our projects
we use equity science to:
mobilize community as intervention
equip data and evaluation systems to advance justice
harness equity-oriented governance models and processes; and
create real-world pathways towards systems that work for all of us
our community-based projects and research directions are grounded in a shared goal to critically interrogate the ways in which power, authority, resources, and opportunities are distributed, from global to local levels
CLARITY
CLARITY stands for Community-Led Action for Resiliency Important Throughout Youth. This project is a local initiative building community resilience to prevent youth suicide in the Central Okanagan.
Mothering Co-Lab
The Mothering Co/Lab is applying the BC Human Rights Commissioners’ framework: Disaggregated Demographic Data Collection in British Columbia: The Grandmother Perspective to the contexts of perinatal substance use monitoring, surveillance, and reporting.
Operationalizing Equity in Global Health Research
Funding policies are important sites for implementation of equity-centred principles and strategies because they set norms, directions, and priorities for research and serve as a primary incentive for researchers. The OPEN GHR project examines how actors working across Canada’s global health research (GHR) ecosystem understand and operationalize their commitments to equity.
The Bridge Research Consortium
The Bridge Research Consortium (BRC) is a national collaboration of scholars designed to increase knowledge of and strategies to address challenges related to vaccination mis/disinformation, public trust, and equitable access.
Solidarity for Vaccine Equity (SOLVE)
Over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, global inequities in access to COVID-19 related medicines, supplies, and equipment were decried as catastrophic outcomes of failed global governance. This policy analysis and dialogue-based research explores the ethics of obligations to others on issues of collective global health, using vaccine nationalism as a window to understanding global governance and equity.