The NIH Common Fund’s Transformative Health Disparities Research Initiative

Community Listening Sessions

The NIH Common Fund Wants to Hear from You!

October 26, 28 | November 2, 4, 9, 10, 16, 18

About

To catalyze transformation in how communities are engaged in research to address health disparities and advance health equity, the NIH Common Fund is developing a new program planned to launch in the Fiscal Year 2023. If successful, this new program would have a major impact in developing, disseminating, or implementing innovative and effective interventions that prevent, reduce, or eliminate health disparities and health inequities. These efforts align with other NIH efforts to end structural racism and stimulate health equity research. This potential program may involve multiple initiatives through which awardees work together on collective goals within ten years.

Through a series of facilitated listening sessions with the community, the NIH Common Fund’s Transformative Research to Address Health Disparities and Advance Health Equity working group seeks your input on new, innovative research into health disparities, minority health, and health equity. Specifically, we are interested in hearing ideas for approaches to this type of research in which community members are actively engaged in the research process.

Listening Session Goal

The goal of the listening sessions is to understand the opportunities, challenges, and community needs surrounding interventions that target social factors that influence health and how your community perceives these issues. The listening session series is an opportunity to gather members from various stakeholder groups to inform a coordinated program of health disparities and health equity research supported through the NIH Common Fund. These include Community-Based Organizations, Tribal Communities and Organizations, Faith-Based Organizations, Advocacy Organizations, Professional Societies, and Colleges and Universities.

Dates

October 26, 2021	12:00 – 1:30 p.m. ET	Academic Institutions Click here to view the meeting slides. Guest Speakers: Debra Furr-Holden, PhD Michigan State University C.S. Mott Endowed Professor of Public Health Associate Dean for Public Health Integration Director of the Flint Center for Health Equity Solutions E. Yvonne Lewis, BBA, BS Founder/CEO, National Center for African American Health Consciousness Co-Director , Healthy Flint Coordinating Center
October 28, 2021	6:00 – 7:30 p.m. ET	Non-Profit Organizations (NPOs), Community-Based Organizations (CBOs), Faith-Based Organizations (FBOs) Click here to view the meeting slides. Guest Speaker: Rev. Kendrick E. Curry Pennsylvania Avenue Baptist Church
November 2, 2021	12:00 – 1:30 p.m. ET	Foundations, Think Tanks, and Professional Societies Click here to view the meeting slides. Guest Speakers: Regina Davis Moss, PhD, MPH, MCHES American Public Health Association Associate Executive Director, Health Policy and Practice Elena Rios, MD, MSPH, FACP National Hispanic Medical Association President and CEO
November 4, 2021	2:00 – 3:30 p.m. ET	Tribal Communities and Organizations Click here to view the meeting slides. Guest Speakers: Valarie Blue Bird Jernigan, DrPH, MPH Oklahoma State University Professor of Rural Health Executive Director, Center for Indigenous Health Research and Policy Bobby Saunkeah, RN, MSHCE, CIP Director, Division of Research and Public Health Chair, Institutional Review Board Chickasaw Nation Department of Health
November 9, 2021	12:00 – 1:30 p.m. ET	Non-Profit Organizations (NPOs), Community-Based Organizations (CBOs), Faith-Based Organizations (FBOs) Click here to view the meeting slides.
November 10, 2021	6:00 – 7:30 p.m. ET	Academic Institutions Guest Speakers: Arleen Brown, MD, PhD University of California Los Angeles General Internist and Health Services Researcher Mona AuYoung, PhD, MS, MPH University of California Los Angeles Research Scientist
November 16, 2021	12:00 – 1:30 p.m. ET	Non-Profit Organizations (NPOs), Community-Based Organizations (CBOs), Faith-Based Organizations (FBOs) Click here to view the meeting slides. Guest Speaker: Richard Lee, PhD University of Minnesota Professor of Psychology
November 18, 2021	6:00 – 7:30 p.m. ET	Foundations, Think Tanks, and Professional Societies Click here to view the meeting slides. Guest Speaker: Lauren Suplee, PhD William T. Grant Foundation Senior Program Officer

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For more information visit:

The NIH Common Fund Transformative Research to Address Health Disparities and Advance Health Equity Initiative: https://commonfund.nih.gov/healthdisparitiestransformation
Health Equity Research at NIH: https://www.nih.gov/ending-structural-racism/health-equity-research
UNITE: https://www.nih.gov/ending-structural-racism