and perceptions of Black patients with traumatic injuries.
University of Michigan’s Dr. Hsieh discusses her NINR-supported research on firearm injury prevention among Asian Americans and the potential of nursing research to address health inequities in firearm injury.
Firmly grounded in the belief that health outcomes must be contextualized, Dr. Hudson Santos is exploring whether a community-driven intervention that addresses social determinants of health can improve obesity-related outcomes among immigrant Latina mothers and their children.