UCLA Data Equity Center Technical Assistance
Problem
Government agencies, advocates, and other entities often lack the data and analytical skills to improve health equity.
Historically marginalized groups are often not well-represented in population health data due to their small sizes, how data collection instruments and systems are designed and implemented, and the need to maintain individuals’ privacy. This results in some population groups not being adequately represented in the data organizations use to design and implement health equity initiatives. In addition, those organizations do not always have the necessary knowledge, expertise, or financial resources to improve their data systems. Funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, UCLA’s Data Equity Center created a consortium of technical assistance providers to help organizations nationwide to equitably collect, analyze, report, and disseminate population health data to support health equity.
Solution
NORC is providing resources and technical assistance grounded in evidence-based, equitable, and culturally responsive practices.
The resources and support NORC will provide the UCLA Data Equity Center cover a range of topics including:
qualitative and quantitative design, testing, implementation, and analysis
identifying, using, and linking different data sources
inclusive and equitable research methods
community engagement
culturally responsive and equitable evaluation methods
sampling, weighting, small-area estimation
social media monitoring and analysis
modeling and AI bias
identifying and using public sources of data, e.g., federal, state, and local datasets
analysis, reporting, communication, and dissemination
Result
NORC’s efforts will help organizations nationwide pursue more data-informed health equity efforts.
In the first several months of the project, we have already helped UCLA expand the Data Equity Center’s resource library and begun work on several trainings and workshops related to data analysis, imputation, and weighting, that will improve the data skills and capacity of government agencies, advocates, and other entities.
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Project Leads
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Barbara Fernandez
Associate DirectorProject Director -
David Dutwin
Senior Vice President of Strategic Initiatives -
Alyssa Ghirardelli
Principal Research Scientist -
Alex Hartzman
Director -
Ashani Johnson-Turbes
Vice President -
Diana Serrano
Research Scientist -
Petry S. Ubri
Senior Research Scientist -
Katherine Griffith Vedete
Senior Research Scientist
"NORC is proud to be part of this important effort by the UCLA Data Equity Center to improve health equity by increasing data equity. By sharing our knowledge and expertise around innovative and equitable research methods, analytical tools, and dissemination approaches, we can support organizations nationwide to improve health for all people."
