Multicultural Health Equity Collective
Established in 2014, The Pfizer Multicultural Health Equity Collective (The Collective) is a cooperative of Pfizer colleagues and 40+ nonprofit partners and advocates across the United States who are working together to improve the health of historically marginalized and underserved communities by addressing drivers of inequitable health outcomes, including systemic racism.
Ten years ago, The Collective was created to address significant health disparities and demonstrate behaviors that earn trust. Since then, The Collective has supported hundreds of partner events—reaching 1.5M people across the U.S.—and established its own signature Health Equity in Action Summit and Communities in Action for Health Equity grant program. Through relationships with multicultural organizations working to disrupt systemic drivers of health inequity, The Collective seeks to create sustained impact now, and far into the future.
Read More About The Collective DetailsPfizer Multicultural Advisory Council
The Collective’s work is guided by the Pfizer Multicultural Advisory Council (PMAC). The PMAC includes leaders from partner organizations who help inform The Collective’s priorities, engage with Pfizer on vital health and policy issues, and provide counsel on specific Pfizer initiatives.
Our Focus Areas
To improve health outcomes and make lasting progress toward health equity, it is critical that historically marginalized and underserved communities—and those chosen to represent them—lead the creation of solutions. The Collective works alongside partners who have deep understanding of the evolving community needs and aims to disrupt the drivers of healthcare inequities by focusing on four key impact areas:
HEALTHCARE FACILITIES & DELIVERY
Helping to build community-centered healthcare delivery systems.
RESEARCH & DATA
Addressing racial biases embedded into algorithms and promoting data disaggregation to gain greater insight into the health needs of underrepresented populations.
WORKFORCE PATHWAYS
Fostering young talent and early education systems to create a pipeline for a more diverse and representative health workforce.
POLICY
Advancing local, state, county and federal policies addressing systemic racism in healthcare.
Explore how The Collective is partnering to advance health equity.
The Collective has partnered with a working group of more than 30 individuals to co-author ‘An Action Guide to Disrupt Inequitable Health Outcomes’ highlighting actionable solutions to disrupt drivers of health inequities across four key areas – Healthcare Facilities & Delivery, Research & Data, Workforce Pathways, and Policy.
(Photo Credit: Stillman College)
In 2025, The Collective’s Communities Forward grant program awarded seven nonprofit organizations a total of $1.75 million to support community-centered projects that address preventable health disparities in historically marginalized and underserved populations.
Building on the 2024 Communities in Action for Health Equity grants program launched by The Collective and Pfizer’s Institute of Translational Equitable Medicine (ITEM), the awarded projects are focusing on community-led solutions across healthcare facilities and delivery, research and data, workforce pathways, and policy.
(Photo Credit: 100 Black Men of America)
Since 2014, The Collective partners have hosted 600+ community health engagement and outreach events, reaching 1.5 million people across the United States.
In 2020, The Collective partners helped inform and conduct community engagement in support of COVID-19 clinical trial diversity. Their participation helped to build trust and raise awareness among historically underrepresented communities in clinical trials through the development of culturally relevant education materials and grassroot efforts, which have also informed ongoing clinical trial diversity efforts.
Read more about this collaboration in The Collective Equity in Action: The Impact of Community Engagement on Diversity in a COVID-19 Clinical Trial White Paper.
In 2024, The Collective co-convened its second Health Equity in Action Summit alongside Morehouse School of Medicine, National Association of County and City Health Officials, the National Caucus of Native American State Legislators, and The Century Foundation. The two-day, hybrid event held in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, brought together cross-sector health equity leaders to discuss community-led, sustainable solutions to help advance health equity, including a day focused on supporting rising leaders in healthcare to explore careers in healthcare and connect with mentors.
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