We partner with policymakers and health care organizations to assess opportunities to promote health equity across an array of services and processes.
In addition to helping clients identify systemic racism embedded in current policies and practices and design equity-focused initiatives and processes, we consult on community engagement work and facilitate focus groups and community conversations to inform equity-focused change. Community engagement is a critical component of advancing health equity, and our services encompass the full scope of this work from building new initiatives to evaluating and course correcting existing community engagement efforts.
These services include:
- Conducting and developing health equity impact assessments of ongoing projects
- Policy scans and policy analyses to highlight opportunities to embed equity in health policy
- Developing and consulting on implementation of health equity decision-making tools and rubrics
- Developing community engagement frameworks
- Building and evaluating community engagement efforts
- Conducting outreach, focus groups, and community conversations
- Identifying and addressing challenges in community engagement work
- Supporting the design of RFPs, contracts, and metrics that center equity
- Areas of focus include alternative payment methodologies, community outreach and engagement, reimbursement for lay health workers, and equity-focused health systems transformation