The Institute for Latino Studies, in partnership with the Reilly Center Program for Health Humanities and Society and the Center for Social Concerns, presents a special lecture entitled “Centering Community to Advance Health Equity: Lessons from Evaluation of Co-Developed Interventions in Latinx Communities”
Dr. Saira Nawaz (Ohio State University) and Dr. Gloria Itzel Montiel (AltaMed Institute for Health Equity) present a story of community reilience, one based on community-based participatory research and implementation science that mobilizes and activates communities for social change and health equity in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Spanning community organizing and research engagement, their work highlights the importance of research that centers community and works with partners to develop evaluations that will generate relevant and actionable learnings to address entrenches social inequities and structural vulnerabilities.
