Implementation research for health equity

Program overview:

Health and well-being are intrinsically impacted by socio-determinants related to carers, family, community, and service delivery across health and other sectors, within local country context. Socio-determinants are complex and can include dispossession, institutional racism, drug and alcohol, and debt, resulting in a lack of access to culturally safe services and intergenerational mistrust of services. However, sustainably integrating services within health and other sectors is challenging due to patient, organisational and policy and historical barriers.
Our program aims to strengthen health systems resilience using interdisciplinary implementation research across different contexts, cultures and sectors, to holistically address socio-determinants of health so as to improve health equity.

Program Objectives: 

1. Examine and implement best practices in community engagement, partnerships and capacity-strengthening. 
2. Embed WHO integrated people-centred health services framework and strategies into our research, practice and policy.
3. Using theory-driven evaluations to investigate and address individual, system, and policy factors for equitable and sustainable outcomes of intersectoral programs.

Expected Outcomes: 

1. Capacity strengthening through participatory action research
2. Comprehensive approach for co-developing, implementing and sustaining health equity programs with end-users. 3. Implementation strategies for scaling up health equity programs.