Health Equity: A Snapshot of a PolicyLab Research Portfolio
Child health outcomes are often determined by factors outside of the health care system. At PolicyLab, our vision for health equity is that all children have the opportunity to achieve the best possible health outcomes, regardless of their race, ethnicity, preferred language, socioeconomic status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, and any other factors that can impact their health.
Our team of social, behavioral, and physician scientists aims to better understand factors that contribute to disparate health outcomes and develop and evaluate solutions that promote child health equity.
While health equity is the focus of this research portfolio, it is also a driving tenet of all PolicyLab research. By applying an equity lens to all of our work, we aim to evaluate programs, practices and policies to ensure that they ideally mitigate, and at minimum, do not exacerbate inequities in health outcomes for children and families.