PROGRAMS

TACKLING HEALTH INEQUITIES THROUGH RESEARCH & SOCIAL ACTION

Immigration trends tell us that, by 2050, Hispanics/Latinos are estimated to be the second largest population in US, rising to 29%. Today, about 18% of Latinos currently make up the US population. Yet, Latinos are widely underrepresented in STEM, are disproportionally impacted by health disparities, and face significant access barriers that impede health prosperity.

The COVID-19 pandemic shed light on facts that minority practitioner and communities face daily. Their health inequities are disproportionally exacerbated by systemic barriers. Since then, institutions shifted to hire a more diverse workforce and create equitable systems. However, there is significant room to do more.

The Research and Social Action Center (formerly LXB Advocacy Center) executes our mission of addressing health equity related issues through research, education and community engagement. Our goal is to co-create with communities, by creating educational pipelines, applied ethics research and formulating equitable action plans that inform social change in public health and social practices.

#WEAREPROSPERA

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EMERGING LEADERS

Research shows that 17.5% of professionals in STEM-related disciplines are Latino, Black and Indigenous. It remains to be explored how many are ethicists. We know, from experience, that Emerging Leaders need social and financial infrastructures that support career mobility.

Prospera's Emerging Leaders Scholarship Fund was created to support undergraduate and graduate minorities in STEM-related disciplines pursuing ethics degrees. Our goal is to develop educational pipelines for Latino, Black and Indigenous Emerging scholars, researchers and artists interested in ethics.

AREYTOS CAFE

EMERGING LEADERS

During times when Arawak Tainos and Yoruba communities lacked written language, storytelling “Areytos” , a sociopolitical practice, shaped our moral societies and health.

Areytos cafe is cultural hub that leans on expressive arts and community building practices that serve as catalyst for education, research and social action.

LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Prospera Institute, Boston, humbly acknowledges that the places where we eat, sleep, pray and work sits within the traditional, ancestral and stolen land of the Massachusetts Ponkapoag /ˈpɒŋkəpɔːɡ, tribe whose name was appropriated by this Commonwealth. We continue to survive honoring the elders through cultural practices; expressive arts ie.“areytos”/storytelling, prayer, reflection thus resisting systemic oppression and reclaiming liberation in public health and social practices.

RESEARCH & SOCIAL ACTION CENTER

TACKLING HEALTH INEQUITIES THROUGH RESEARCH & SOCIAL ACTION

#WEAREPROSPERA

STARTUP PROGRAMS

EMERGING LEADERS

EMERGING LEADERS

EMERGING LEADERS

AREYTOS CAFE

EMERGING LEADERS

EMERGING LEADERS

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