New S4A Grantees The Systems for Action national program office is pleased to announce we awarded $2 million of new research funding to support five individual research projects under the recent 2025 Call for Proposals: Community-Led Systems Research to Address Systemic Racism! Five one-year...

2025 Call for Proposals: Community-Led Systems Research to Address Systemic Racism This funding opportunity is closed and funding decisions have been announced. To learn about the grantees funded under this call for proposals, click here . The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation released its final...

Redemption and Advancement Alliance (RAA) is located in Atlanta, Georgia and works to advance opportunities for people experiencing poverty, mass incarceration, and reentry in ways that promote personal and financial success and social equity. RAA's systems alignment intervention is the “New G...

Lives in Progress Collective is a national collective of leaders with disabilities focused on transforming self-direction and defining what's possible in their lives. Their systems alignment challenge is to enable BIPOC people with disabilities to be visible, essential members of their local...

Acharya, Arnab, et al. “The Role of Public Health Expenditures in COVID-19 Control: Evidence from Local Governments in England.” SSM - Population Health, vol. 15, Sept. 2021, p. 100861, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmph.2021.100861. Detail Resource: Article Related: Grantee Research Project

Alfonso, Y. Natalia, et al. “US Public Health Neglected: Flat Or Declining Spending Left States Ill Equipped To Respond To COVID-19.” Health Affairs, vol. 40, no. 4, Apr. 2021, pp. 664–71. healthaffairs.org (Atypon), https://doi.org/10.1377/hlthaff.2020.01084. Detail Resource: Article Related...

Fabic, Madeleine Short, et al. Deaths among COVID Cases in the United States: Racial and Ethnic Disparities Persist. medRxiv, 17 Nov. 2020, p. 2020.11.15.20232066. medRxiv, https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.11.15.20232066. Detail Resource: Article Related: Grantee Research Project

Building off of the Aligning Delivery and Financing Systems to Prevent Adverse Child Experiences in St. Louis study, Washington University in St. Louis will study the impact of systemic racism on child mental healthcare and mental health equity. African-American families are disproportionately affected by barriers to preventative services leading to worsening socio-emotional, mental health, and physical health outcomes. This is especially true in St. Louis, Missouri, where a profound history of oppression, systemic racism, and mistrust have exacerbated mental health challenges.

Hogg-Graham, Rachel, et al. “Impact of State Medicaid Expansion on Cross-Sector Health and Social Service Networks: Evidence from a Longitudinal Cohort Study.” Health Services Research, vol. 58, no. 3, June 2023, pp. 634–41. PubMed, https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-6773.14144. Details Resource: Article...

Quinlan, Taryn A. G., et al. “Who Delivers Maternal and Child Health Services? The Contributions of Public Health and Other Community Partners.” The Milbank Quarterly, vol. 101, no. 1, Mar. 2023, pp. 179–203. PubMed, https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0009.12600. Detail Resource: Article Related: NALSYS