Global health equity is a phrase at the core of our work, and one that's still being defined. Important conversations are underway across the field about what it means, each highlighting a different facet of the work it asks of us. For us, it includes designing research questions around the priorities of the communities most affected by poor health outcomes. It means measuring success by who benefits and who leads, not only who publishes. And it means recognizing that the forces shaping health shift over time, and that geography and circumstance shape who feels that shift first and hardest.
We believe progress toward equitable health outcomes is possible, that Michigan research has a role to play in driving it, and that the work asks us to think locally and globally at once.
