The National Hispanic Health Research Institute (NHHRI) is a national health equity institute dedicated to advancing research, data, and community-driven solutions that improve the health and well-being of Hispanic, Latino, and other historically underserved communities across the United States, including rural communities.

NHHRI is building a national infrastructure for community-driven health research and population health intelligence—connecting trusted community organizations, researchers, academic institutions, health systems, policymakers, and national partners so communities are not simply the subjects of research, but co-creators of knowledge, partners in research, and informed users of their data.

Our work bridges the gaps between research, data, policy, and lived experience by combining community knowledge with rigorous research methods, culturally responsive approaches, and population health data.

Our work includes:

• Building a national collaborative of trusted, culturally rooted organizations and institutions serving Hispanic, Latino, rural, and other historically underserved communities.

• Advancing community-centered population health data through the National Population Health Data Platform, helping communities access, interpret, govern, and use data to define priorities and inform decisions.

• Connecting communities and researchers through a national learning and research network that strengthens partnerships, shares knowledge, and accelerates evidence-based solutions.

• Co-designing research with communities, ensuring research questions, methodologies, and protocols reflect community priorities, cultural context, lived experience, and shared governance.

• Strengthening research capacity through training, mentorship, technical assistance, and education in research methods, evaluation, data literacy, culturally responsive ethics, grant development, and research administration.

• Translating evidence into action by connecting research and community knowledge to programs, practice, policy, and systems change at local, state, and national levels.

• Convening national learning opportunities through conferences, institutes, workshops, and collaborative forums focused on health equity and community-engaged research.

Ultimately, NHHRI seeks to help redefine who produces health knowledge, who controls health data, whose experience informs research, and how evidence is translated into action.

Our vision is a national research and population health ecosystem in which communities have the voice, data, partnerships, resources, and research capacity to shape their own health outcomes—and the policies and systems that affect them.