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• Achieving Health Equity: A Guide for Health Care Organizations
  This white paper presents a framework for health care organizations to improve health equity in the communities they serve, guidance for measuring health equity, a case study of one organization that has strategically integrated health equity throughout its system, and a self-assessment tool for organizations to gauge their current focus on and efforts to improve health equity.
• Improving Health Equity: Guidance for Health Care Organizations
  The eight health system teams that participated in the Pursuing Equity initiative share strategies, examples of specific improvements tested, lessons learned, challenges and mitigation strategies, and tools and resources for improving health equity.
• What Is Health Equity, and Why Does It Matter?
  In this short video, health disparities expert David Williams defines health equity and the impact of health disparities on people of color.
• WIHI: How Health Care Organizations Can Create Equity in the Community
  October 29, 2015 | Health and health care improvement communities in the US are focusing on equity and racial disparities in some important new ways.

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• Organizational Trustworthiness in Health Care
  The Institute for Healthcare Improvement partnered with the American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation to identify key organizational-level drivers and change ideas that repair, build, and strengthen trust between health care organizations and clinicians, and between health care organizations and the communities they serve. This report describes a theory of how to repair, build, and strengthen trust, presented as a three-step approach with specific change ideas and associated measures for improvement.
• A Matter of Trust: Commitment to Act for Health Equity
  This article presents high-leverage, specific actions to improve equity in health care that are both possible and feasible for all health care organizations to undertake now.
• Ensuring Equitable Age-Friendly Care
  This article presents six steps to address inequities in the care of older adults, aligned with each step of the journey to becoming an Age-Friendly Health System.
• Equity and Quality: Improving Health Care Delivery Requires Both
  This article describes how the health system can use the existing infrastructure developed to measure, monitor, improve, and incentivize quality to build a more equitable health system by focusing on data, leadership and governance, and payment.
• The Quintuple Aim for Health Care Improvement: A New Imperative to Advance Health Equity
  This article proposes expanding the original Triple Aim (improving population health, enhancing the care experience, reducing costs) beyond the "quadruple aim" (addressing clinician burnout) to a "quintuple aim" that includes advancing health equity.

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• Turn on the Lights Podcast
  Turn on the Lights podcast is IHI's thought-provoking series of candid conversations about how the US health care system is working and not working, hosted by Drs. Don Berwick and Kedar Mate.
• WIHI: Aim High for Equity in the Health Care Workforce
  July 18, 2019 | How can health systems take action to improve workforce equity?
• WIHI: Pursuing Health Equity in North Carolina
  April 19, 2018 | Eight health systems, including one in North Carolina, are working with IHI to elevate health equity to a strategic priority, confront institutional racism, and improve the livelihood and health of their patients, employees, and surrounding communities.
• WIHI: Pursuing Health Equity with Curiosity: Notes from New Initiatives
  August 24, 2017 | You may have data on outcomes disparities in your health system by race, ethnicity, and other factors. But in what ways is health equity a strategic priority in your organization, and what does health equity look like in your community?
• WIHI: How Health Care Can Accelerate Health Equity
  September 15, 2016 | What might be possible if health care organizations across the US made a commitment to work to achieve health equity in their communities in dramatically new ways?

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• Virtual Learning Hour Special Series: Centering Equity in the Response to COVID-19
  May 8, 2020 | COVID-19 is dramatically and disproportionately impacting communities of color in the US. What might it look like to embed equity in the response to the pandemic going forward?
• Re-envisioning Care for People with Involved Disabilities: Benefits and Challenges of Home-Based Primary Care
  Providers and patients explore the importance of expanding primary care beyond the walls of the clinic, particularly when it comes to reaching people with involved disabilities.
• What Is an Age-Friendly Health System?
  The number of older adults, individuals age 65 and older, in the United States is growing rapidly. And as we age, care often becomes more complex. Health systems frequently are not prepared for this complexity, and older adults suffer a disproportionate amount of harm while in the care of the health system.
• Re-envisioning Care for People with Involved Disabilities: Redesigning Primary Care
  Anna, a woman who has become increasingly debilitated and isolated. The failure of the traditional medical system to respond to Anna’s needs is contrasted with a team-based approach in which home-based primary care is combined with an array of critical services that address her medical, social, behavioral, and physical functioning needs.
• Re-envisioning Care for People with Involved Disabilities: Creating Culture Change
  Patients and providers share how the traditional medical model puts the clinician at the center, whereas the needs of a person living with disabilities is better met by an independent living model built around them. We’ll explore how one practice infused the values and principles of independent living into daily practice by embedding them in hiring, orientation, training, and coaching.