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Aug. 30, 2024

Dr. Whitney Irie describes the Ikigai (purpose and joy) in IS and health equity research.

Dr. Whitney Irie describes the Ikigai (purpose and joy) in IS and health equity research.

Pull up a chair and grab some tea as Dr. Whitney Irie and I engage an intimate conversation on the soulful resonance in the pursuit of health justice proxied by implementation science and research. The discussion is grounded in a very personal connection to the work of health equity and implementation science, calling up on the "use of self" that empowers study and discourse in health justice and implementation. Dr. Irie offers hearty analyses of positionality that emerge into defining scholarship with Black women and health systems in the promotion and dignity of sexual and reproductive choices for Black women. Dr. Irie leads the discussion into a reflection on the criticality that implementation science requires and concrete examples of those analyses in her work.