Health equity checklist for research

Nipher Malika¹, Stacie Salsbury², Ian Coulter¹, Kieran Cooley^{3

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5}, Margaret Chesney⁶, Marcia Prenguber⁷, Kim Tippens⁸, Michele Maiers^{1

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Affiliations

¹ RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, California, USA.
² Palmer College of Chiropractic - Center for Chiropractic Research Davenport, Iowa, USA.
³ Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
⁴ University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
⁵ Southern Cross University, Lismore, NSW, Australia.
⁶ University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA.
⁷ University of Western States, Portland, Oregon, USA.
⁸ Seattle & King County Public Health, Seattle, WA, USA.
⁹ Northwestern Health Sciences University, Bloomington, Minnesota, USA.

Nipher Malika et al. Ethics Med Public Health. 2025.

. 2025:33:101064.

doi: 10.1016/j.jemep.2025.101064. Epub 2025 Feb 18.

Nipher Malika¹, Stacie Salsbury², Ian Coulter¹, Kieran Cooley^{3

4

5}, Margaret Chesney⁶, Marcia Prenguber⁷, Kim Tippens⁸, Michele Maiers^{1

9}

¹ RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, California, USA.
² Palmer College of Chiropractic - Center for Chiropractic Research Davenport, Iowa, USA.
³ Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
⁴ University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
⁵ Southern Cross University, Lismore, NSW, Australia.
⁶ University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA.
⁷ University of Western States, Portland, Oregon, USA.
⁸ Seattle & King County Public Health, Seattle, WA, USA.
⁹ Northwestern Health Sciences University, Bloomington, Minnesota, USA.

No abstract available

Conflict of interest statement

Conflicts of Interest The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest

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