Cross-Cutting Themes to Advance the Science of Minority Health and Health Disparities

• Published in: American journal of public health (1971) Vol. 109; no. S1; pp. S21 - S24
• Main Authors: Jones, Nancy L, Breen, Nancy, Das, Rina, Farhat, Tilda, Palmer, Richard
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States American Public Health Association 01.01.2019
• Subjects: Cross cutting; Etiology; Health disparities; Health education; Health planning; Health research; Healthcare Disparities - ethnology; Humans; Institutes; Intervention; Medical research; Minority & ethnic groups; Minority Health - ethnology; National Institutes of Health (U.S.) - organization & administration; Other Race/Ethnicity; Overview; Public health; Racism; Rural Health; Science; Social Determinants of Health; Strategic planning; Strategies; Systemic racism; United States; United States; United States > US
• ISSN: 0090-0036; 1541-0048
• DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2019.304950

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) engaged in a two-year science visioning process to identify research strategies to ad-dress the gaps and opportunities in the science of minority health and health disparities. The goal of the NIH science visioning process was to help scientists contribute to a common mission: conceptualizing the best science to promote mi-nority health as well as reduce and eliminate health disparities. Thirty research strategies were identified across three pillars guiding the sci-ence visioning: methods and measurement, etiology, and in-terventions (Table 1). The articles in this special issue are arranged according to these three pillars and highlight how these strategies can advance the science of minority health and health disparities. This editorial discusses themes that emerged across the three pillars to provide synergy between methods, etiology, and interventions to ad-vance the science of minority health and health disparities.