This morning - before presenting workshops at Catholic Education Tasmania - I attended (online) the Workstream 4 meeting for the World Health Organization Disability Health Equity Network. This meeting was to finalise the workplan and who will work wtihin each domain.
There are four domains of this Workstream 4:
- Awareness
- Data Indicators
- Research and Evidence
- Resource Mobilization
I will be working on the Research and Evidence domain:
Objective 1: Support the dissemination of existing research, evidence, and resources on approaches to monitor and examine disability health equity.
Actions:
- Promote relevant and emerging disability health equity research, including the development of standardized approaches for translating research findings into accessible, plain language materials for public, community, and social media dissemination.
- Support or lead special issues in scientific journals on disability health equity research.
- Develop an editorial or a position paper on the importance of implementation research to improve disability health equity.
- Host events, panels, and discussions on disability health equity research at conferences and research forums.
Objective 2: Advocate for disability-inclusive research that advances health equity for persons with disabilities.
Actions:
- Promote WHO Global Research Agenda on disability health equity.
- Advocate for scientific journals to promote disability inclusive research approaches (e.g., support special issues on disability health equity research, uptake of a checklist on disability inclusive research, inclusion of people with disabilities on editorial boards, reviewers, and research in general).
- Advocate for the inclusion of persons with disabilities as participants in health research.
- Support disability health equity research collaborations between members across the network (e.g. establishing links between research institutions in the global north-south)
