Health Equity Team (2019-2024)
Team Activities
The Health Equity Team (2019-2024) focused on developing and implementing strategies to address inclusion of people living with dementia (PLWD) and their care partners in the design and conduct of embedded pragmatic clinical trials (ePCTs). The team works to improve dementia care while ensuring the IMPACT Collaboratory is a national resource for all Americans affected by dementia.
Team members developed and disseminated guidance and training materials related to high-risk, high-need populations, provided guidance to investigators, and integrated with Core working groups to address the needs of high-risk, high-need populations in Core research activities.
Key Resources
- Best Practice Recommendations for Integrating Health Equity into Pragmatic Clinical Trials for Dementia Care

- IMPACT authors assert that funding early-career researchers is vital to improving dementia care

- Best Practices for Integrating Health Equity into Embedded Pragmatic Clinical Trials for Dementia

Publications
- Model-robust standardization in stepped wedge cluster randomized trials May 11, 2026
- IMPACT Faculty Scholar Study Identifies Preferred Activity Tracker Features for Older Black Adults With Memory Challenges January 31, 2026
- New study explores inequities in testing and infection of COVID-19 variants of concern September 11, 2024
- IMPACT Engaging Partners Team describes the movement away from use of the word stakeholder in new publication September 4, 2024
- Loneliness and global cognitive functioning in racially and ethnically diverse US midlife and older adults June 18, 2024
- New publication on enhancing equity in health research with Indigenous communities May 31, 2024
- Commentary highlights IMPACT framework designed to provide health equity in dementia care May 17, 2024
News
- IMPACT Faculty Scholar Study Identifies Preferred Activity Tracker Features for Older Black Adults With Memory Challenges January 31, 2026
- New study explores inequities in testing and infection of COVID-19 variants of concern September 11, 2024
- IMPACT Engaging Partners Team describes the movement away from use of the word stakeholder in new publication September 4, 2024
- IMPACT members publish two articles on best practices for health equity in pragmatic trials in Ethnicity & Disease special report June 3, 2024
- New publication on enhancing equity in health research with Indigenous communities May 31, 2024
- Commentary highlights IMPACT framework designed to provide health equity in dementia care May 17, 2024
- IMPACT authors explore inequities in Alzheimer’s and dementia care treatment January 24, 2024
Leadership
![]() Ana Quiñones, PhD, MS Core Leader |
![]() María Aranda, PhD, MSW Associate Core Leader |
Team Support
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