The Meaning of Data Is “to Give”: Health Equity in an Era of Community Engagement

MCMULLIN, Juliet (UCI) The Meaning of Data Is “to Give”: Health  Equity in an Era of Community Engagement. My paper engages  the call for increased inclusion of community in research as  critical to health equity and a question of data - a question of how we give. I consider the application of community engagement and data gathering within the framework of health equity, then turn to the implications of the call to expand the possibilities for  epistemic and institutional change. In an era of everyone and  potentially no one doing health equity, we must ask what health  equity means as a right when its manifestations are always at the  edge of becoming. (TH-91)