Data Collection, Use, and Reporting for Health Equity

This is the first phase of a two-phase project that seeks to provide an overview of current methods of data collection on race and ethnicity and identify opportunities for improving them. In the first phase, the team will conduct a scan of academic and grey literatures and conduct key informant interviews with eight to 12 health plans to identify current methods of data collection. The purpose of this research is to understand the barriers and facilitators of optimal research and evaluation (R/E) data collections among health plans. Findings from this first phase will be summarized into an evidence report, which will support the second phase of this project, designed to test promising approaches and provide quantitative evidence about best practices for R/E data collection.