Healthy People 2020 defines health equity as "the attainment of the highest level of health for all people. Achieving health equity requires valuing everyone equally with focused and ongoing societal efforts to address avoidable inequalities, historical and contemporary injustices, and the elimination of health and health care disparities.”

The Health Equity Core provides leadership and guidance that will help the NIH Pragmatic Trials Collaboratory, its trials and investigators, and ultimately the research community at-large, be more equitable in research. Their work includes supporting PCTs to address social and structural drivers of inequities, implement patient and community engagement strategies, promote the inclusion and mentorship of historically underrepresented scientists, and develop culturally and contextually aligned research and translation strategies that overcome bias and resonate with patients and communities.

Core goals:

1. Develop guidance for pragmatic trials on how to integrate a health equity lens in PCTs, including considerations for enrollment, strategies for selecting outcomes, and tailored research methods that better suit the study population.
2. Document barriers to the integration of a health equity lens in pragmatic research.
3. Develop strategies and tools to facilitate a health equity lens in pragmatic trials.