AAMC CHARGE

The AAMC Collaborative for Health Equity: Act, Research, Generate Evidence (CHARGE) cultivates the health equity community by advancing collaborative research, policy, and programmatic solutions to health and health care inequities. 

The vision of AAMC CHARGE is an equitable and just society in which academic health centers and their multisector and community partners:

• Prioritize health equity research, action and policy change.
• Partner with communities, families, patients, and sectors outside health care to address the many factors that contribute to a community's health.
• Advocate for structural changes that address the root causes of health inequities.

Check out what AAMC CHARGE and the AAMC Center for Health Justice have accomplished together:

• The Principles of Trustworthiness, the Center's foundational framework, tools, and workshops for organizations working to become trustworthy partners to their communities, was created with 13 AAMC CHARGE participants across the country and their community partners.
• AAMC CHARGE participants contribute to many of the Center's responses to federal requests for input on health equity topics via surveys, webinars, and listening sessions.
• Participants share their accomplishments and crowdsource opportunities for professional achievement through Who's in CHARGE? spotlights and in the AAMC CHARGE virtual community.
• AAMC CHARGE participants co-determined the Center's Health Justice Research Agenda with the Center and the Multisector Partner Group. Members collaborate on research and policy projects in topical working groups.
• The 2024 AAMC CHARGE Investigates Call for Research gathered public opinion polling data on topics chosen by AAMC CHARGE. Research teams will have access to the data for two years.

How AAMC CHARGE Cultivates the Health Equity Community

In 2023, the center collaborated with the American Public Health Association (APHA) to highlight how AAMC CHARGE contributes to the work of the center. A new video features center staff and AAMC CHARGE members and highlights the importance of working together to achieve health equity for all communities.