Research and Publications
Building the evidence base for policy and practice changes that address the root causes of health inequity.
Understanding why some communities are healthier than others requires focused research. Health equity research convenes experts, organizations, and community members to identify when these differences are caused by unfair treatment, measure the problem, understand why it’s happening, and develop evidence-based solutions tailor-made by and for the communities they’re meant to serve.
The AAMC Center for Health Justice’s health equity research provides crucial information for AAMC member institutions, policymakers, community organizations, and public health officials to make informed decisions about resources, programs, and policy changes that will make a difference in giving everyone the opportunity to be healthy.
AAMC CHARGE Investigates: 2026 Call for Research
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Research from the Center
Learn about the AAMC Medical-Legal Partnership Evaluation Cohort and get tools for evaluating medical-legal partnerships.
In this guest blog, learn how the NIH is directly funding community organizations to study how structural factors can impact health outcomes.
In Civil Eats, AAMC Environmental Justice Fellow Anthony Nicome offers policy solutions to grow healthy, sustainable food systems in Black communities.
Trust isn’t just about how much confidence a patient has in a provider; it’s about how trustworthy the provider, and the system itself, proves to be.
Pre-med volunteer and AAMC biomedical research workforce specialist Jasmine Lopez shares how she sees health justice in action at a clinic in Phoenix, AZ.
Those committed to health and racial justice must do a better job of connecting the dots between historic injustice and modern day inequity.
A new paper presents evaluation tools for community health partnerships to improve social determinants of health, health system savings, and learner outcomes.
Subgrantees from the Building Trust and Confidence Through Partnerships program share their lessons learned in their second year.
New paper in Milbank Quarterly describes a framework for trustworthiness and multisector coalition building to improve population health.
A commentary published online ahead of print in Academic Medicine calls on academic medical institutions to do more to build a strong network of collaborators.