Arts & Culture

Countering Isolation With Creativity

By Teresa Bonner 1

Arts programming specially designed to help older adults access and benefit from quality lifelong learning can foster connection with others and restore a sense of purpose and joy to their lives.

Health

Ensuring Equitable Access to Vaccines

By Ann Lee & Sheila Davis

As the United States struggles to vaccinate everyone in the nation, governments and community-based organizations trying to eliminate barriers to access for high-risk, rural, and remote communities must consider geography, partnerships, language, schedules, and technology.

Leadership

We Need to Reimagine the Modern Think Tank

By Emma Vadehra

Think tanks can only help pave the path toward a more inclusive, just, and equal country if we modernize our concept of expertise, re-think who gets to drive policy change, and re-imagine how policy is developed.

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Equity Is Fundamental to Implementation Science

By Audrey Loper, Beadsie Woo & Allison Metz

Implementation science has not advanced equitable outcomes routinely, explicitly, or intentionally. Here’s how it can.

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Trust the People

By Blake Strode & Amy Morris

Centering equity in funding relationships requires trust. It also takes time, resources, and a willingness to shift power to the people closest to the problem.

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Youth Leadership in Action

By Steven D. Cohen, Leonard Burton & Elliott Hinkle

Youth and young adults helped develop and implement a new initiative, Youth Thrive, that addresses the challenges they face in foster care.

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Community Takes the Wheel

By Winsome Stone, Matthew Billings & Rebecca Boxx

A new framework, Evidence2Success, gave the Children and Youth Cabinet a road map to put equity at the center of its work with young people.

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Equity in Implementation Science Is Long Overdue

By Ana A. Baumann & Pamela Denise Long

Implementation researchers and practitioners must examine how the field can be truly equitable. A systemic approach offers a path forward.

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Listening to Black Parents

By William Jackson & Kristine Andrews 4

Black children experience racial discrimination in academic environments that actively deplete their self-worth. By accessing the cultural knowledge of Black parents, Village of Wisdom co-designed a liberatory approach to education.

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Faith-Based Organizations as Leaders of Implementation

By Rubén Parra-Cardona, Ofelia Zapata, Maria Emerson, Deliana Garcia & Rev. Jairo Sandoval-Pliego

Implementation science must recognize faith-based organizations as key leaders of change in underserved immigrant communities.