BOSTON – The National Institute for Children’s Health Quality (NICHQ) has begun a two-year initiative to develop an Equity Systems Continuum framework for healthcare systems to address systemic racism and other forms of oppression.
“Our goal is to help organizations identify structural bias in an objective way,” said Senior Project Director Stacy Scott, PhD, MPA. “Is it a savior-designed system, an ally-designed system, or an equity-empowered system?” As NICHQ’s Equity Lead, Dr. Scott will build on the work of the Global Infant Safe Sleep Center (GISS), co-creator of the framework, to detail how the three systems can be further characterized, described, and refined.