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How Can Communities and Research Institutions Work Together for Health Equity?

Zinzi Bailey

 

The Interdisciplinary Research Leaders (IRL) Program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, in collaboration with the Journal of Participatory Research Methods (JPRM), is thrilled to announce the publication of a special issue on “How Communities and Research Institutions Work Together to Dismantle Structural Racism and Advance Health Equity.” 

The issue contains 15 articles addressing the challenges and successes involved in research prioritizing meaningful community collaboration and shared leadership between those in research and community settings. The articles come from a wide range of U.S. geographies, from California’s Central Valley to rural Missouri to urban Boston, and describe a variety of participatory research methods used to address structural issues such as housing equity or barriers to health care, for an array of communities, including immigrant or minoritized communities, women, children, youth, and disinvested urban and rural communities.

The authors include current IRL fellows, IRL alumni, and other community-based researchers focused on conducting community-engaged, action-oriented research to reduce/eliminate structural racism and make progress toward health equity.

Click here to read the JPRM special issue

About the authors

Zinzi Bailey
Zinzi Bailey Zinzi Bailey is a social epidemiologist focused on cancer health disparities, as well as the health impacts of and policy solutions for structural and institutional racism, especially at the intersection of public health and criminal justice. She is also interested in the use of data in equitable policy and management. She is currently an Assistant Scientist at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine’s Jay Weiss Institute for Health Equity at the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center. Zinzi was the Director of Research and Evaluation at the Center for Health Equity in the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene from 2015–2017. She was a postdoctoral fellow at McGill’s Institute for Health and Social Policy from 2014-2015, and a Research Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management 2011-2014. She received her Doctor of Science degree in Social and Behavioral Sciences from Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, and her Master of Science in Public Health degree with a concentration in Global Epidemiology from Emory University. Zinzi serves as a Senior Advisor to Robert Wood Johnson's Interdisciplinary Research Leaders and a Mentor for Robert Wood Johnson's Health Policy Research Scholars.

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