The grant will support the centering of racial health equality in systematic reviews.
Vivian Welch, interim CEO and Editor in Chief of the Campbell Collaboration, is part of the group of researchers who received the $1 million US funding.
“Campbell publishes research on social determinants of health, and this award enables us to carry out work that ties directly to our core mission,” she said.
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) is the largest American philanthropic organisation focused solely on health and healthcare. RWJF defines health equity to means that everyone has a fair and just opportunity to be as healthy as possible, which requires removing obstacles to health such as poverty, discrimination, and their consequences. Systematic reviews – rigorous and comprehensive syntheses and critical appraisal of evidence – is a gold standard research tool to improve dissemination of evidence-based practices that can reduce or eliminate disparities.
This prestigious collaboration of investigators and institutions will undertake a comprehensive and ambitious effort to listen to stakeholders and communities, perform landscape analyses of existing resources, and prioritize next steps as the first phase to centering racial health equity in systematic reviews. Principal investigators include awardees Vivian Welch (Campbell), Dru Riddle (Texas Christian University), Meera Viswanathan (RTI International), Patricia Heyn (Marymount University), Damian Francis (Georgia College), and Tiffany Duque (Cochrane).
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