IPS Affiliates

IPS Affiliates

IPS Affiliates are Core Faculty, Affiliate Scholars and Strategic Partners who share our commitment to eliminating health inequities as a strategy for fixing our nation’s broken health system. Designed to foster synergies with mission-aligned leaders, the program engages nurse leaders and other experts whose work produces innovative strategies and solutions for ending health inequities.

Core Faculty

Johns Hopkins School of Nursing and broader University faculty whose work focuses on the elimination of health inequities.

Affiliate Scholars

Faculty at other universities and organizations who collaborate with IPS to advance our mission.

Strategic Partners

Leaders from a broad range of sectors—including government, economics, education, housing, and technology—whose work intersects with the social drivers of health.

Health Inequities

Unjust and preventable differences between segments of the population in the quality or outcomes of health care and health policy. Such differences—for nearly all metrics of health care access, health system performance and population health—are long-standing among ethnically and racially minoritized, socioeconomically disadvantaged and otherwise marginalized communities.

IPS defines solutions-oriented approaches to eliminating health inequities as having four components:

Designed with the goal to eliminate specific health inequities, for example, racial or ethnic HIV inequities among men who have sex with men in New York City. The degree to which such specifically targeted goals are attained is much easier to evaluate than more abstract goals to “advance health equity.”
Aims to identify the mechanisms of inequity drivers and leverage points to be targeted by applied interventions; this is in contrast to work that primarily describes inequities.
Oriented toward comprehensive and multilevel intervention approaches designed to eliminate inequity drivers that operate both inside and outside of the clinical healthcare system.
Characterized by a commitment to scaling research to achieve impact beyond just scientific recognition.

Affiliates help advance IPS’s mission by:

Informing evidence-based policy and program development.
Demonstrating through their work the impact of research, programs and policies designed to end health inequities.
Participating in research and training initiatives.
Shaping national conversations through convenings and thought leadership.
Expanding our reach through strategic networks.

Apply to Become an IPS Affiliate

Leaders interested in becoming an IPS Affiliate are invited to complete an application. The program requires Affiliates to maintain active work in areas directly related to solutions-focused research, programs, policies and/or stakeholder engagement focused on eliminating health inequities and aligned with the IPS mission.

Eligibility requirements:

Maintain professional affiliation: current JHU faculty member (Core Faculty), a primary faculty appointment at another university (Affiliate Scholar), and relevant professional certification (Strategic Partners).
Maintain work on themes contributing to the elimination of health inequities.
Collaborate with IPS to demonstrate the impact of evidence-based, solutions-focused work to eliminate health inequities.

Affiliate Benefits:

VIP status at IPS Convenings and other events
Invitation to special training and professional development opportunities
Invitation to stakeholder engagements and advocacy
Eligibility for promotion of work via IPS communications channels
Ability to list IPS affiliation on IPS-related manuscripts and presentations
Organize policy-focused working groups within the Affiliate Program

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