Health Equity & Common Measures Task Force
The Health Equity & Common Measures Task Force is focused on developing and providing recommendations on centering equity in our research goals. This team is also tasked with providing recommendations to study teams on core measures to be collected across projects to facilitate subsequent comparison of results across studies and potential pooling of data.
John Lumpkin
Hilary Seligman
Kevin Volpp
Mitchell Elkind
Rachel Fisher
Gerald E. Johnson II
Joneigh S. Khaldun
Amy Lazarus Yaroch
Erin McDonald
Neil M. Meltzer
Eduardo Sanchez
Jingsan Zhu
Paul Chase
Common Measures for AHA Health Care by Food Funded Studies
Central to the American Heart Association's Health Care by Food initiative is the integration of evidence-based practices and measurable outcomes. To track progress and impact, the initiative developed a set of Common Measures, a standardized set of metrics designed to facilitate the comparison of data across food is medicine research.
Shared metrics are vital for pooling data across studies, to produce more generalizable insights and to allow for more comparability between studies, moving us toward a better understanding of the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of interventions.
To improve fidelity for merging data sets and facilitating use of the common measures, an accompanying code book (XLSX file) was designed and is available for use.