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About Us
The Evaluation, Data Integration and Technical Assistance (EDIT) Program at Northwestern is a leader in community-engaged research and evaluation focused on advancing health equity among LGBTQ+ and BIPOC populations. We develop and apply innovative methods to rigorously analyze health disparities, integrating data sources and applying intersectional approaches.
Read More +Our team fosters learning communities to build the capacity of our partners to self-determine and self-actualize their strategies, program frameworks, and quality improvement activities. We believe that a diverse, collaborative community is necessary to respond to the structural factors that affect the health and wellbeing of sexual and gender minority individuals. As such, we rely on the lived expertise of community members and end-clients in combination with scholarly literature to inform our strategies. We believe that the greatest impact is achieved when we learn and work together as researchers, evaluators, policymakers, interventionists, and community members to effectively address the needs of those we serve.
Founded by Dr. Gregory Phillips II and co-led by Dr. Shahin Davoudpour, Mr. Erik Elias Glenn, and Mr. Pedro Alonso Serrano, the EDIT Program is housed at the Institute for Sexual Gender Minority Health & Wellbeing (ISGMH) at Northwestern University.
We strive to advance health equity for sexual and gender minority populations, including racial and ethnic minorities, through community-engaged approaches to research and evaluation.
Our Mission
We are a leader in community-based evaluation focused on improving the health and wellbeing of sexual and gender minority (SGM) individuals. We empower community agencies to strategically plan, implement, and evaluate innovative and culturally responsive programming that serves SGM individuals.
We develop and apply innovative methods to rigorously analyze SGM health disparities using a variety of data sources and applying an intersectional and community engaged approach.
Read More +We focus on advancing health equity and identifying health needs among understudied SGM populations, including bisexual, transgender, asexual, intersex, racial/ethnic minority, adolescent and older adult communities.
We are committed to meaningful involvement of communities in all aspects of our research and evaluation work. We value lived experience as a legitimate form of expertise and means of knowledge.
We share best practices and lessons learned from program evaluation and research studies with policymakers, funders, researchers, and service providers to improve community response to serving sexual and gender minority individuals.
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Partners
- AIDS Foundation Chicago
- Asexual Visibility and Education Network
- Bowman Performance Consulting
- Brave Space Alliance
- Chicago Black Gay Men's Caucus
- Chicago House
- CQL Collaborative
- Howard Brown Health
- InterACT
- Lighthouse Foundation of Chicagoland
- Medical Organization for Latino Advancement
- Puerto Rican Cultural Center
- Sexpectations
- TaskForce Community & Prevention Services
- Universal Family Connections
Partners
- Access Community Health Network
- AIDS Foundation of Chicago
- Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago
- Austin Health Center of Cook County
- Brave Space Alliance
- Brothers Health Collective
- CALOR
- Center on Halsted
- Chicago Black Gay Men’s Caucus
- Chicago Department of Public Health
- Chicago House & Social Service Agency
- Chicago Women’s AIDS Project
- Coalition for Justice and Respect
- Esperanza Health Centers
- Haymarket Center
- Heartland Human Care Services, Inc.
- Howard Brown Health
- Illinois Department of Public Health
- John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County
- Jorge Prieto Health Center
- La Casa Norte
- Making A Daily Effort
- Metropolitan Family Services
- Project Vida
- Provident Hospital
- Puerto Rican Cultural Center
- Ruth M. Rothstein CORE Center
- Universal Family Connection
- University of Chicago’s Center for HIV Elimination
- The University of Chicago Medicine
