Advancing Health Equity through Learning Health System Research Symposium
This symposium is a premier assembly of researchers and health care professionals focused on improving equitable community and population health, as well as those striving to advance equity and workforce diversity to improve the delivery of health care. We will explore health equity topics specific to marginalized communities within the US health care system including maternal mortality/morbidity and infant mortality, behavioral health (including suicide prevention), cancer, and cardiovascular health.
This gathering will present work in a variety of different formats including traditional scientific posters, oral presentations, and story slams.
The themes of this inaugural symposium seek to understand and advance health equity for underrepresented and/or marginalized communities in the learning health system. Presentations center around the following themes:
- Clinical Innovation – Examples of work that addresses gaps in care and continuity of care; is culturally informed; draws on or enhances principles of the learning health system to promote health equity in the LHS
- Community and Stakeholder Engagement – Examples of patient-clinician communication; work that is patient-centered, community-informed and/or community-driven; best practices to maintain and sustain meaningful partnerships to promote health equity; how to define meaningful community engagement and assess its impact – especially related to specific health and health care programs, policies, and outcomes
- Research/Evaluation – Explores and utilizes principles of the learning health system to improve individual and population health and reduce disparities; work that generates objective evidence and actionable knowledge to promote health equity; develops effective and sustainable strategies to reduce or eliminate disparities within the healthcare system; appropriate study designs and analytic methods founded in health equity; big data analytic methods to target inequities and reduce disparities; sources of bias and inequity in algorithmic decision-making
- Creative – Presents personal stories, new or unique thoughts, ideas, and practices that has become or is becoming a part of advancing health equity in the learning health system
- Ethics – Considers ethical aspects of working with historically excluded, underrepresented, and marginalized patient populations in clinical research
- Special Topics, Critical, or Emerging Issues – Any specialized content that is relevant to the specific climate and landscape of health equity in the learning health system that may not be captured in any of the other Symposium tracks.
We look forward to welcoming you and engaging with you and these discussions in a meaningful way. If you have any questions, please email healr@iu.edu.