Mapping an emerging national health equity network

Since 2007, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation has invested more than $20 million to support development of health equity collaboration within and across AA and NHPI communities throughout the nation. As a result of this investment – in partnership with the Asian Pacific Islander Health Forum (APIAHF) and Social Policy Research Associates (SPR) – significant learning has already been surfaced focusing on the unique opportunities and challenges of building health equity collaboratives within the AA and NHPI population. In 2013, the Kellogg Foundation commissioned SPR to expand a social network analysis of a closed group of APIAHF-funded grantees, to a broader national network of organizations working to advance the health and well-being of AA and NHPI communities. Through this expanded focus, the hope was to shed light on how this rapidly growing racial group is currently organized to advance health equity, as well as inform opportunities for strengthening this emerging movement of leaders from around the country. (author introduction)