Learning objectives for all team members include:

• Increase expertise in interdisciplinary research.
• Engage in team leadership for the promotion of health equity.
• Understand how to use leadership and network skills to drive change in academic and community settings.
• Improve the facilitation of compelling, action-oriented research that improves health and advances health equity goals in all manner of communities.
• Increase understanding of how structural racism and other “isms” constrain health and opportunity, in both the historical and contemporary contexts.
• Determine how to apply anti-racist practices into research and leadership.
• Enhance skills to ensure that ethical research and community standards are equal priorities.
• Build skills for the dissemination of research findings to improve community health.
• Understand the process to effectively communicate health research evidence to inform policy and change.

Additional learning objectives for community partners include:

• Develop skills for partnering with researchers to answer critical community-oriented questions.
• Develop skills to lead, guide, and utilize research for action and improvement in community health.

Additional learning objectives for research partners include:

• Develop skills and understanding to create equitable partnerships with community members and leaders.
• Develop skills to create research that is responsive to community concerns.