JUST Health believes research is a pathway to understanding complex health challenges, informing practice, and creating healthier communities. We generate actionable evidence through rigorous research, collaborative partnerships, and innovative approaches that translate knowledge into meaningful change. Our work is guided by the belief that research should not only describe health challenges but also contribute to solutions that improve outcomes, strengthen systems, and support communities.
Our Mission
JUST Health advances health and well-being through rigorous, community-engaged research that identifies challenges, evaluates solutions, and supports meaningful change. We partner with communities and organizations to generate evidence that informs practice, strengthens programs, and promotes healthier futures.
Our Commitment
JUST Health is committed to collaborative approaches that center community perspectives, value diverse forms of knowledge, and ensure our work reflects the lived experiences of communities most affected by the challenges we study.
The JUST Health Approach
We engage communities as partners in knowledge generation, value diverse perspectives, and collaborate to ensure research reflects the lived experiences of communities and addresses meaningful health challenges.
We use rigorous quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-methods approaches to better understand complex health and social challenges.
We transform data into actionable knowledge that helps organizations, communities, and decision-makers identify what works and why.
We move research beyond publications by supporting program development, evaluation, implementation, and sustainable change.
We recognize that health is shaped by historical and current social, environmental, and structural conditions. For JUST Health, justice means producing better evidence, with communities, in ways that improve health.
“Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.” - Benjamin Franklin