2024: Uplifting Voices and Learning From Others

Image of E4A National Program Office at the Ways of Knowing Culmination from left to right: Ye Ji Kim, Natalie DiRocco, Amani Nuru-Jeter, Steph Chernitskiy, Elissa Carey, Erin Hagan, Jeana Morrison, Lacinda Benjamin

This year was full of hard work and dedication as we co-hosted and co-organized five Ways of Knowing symposia, funded eight Indigenous-led research projects through our Indigenous-led Solutions to Advance Health and Wellbeing call for proposals, and welcomed new perspectives and expertise to our program team and review committee including our wonderful Program Assistant, Lacinda Benjamin. Learn more about our program and review team.

Recently, we brought the Ways of Knowing events to a close with a culminating event in St. Louis, MO in conjunction with Race Forward’s Facing Race conference. Over the course of the next year we’ll workshop the emerging themes from the symposia with different decision-makers in the health science knowledge system (e.g., funders, publishers, journal editors, academic administrators, etc.) with the ultimate goal of creating an action plan that can hone in on real opportunities for change.

We’re looking forward to continuing our work in 2025!

What We're Reading

“Ripples of Hope in the Mississippi Delta”

Published this month, a book called “Ripples of Hope in the Mississippi Delta” by the late David K. Jones is best described by Dr. Jamily Michener from the “Health Equity Policy, Community, and the Mississippi Delta” webinar as “a real cognizance of the deep and abiding problems with our systems and structures which produce and reproduce in very consistent and painful ways, inequities, of the kind we see in the Mississippi Delta, and well beyond that… This book doesn’t allow us to run from it, but… allows us to hold alongside this harsh reality a sense of hope and optimism about what people can do, and how they might be able to do it.”

What We're Watching

Hollywood, Health & Society (HHS), a program at the USC Annenberg Norman Lear Center that provides entertainment industry professionals with information on storylines about health, safety, and security, recently shared a video “Is Systemic Racism Still a Thing?” to foster meaningful conversations on systemic racism in classrooms and beyond.

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What We're Funding

Hewechek’ Creating Yurok Health Indicators in Support of Indigenous Stewardship Management Practices and Community Health and Wellbeing

Combatting Youth Beverage Marketing with Indigenous Culture

What We're Learning

An introduction to the San Francisco Pregnancy Family Village: A community-informed one-stop-shop delivering comprehensive wellness and anti-racist care to visitors. View the infographic to learn more about what the village is, how it works, who it serves, and the impact it’s had so far.

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Latest E4A Blogs and Methods Notes

The Milestones of E4A’s 2024 Journey

Reflections from the "Challenging the Norm: Redefining Rigor in Health Research

Multiple Comparison Adjustments in Health and Racial Equity Research

Featured Applicant Resource

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In Other News

Systems for Action hosted an enlightening panel discussion with grantees from their program and ours, Challenging the Status Quo: Shifting Power in Research Partnership.

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Grantmakers and philanthropists often grapple with a false dichotomy of trust-based (deferring to community priorities) versus strategic (advancing the foundation’s mission) philanthropy. In a new op-ed we argue that it’s possible to do both by embracing an approach that reflects the funder’s vision and goals while also respecting community culture and wisdom.

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Evidence For Action

at UCSF

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