The health equity lens aims to reduce and ultimately eliminate the systemic and structural inequities that place some at an unfair, unjust, and avoidable disadvantage in attaining their full health potential. Discover research, funding, and other announcements aligned with our health equity lens.
News
NINR published a funding opportunity supporting the development of interventions that make significant, sustainable improvements in health outcomes of rural populations. Application Due Date: May 17, 2024
NINR is proud to lead next steps for the Transformative Research to Address Health Disparities and Advance Health Equity Initiative and pleased to publish a new funding opportunity supporting innovative interventions to reduce health disparities and advance health equity. Application Due Date: March 22, 2024
Events
On April 2, 2024 at 11:00 a.m. (ET), NINR will host a pre-application webinar for funding opportunity announcement RFA-NR-24-005: Strategies to Improve Health Outcomes and Advance Health Equity in Rural Populations (R01 Clinical Trial Optional).
On February 13, 2024 at 2:00 p.m. (ET), NINR hosted a technical assistance webinar for funding opportunity announcement RFA-NR-24-004: Transformative Research to Address Health Disparities and Advance Health Equity (U01 Clinical Trial Optional).
On June 29, 2023, from 12:00 - 1:00 p.m. (ET), Daniel E. Dawes, JD, Senior Vice President of Global Health Equity and the Executive Director of the Institute of Global Health Equity at Meharry Medical College, will join NINR with co-hosts NIMHD and NIH OBSSR to share his expertise as a scholar, educator, and researcher on health equity and social and political determinants of health.
Featured Research
Motivated by her work as a trauma nurse, Dr. Sara Jacoby’s NINR-funded dissertation used ethnography to explore the experience and perceptions of Black patients with traumatic injuries.
University of Michigan’s Dr. Hsieh discusses her NINR-supported research on firearm injury prevention among Asian Americans and the potential of nursing research to address health inequities in firearm injury.
Firmly grounded in the belief that health outcomes must be contextualized, Dr. Hudson Santos is exploring whether a community-driven intervention that addresses social determinants of health can improve obesity-related outcomes among immigrant Latina mothers and their children.