Module 2-2B – Choosing Outcomes and Endpoints - The Equity Lens (10-min video)

• This module explores how to apply an equity lens when selecting outcomes and endpoints in pragmatic trials. It emphasizes co-defining success with communities, challenging traditional power dynamics, and recognizing how positionality and bias affect research priorities. The video highlights the limitations of administrative data and standard outcome measures, urging researchers to consider cultural relevance, accessibility, and community validation. By embedding Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility (IDEA) principles, researchers can avoid partial truths and generate findings that are both valid and meaningful across diverse populations.

** Content created by Drs. Laura Bowler and Amy Freier (HDRN Canada IDEA Team), with special thanks to the HDRN Canada IDEA Community of Practice. ** 

Chicago Beyond Equity Series: Why Am I Always Being Researched? (PDF) 

• In this publication, we offer 'how' we can begin to level the playing field and reckon with unintended bias when it comes to research. Chicago Beyond created this guidebook to help shift the power dynamic and the way community organizations, researchers, and funders uncover knowledge together. It is an equity-based approach to research that offers one way in which we can restore communities as authors and owners. It is based on the steps and missteps of Chicago Beyond’s own experience funding community organizations and research, and the courageous and patient efforts of our partners, the youth they serve, and others with whom we have learned.

Source: Chicago Beyond, Executive Summary