A Landscape Analysis of Chief Health Equity Officers in California

Funder: California Health Care Foundation
Health Equity Strategies and Solutions is partnering with Physicians for a Healthy California to conduct a landscape analysis of the roles, responsibilities, priorities, and experiences of chief health equity officers across the healthcare delivery system in California. We will use mixed methods (a quantitative survey and structured interviews) to determine the best practices among CHEOs, frameworks for implementation and evaluation, and barriers to achieving health equity in the healthcare delivery system. The results from this project will establish a foundation for future recommendations for institutions and individuals seeking to improve health equity efforts through these roles.
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Prostate cancer patient, healthcare provider, and healthcare system perspectives on equity in the cancer care delivery system in St. Louis

Funder: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Health Equity Strategies and Solutions is partnering with The Empowerment Network and Washington University in St. Louis to create a Learning Community (LC) of Black male prostate cancer (PCa) patients, PCa care providers (primary and specialty), and healthcare system administrators to articulate the characteristics of an equitable cancer care delivery system; and to identifiy tools that eliminate barriers/facilitate to PCa care equity for Black men as they navigate the healthcare/cancer care delivery system. The Learning Community (LC) will identify pathways for dissemination of best practices to facilitate healthcare delivery system change to address structural racism and create equity in prostate cancer (PCa) care in St. Louis and nationally. The ongoing relationship amongst the LC members will strengthen the ability to integrate multiple stakeholder perspectives into current and future initiatives where the needs and voice of Black men can be centered .

*This project was awarded the Ida B. Wells Public Engagement Award at the 2024 Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Science meeting in St. Louis (see award announcement: https://iaphs.org/announcing-our-2024-award-winners/)

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Money-Health Connection

Funder: National Cancer Institute
Research on health disparities has moved from describing disparate health outcomes across socioeconomic categories toward attempts to eliminate such disparities. Yet, it remains unclear exactly what aspects of material conditions are linked to specific health outcomes.

The purpose of the Money-Health Connection study is to develop a trans-disciplinary definition of financial well-being (FWB) and to develop an assessment tool to measure this construct. Money-Health Connection proposes to expand our conceptualization of socioeconomic status beyond the conventional measures of education, occupation, and income to include material, psychosocial, and behavioral aspects of individual socioeconomic circumstances to help elucidate the pathways between socioeconomic circumstances and cancer risk-related behaviors such as physical inactivity and smoking.
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Los Angeles Healthy Aging and Chronic Disease Dashboard

The goal of the dashboard is to summarize data on the quality of life for older adults across Los Angeles County, and to create an accessible and efficient data visualization tool. The dashboard also provides data to support community members in applying for their respective grants and creating innovative programs aimed to improve the lives of older adults in LA County. The data source for the dashboard is the 2015 and 2015 Los Angeles County Health Survey. This dashboard includes 10 key indicators, but clearly, there are many other indicators that contribute to older adult health outcomes.
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