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From RWJF:

RWJF, we are committed to creating a future where health is not a privilege, but a right. We are proud to work alongside many grantees and partners who share a determination to improve the health and wellbeing of our nation, with no one left behind.

Our work as researchers is made more difficult by the new federal administration eliminating equity-centered projects. Universities are losing academic freedom and funding. Public data are being recklessly deleted. These are direct and concerted attacks on science and knowledge.

Evidence—not ideology—has the power to improve society. The science is clear: structural racism harms the nation’s health. We are working to focus research on creating actionable and consequential science to topple those barriers. We can hone our health science research system to be inclusive of people with different experiences, perspectives, and ideas. We value scientific methods, and we also value local wisdom, innovative approaches, and new ways of working that will advance society in profound ways. We can push science to be better, so it can serve everyone.

In this spirit, see our latest funding opportunities to advance health equity.  

CALL FOR PROPOSALS

Evidence for Action

Progress toward racial and Indigenous health equity requires us to remove the barriers built in front of some of us that affect how we live, learn, work, and play—an effort we cannot abandon in the face of the current political environment. This new call for proposals includes two funding opportunities:

1. Support for timely, actionable health equity research that has been interrupted by federal administrative actions. Brief proposals due May 28.
2. Support new, community-led research that advances racial and Indigenous health equity by lifting the knowledge, expertise, and power of Indigenous people and other historically oppressed communities of color. Letters of intent due July 16.

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Systems for Action  

Effective solutions to systemic racism require medical care organizations working in partnership with public health, social services, and other systems. RWJF’s Systems for Action research program has issued a call for proposals for community-led pilot studies on how to help financing, public health, and other systems align work and to make health and wellbeing more equitable and accessible for all.

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Exploring Equitable Futures

Our efforts to advance research at RWJF involves experimenting with ideas that are at the cutting-edge of our collective imagination. In our newest call for proposals, we are looking for novel ideas that have the potential to advance health equity for generations to come. We would like to hear how your project will contribute insights and ideas to transform the Health Science Knowledge System. The proposal might focus on how data is collected or how research questions are designed. It may test unconventional methodologies, propose new modes of dissemination, or otherwise push the boundaries of how we produce and share evidence.

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Community-led initiatives, backed up by research evidence, are helping us get closer to health equity. There are reasons for hope all around us: research has shown us the positive effects of fair wages, ways to narrow the racial wealth gap, and how to maintain diversity in higher education. We need more evidence and more stories like these.

Please share this letter with your colleagues and students and ask them to subscribe. As my colleague Lauren Smith writes, ““No single individual or organization can make this kind of transformation happen alone. But together, we can do more than we might imagine.”