{"id":1173,"date":"2018-02-02T15:42:45","date_gmt":"2018-02-02T15:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/facultyhighlights\/?p=1173"},"modified":"2018-02-02T15:43:43","modified_gmt":"2018-02-02T15:43:43","slug":"trinity-college-assistant-professor-of-political-science-and-public-policy-law-abigail-fisher-williamson-is-part-of-team-awarded-robert-wood-johnson-foundation-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/facultyhighlights\/2018\/02\/02\/trinity-college-assistant-professor-of-political-science-and-public-policy-law-abigail-fisher-williamson-is-part-of-team-awarded-robert-wood-johnson-foundation-grant\/","title":{"rendered":"Trinity College Assistant Professor of Political Science and Public Policy & Law Abigail Fisher Williamson is Part of Team Awarded Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Grant"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u200bHartford, Connecticut, November 20, 2017\u2014Trinity College Assistant Professor of Political Science and Public Policy & Law\u00a0Abigail Fisher Williamson<\/a>\u00a0is a co-investigator on a research study that has been awarded a $699,960 grant from the\u00a0Robert Wood Johnson Foundation<\/a>. The AmeRicans\u2019 Conceptions of Health Equity Study (ARCHES) will examine how Americans of diverse socioeconomic, professional, and racial\/ethnic backgrounds think about equity and deservingness in the health domain. Sarah S. Willen, an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Connecticut, is the principal investigator. Williamson and Colleen Walsh, an assistant professor of health sciences at Cleveland State University in Cleveland, Ohio, are co-investigators.<\/p>\n

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Trinity College Assistant Professor of Political Science and Public Policy and Law Abigail Fisher Williamson. \u200bPhoto by Antonio Rocha Portraits<\/p><\/div>\n

The grant will support a two-phase study that launched in October and will run until October 2019. The researchers plan to investigate how Americans think about a question that plays a \u201cpivotal but largely implicit role in American public discourse about society\u2019s obligations to its members\u201d \u2013 the question of \u201cwho deserves what in the health domain, and why.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cPublic health professionals often assert that \u2018everyone deserves to live a healthy life,\u2019 but we don\u2019t know whether most Americans actually agree with that statement,\u201d Williamson said. \u201cHealthcare reform has been divisive in recent years, and unexamined attitudes about who is and is not seen as deserving could have something to do with that.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the first study phase, the research team will engage residents of Ohio\u2019s Greater Cleveland area using interviews and ethnographic methods. A key partner in the study\u2019s first phase is\u00a0HIP-Cuyahoga<\/a>\u00a0(Health Improvement Partnership-Cuyahoga), a county-wide health equity initiative in Greater Cleveland. In the second phase, Williamson will lead the team in testing findings from Cleveland through a national survey.<\/p>\n

The study will also draw on the expertise of researchers at Brown University, Case Western Reserve University School of Law, Cleveland State University, Syracuse University, the University of South Florida, and the Sisters of Charity Foundation.<\/p>\n

Williamson sees a clear connection between this research project and her teaching at Trinity. \u201cThere is growing student interest in healthcare policy, and I hope to bring what I learn back to the classroom,\u201d she explained. Williamson said that Trinity students will also gain valuable experience as student research assistants as they learn to transcribe interviews and compile literature reviews for this project.<\/p>\n

In addition to ARCHES, in 2015, Williamson began work on a study called \u201cThe U.S. Municipal Responses to Immigrants Survey,\u201d supported by The Pew Charitable Trusts. The nationwide survey and analysis of findings gathered information from 1,000 towns about their formal and informal interactions with immigrants. To read more about that survey, click\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Written by Kyle M. McGrath \u201918<\/em><\/p>\n

About the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation<\/strong><\/p>\n

For more than 40 years the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has worked to improve health and health care. We are working with others to build a national Culture of Health enabling everyone in America to live longer, healthier lives. For more information, visit\u00a0www.rwjf.org.<\/a>\u00a0Follow the Foundation on Twitter at\u00a0www.rwjf.org\/twitter<\/a>\u00a0or on Facebook at\u00a0www.rwjf.org\/facebook<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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