Equity Hub

Equity Hub

CapaCITY/É’s overarching goal is to catalyze the implementation of sustainable transportation interventions to support health, mobility, and equity in cities. Our research aims to understand the key implementation factors for scaling up and scaling out these interventions across different jurisdictions to support health, equity, and sustainability goals.

Many population groups have been historically marginalized from access to power, resources, and rights that shape their city, and these inequities persist, in transportation and other domains of city life. Across CapaCITY/É we define equity-deserving populations as communities that face structural challenges towards equitable access and resources when it comes to safe, sustainable, and just transportation.

To ensure sustainable transportation interventions accelerate progress towards equity, implementation science in this realm must have an explicit focus on equity. This requires placing deliberate and sustained emphasis on the cultures, histories, and needs of communities, conducting critical analysis of current systems and structures that perpetuate inequities, along with generating robust data that reflect the experiences and needs of equity-deserving populations.

Our approach 

Beyond a research focus on equity, we see equity as a daily practice within our team. This daily practice centres inclusion, and cultural safety for everyone with CapaCITY/É and for those who work with us both as individuals and as a team. Our Equity Hub, comprising team members with diverse expertise and lived experiences, plays a crucial role in guiding this work and ensuring equity remains at the forefront of our initiatives. The Equity Hub’s approach is structured around three key areas, as depicted in the illustration below: how we work, how we design and conduct research, and what topics we choose to study and how we report them.

For a detailed look at Equity Hub’s activities and achievements over the past year, we invite you to read our ‘One Year Update’  blog post. If you have any questions regarding this work, please get in touch with us via our contact form.

Current Equity Hub members:

  • Meghan Winters
  • Tiffany Muller Myrdahl
  • Kaitlyn Kauffeldt
  • Audrey Giles
  • Sarah Moore
  • Aman Chandi
  • Karen Laberee
  • Ignacio Tiznado Aitken
  • Jacob Alhassan
  • Gillian Seitz