Boston Foundation Grant | Knowledge Hub

COVID-19 disproportionately affects communities of color in Massachusetts resulting in higher infection and death rates; this disparity is coupled with an acutely inequitable vaccine rollout. The resulting societal costs include increased economic and housing insecurity, interrupted education, and social isolation. In this context, a collaborative of researchers and policy professionals across institutions and regions, with decades of history working together on equity-centered initiatives, joined forces to create The Collaborative for Latinx Health Equity. The vision is to advance effective solution scenarios by creating a shared platform of knowledge connected to an ecosystem of action-learning decision makers, high impact connectors, and community action actors.

The Collaborative’s Health Equity Knowledge Hub assists in the development of equitable solutions to major equity and health challenges by creating platforms to manage data, analysis, and evidence in order to monitor, measure, and explain equity gaps. This process of translating existing knowledge into clear, actionable recommendations will be accomplished through building a network among multi-sector stakeholders and by sharing and co-creating knowledge and building capacities of community practitioners.