Welcome to
Systems Alignment Innovation Hub (SAIH)
Decolonize. Indigenize. Organize.
About us
The Systems Alignment Innovation Hub (SAIH) was launched in November 2022 to help medical, social service, and public health providers in racially marginalized and historically disenfranchised communities dismantle health-related research inequities and improve health and well-being for all. SAIH provides research-related community capacity building and support to Black, Brown, and Indigenous-led Community-Based Organizations in developing research and evaluating health equity solutions.
At its core, the SAIH is a community of frontline organizations, grassroots leaders, and system changemakers to drive transformational shifts in how health equity research is conducted, published, governed, stewarded, and applied.
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SAIH operates with the core belief that there are many ways of knowing, doing, and sharing. To amplify diverse ways of knowing and disrupt dominant extractive research methods, SAIH aims to employ, share, and uplift Indigenous, localized, and decolonized approaches to community, health, research, and practice. SAIH believes that long-term solutions only work when there is cultural rigor, buy-in, and systems change. This means braiding cultural, local, and clinical methods with the same rigor and value.
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Building Community Power & Shared Knowledge
SAIH works directly with a broad array of Community-Based Organizations (CBOs) that include public health agencies, professional associations, and advocacy organizations, tribal communities, universities, and governmental partners. We encourage CBOs uniquely positioned to develop new ideas for systems alignment, but could benefit from additional resources and support to plan and implement strong research designs to determine the impact of their innovative research practices. In this way, we can position vital organizations to receive targeted research funding while expanding the evidence base for alignment innovations that improve health outcomes and reduce disparities.
SAIH does this by providing four specific services:​
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