BeckerGuides: Community-Engaged Research: Racial Equity in Research

Racial Equity in Research

Byrd, W.M., & Clayton, L.A. (2001). Race, Medicine, and Health Care in the United States: A Historical Survey. Journal of the National Medical Association, 93(3), 11S-34S.: Provides historical context for the legacy of racial discrimination and racism in healthcare and medical research.
Coleman, B. R., Collins, C. R., & Bonam, C. M. (2021). Interrogating Whiteness in Community Research and Action. American Journal of Community Psychology, 67(3-4), 486-504. 10.1002/ajcp.12473: Discusses the role of Whiteness in research settings, as well as how Whiteness can often be ignored to the detriment of racial equity efforts.
Khan, M. S., Guinto, R. R., Boro, E., Rahman-Shepard, A., & Erondu, N. A. (2022). The need for metrics to measure progress on racial equity in global public health and medicine. The Lancet, 400(10368), P2019-2021. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(22)02464-3: Calls for measurements that can be used to assess racial equity movements, especially in organizational settings, and highlights some aspects that are lacking from current activities.
Office of Minority Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services: Includes a number of resources about racial health inequities, including demographics, frameworks for addressing racial equity, and resources to enhance cultural competency.
Paul J. Fleming et al. “Antiracism and Community-Based Participatory Research: Synergies, Challenges, and Opportunities”, American Journal of Public Health 113, no. 1 (January 1, 2023): pp. 70-78. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2022.307114

Tools and Resources

Castillo, E. G., & Harris, C. (2021). Directing Research Toward Health Equity: a Health Equity Research Impact Assessment. Journal of General Internal Medicine, 36(9), 2803-2808. 10.1007/s11606-021-06789-3: Assessment tool that can be used throughout the research process to assess racial equity efforts.
How to Embed a Racial and Ethnic Equity Perspective in Research: Practical Guidance for the Research Process: Tools for utilizing a racial and ethnic perspective in qualitative and quantitative data collection, analysis, and presentation.
Urban Institute Guide for Racial Equity in the Research Process: Lists questions about racial equity for topics including proposal writing, forming teams, and qualitative and quantitative research.
Racial Equity Impact Assessment: List of questions to ask during decision-making to determine the potential impact of the work on racial equity.
Updated Guidance on the Reporting of Race and Ethnicity in Medical and Science Journals: Provides language guidelines for authors writing about race, ethnicity, and racial equity.

Data with a Racial Equity Lens

Advancing Better Outcomes for All Children: Reporting Data Using A Racial Equity Lens: This guidebook addresses ways to present and frame data with a racial equity mindset.
Applying Racial Equity Awareness in Data Visualization: Provides guidance for displaying data about race in charts, graphs, and other visual elements.
Shearer, E. (2020, October 26). The dividing line: how we represent race in data. Open Data Institute .: Provides context for the use of data about race and appeals for more nuanced, specified language in data collection.

For Community Partners

Making Racial Equity Real in Research: Guidebook for community partners and academic researchers on equity-focused research.
Talking About Race Toolkit: Uses a framework of ‘Affirm, Counter, Transform’ to frame communications about race.
National Collaborative for Health Equity’s Racial Equity & Truth, Racial Healing and Transformation: A number of toolkits for racial equity assessments, as well as planning activities and goals to forward racial equity.