CAPACITY BUILDING

Health Equity Research Workshop: Developing Research to Address
Inequities in Health and Health Care

16 January 2025 | Author: Sophia Galasi

The St. Luke’s Medical Center Health Equity and Research Foundation, in partnership with the Department of Clinical Epidemiology of the University of the Philippines College of Medicine, held the “Health Equity Research Workshop: Developing research to address inequities in health and healthcare” last January 16, 2025. 

The goal was to inspire curiosity and passion in health equity and health equity research among researchers, educators, and health professionals, and to nurture their talents in handling research of such nature.

AGENDA

Esteemed lecturers introduced concepts of health equity and discussed the types of health equity research and appropriate study designs, methodologic and analytic issues, and guiding principles in conducting health equity research. In an engaging small group discussion, the participants applied their learnings by formulating and classifying research questions for a given scenario, designing mitigation studies, establishing stakeholder engagement, and determining how the research might address health inequities.

PARTICIPANTS

The SLMC HERE Foundation wanted to disseminate this knowledge to a wider audience, and the support of Action for Economic Reforms made it possible. With financial assistance from the AER, eleven attendees from several provinces across the country were able to join the workshop, unburdened by the expenses of travel and accommodation. There were twenty-six participants in total.

Participant feedback was largely positive, with many expressing interest in a longer workshop that delves deeper into the material.

LOOKING AHEAD

The SLMC HERE Foundation and the UP-DCE certainly are hopeful that this workshop is only the beginning, with talks of future iterations of the workshop or potential course development underway.

Posted 27 January 2025