Rethinking, Reimagining, and Reigniting Community-Engaged Research to Promote Cardiovascular Health Equity

ardiovascular disease (CVD) remains the leading cause of death in the United States. Social determinants of health; the context in which people are born, live, learn, work, play, worship, age; and structural factors are regarded as the root causes of CVD disparities seen in these groups. Although there is a growing body of research identifying interventions that effectively address these longstanding racial/ethnic and socioeconomic disparities in CVD, many questions remain, and much of what we know is still not being used to change practice and policy. A growing body of knowledge also supports the notion that community-engaged research is a promising approach to promote cardiovascular health equity.