From Insight to Action: Health Equity Research that Meets This Moment
Forecasted
From Insight to Action: Health Equity Research that Meets This Moment supports community-research partnerships to produce actionable evidence for policy and systems change that advances health equity.
Funder: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Due Dates (Anticipated): May 2027 (Letter of Intent) | July 2027 (Full proposal)
Funding Amounts: Up to $500,000 per project for up to 36 months; up to $8 million total
Summary: Supports community-rooted, action-oriented research that advances health equity through structural and systems change.
Key Information: Applicants need an established community partnership of at least two years and a community-based co-principal investigator.
Description
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) supports research grounded in community experience that responds to immediate and long-term health equity needs. This call is part of the developing Health Equity Research for Action (HERA) program, administered by national coordinating centers at Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science, Michigan State University College of Human Medicine, and Morehouse School of Medicine.
The program seeks research that identifies root causes of structural discrimination, challenges harmful narratives, and disrupts misinformation and disinformation. Projects must generate actionable evidence for policy, institutional practice, or systems-level change, rather than primarily documenting disparities. HERA welcomes quantitative, qualitative, Indigenous, narrative, community-generated, and practice-based evidence. Its goals include maintaining access to evidence, supporting accountability, and building a more accessible, trusted, and equitable Health Science Knowledge System.
