Table 7 Factors that could influence participants’ ability to incorporate health equity into their D&I research, as reported by open text

Available time to dedicate more focus to this work. I do have some work in this area

Baseline data collaborators don't find this important enough

Finding a mentor is actually very challenging. I have tried through [blinded], but I think they are perhaps overwhelmed and I know they have extreme challenges with their website. My mentor requests through their website have gone unnoticed, I think, over about 1 1/2 years. Other possibilities would be very welcome!

I am a staff at the mercy of investigators and how they choose to focus their research projects

I don't think we have the TMF, strategies, and measures to really do equity-focused D&I. We're just getting started as a field

I think the field is in its infancy in terms of application of health equity into D&I and as tools are available, I will use them

It is notable to me that many of the commonly cited health equity imp sci or health services/public health papers (as least noted on this webpage) are written by white scientists. I think the lack of representation of POC and Black scholars in imp sci makes me hesitant to get training in interventions for systemic racism from white investigators

None of these—skills, support, and collaborators are all available and this is a crucial topic

Sometimes it is the D&I researchers who resist this approach or exclude equity researchers as not really D&I

Sometimes labels create division- I am not specifically trained in D&I but the work I do is focused in the same way. There is a need to break down jargon

The care system in which one is engaged may not be ready or inclined to provide an infrastructure for this work. The very structural racism one may study operates to supress this very work

The models are a good start. The next step is framing/phrasing research proposals addressing this topic

There is a priority toward big data and large numbers. Equity focused work often happens in one community, one clinic at a time. We need better funding models that honors local partnership and time to appropriately tailor/adapt and implement interventions to address long standing structural factors that contribute to health inequities. Also, those who come to academia with a focus on inequities or CBPR are often socialized away from their prioritize in order to stay employed/funded/advance on the tenured track. "Do CBPR later in your career, it takes too long to get publications."

There is limited consideration of health equity within a lot of D&I research

Whether D&I funders see adapted interventions as “evidence based” — “marginalized” means populations which have been relegated to the margins of generalizability!

While important, this is not a lens I have typically applied