Adapting a Health Impact Assessment Tool for Community-Engaged Research to Improve Health Equity Measurements for NIH RADx-UP Pilot Projects.

ABSTRACT: The National Institutes of Health (NIH) supported the Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics-Underserved Populations (RADx-UP) program, which aims to ensure that all Americans have access to COVID-19 testing and promotes health equity, especially in underserved communities. Under RADx-UP, there are two pilot programs - Community Collaboration Grants (C2G) and Rapid Research Pilot Program (RP2) - that fund projects to conduct community-engaged outreach and research to address COVID-19 testing disparities. As such, we sought to assess projects' health equity impacts within their priority populations. Our evaluation team used cognitive interviews with C2G and RP2 project representatives to revise health equity metrics within an existing Health Impact Assessment (HIA) tool to measure health equity

SUBMITTER: Maras SA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12766636 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature