Abstract
<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>Alonzo L. Plough, vice president, Research-Evaluation-Learning at RWJF, and Thomas A. LaVeist, dean of Tulane University Celia Scott Weatherhead School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, explore going beyond academic convention so that health equity has a more prominent place in research agendas. Gail Christopher, DN, executive director of the National Collaborative for Health Equity, describes the Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation™ (TRHT™) framework. Kristefer Stojanovski, research assistant professor at Tulane, describes using complex systems theory to investigate HIV risk and how to think in systems. Community-based system dynamics centers the work of Irene Headen, assistant professor of Black health at Drexel Dornsife School of Public Health, who explores the connections between neighborhood factors and Black maternal health. Dr. LaVeist describes Partners for Advancing Health Equity (P4HE), a program designed “to spark discussion, share learning, foster collaboration, and facilitate resource exchange for the promotion of action-oriented health equity research, practice, and policies.”</jats:p>