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This data dashboard provides a map that details which states are reporting race and ethnicity in their case, mortality, testing, and vaccination data, and includes a state action chart that provides information on how states plan to focus on equity beyond the COVID-19 pandemic.

This blog highlights how states have analyzed and used race and ethnicity data to respond to COVID-19 disparities. The blog also includes a tracker of states’ public reporting of COVID-19 by race and ethnicity.

This blog highlights examples of how states are using data to inform their health equity approaches.

This blog highlights the approaches taken and experiences of state officials in Minnesota and North Carolina in developing COVID-19 immunization data systems, including data challenges, successes, and implications for ensuring an equitable vaccine rollout now and in the future.

The toolkit describes positive and problematic practices for centering racial equity across the six stages of the data life cycle: (1) data collection, (2) data access, (3) use of algorithms and statistical tools, (4) data analysis, and (5) reporting and dissemination.

This webinar series focuses on the Community Information Exchange (CIE) Data Equity Framework, in which the goal is to build data systems to help institutions, and the communities they serve, approach CIE® planning and systems change work from a place of anti-racism. Part one of the series focuses on reviewing the CIE Data Equity Framework and part two focuses on examining the application of the framework across different systems including public health, social, philanthropy, and more.

The Community Information Exchange (CIE) Data Equity Framework’s goal is to build data systems to help institutions, and the communities they serve, approach CIE® planning and systems change work from a place of anti-racism by: (1) naming how data system design reflects understanding of and participation by the intended beneficiaries of current programs and interventions; (2) acknowledging and documenting the effects of a spectrum of data system design types on oppressed populations and communities; (3) identifying strategies needed to eliminate the harm of current processes and practices; (4) highlighting the behavior change needed to rebuild or change the overall data system to better meet community needs across racial and ethnic populations; and (5) adopting practices that promote restorative justice and mitigate harm and exploitation.

The brief summarizes state-level strategies to increase equity in vaccination rates using four primary approaches. The second approach addresses using race and ethnicity data to allocate COVID-19 vaccines according to need. Four strategies are explained under this approach.

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation established a National Commission to Transform Public Health Data Systems to reimagine how data are collected, shared, and used, and to identify the investments needed to improve health equity. Commissioners examined both the systems and the data needed to ensure public health information works for all. The commission offers recommendations for government at all levels — business, community-based organizations, philanthropy, and others — to take specific action to reimagine and modernize the public health data system. A series of white papers describe the current landscape, emerging innovations, and the opportunities for transforming and transitioning to a new public health data system.

In June 2021, a virtual summit with state leaders from 20 states convened to discuss challenges and strategies for collecting, reporting, and using race and ethnicity data to improve health equity during and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic. This issue brief summarizes state strategies and experiences shared during the convening, as well as lessons learned during the COVID-19 pandemic.