For population health scientists, community-research partnerships are often thought of as one avenue to build equity and social justice into research by working with communities to build the tools and resources to addresses health inequities. But how can we ensure that these partnerships work effectively, and what unique opportunities does community based research offer population health? In this episode we chat with the leaders of the Sunnyside Strong Collaborative in Houston, Felicia Jackson, Family Support Services Manager at the Houston Area Urban League, Rachel Kimbro, PhD, a sociologist at Rice University, and Quianta Moore, MD, JD and a Fellow in Child Health Policy at the Baker Institute for Public Policy. This team was recently awarded IAPHS’ Community Research Partnership Award to recognize excellence in collaboration between community groups and population health researchers. Join us to unpack how this team developed an award-winning research collaboration, the lessons they learned, and where their work is going next. Learn more about Sunnyside Strong by checking out the team’s summary report.

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A structural understanding of racial inequalities has begun to take root across the U.S. Public health stakeholders, citizens activists, and lawmakers, at even the highest level of government, have indeed begun to consider that interventions to combat racial health inequity must be designed with systemic racism in mind. In this episode of Sick Individuals/Sick Populations, we speak with several scholars from the University of Michigan’s Racism Lab–a transdisciplinary collective at the forefront of scholarship on structural racism–about the crucial contributions of a structural racism framework for the current historical moment. Join us as we chat with Kayla Fike; Ramona Perry; and Dr. Myles Durkee about their research on racial inequality; their advice for building out a productive interdisciplinary group; and the upcoming RacismLab symposium, Toxic Equilibrium, which will focus on structural racism and population welfare.

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