SEI is excited to partner with Bridges Pointe on the CARE Initiative, a new Pfizer-funded public health project focused on improving outcomes for individuals and families impacted by sickle cell disease across North Carolina.
This collaboration—born out of both companies using the shared workspace at ReCity—brings together two organizations committed to advancing equity through community-driven research. SEI will serve as the evaluation partner, supporting survey design, focus group facilitation, and mixed-methods analysis to ensure findings are both rigorous and culturally responsive.
Using a community-based participatory approach, the CARE Initiative will engage patients and caregivers to identify key challenges, including transportation, stigma, employment, housing instability, and food insecurity. The project will also prepare participants to translate their experiences into policy recommendations through an Advocacy Empowerment Workshop, culminating in engagement with policymakers at North Carolina’s Sickle Cell Awareness & Education Day.
As SEI’s first Pfizer-funded evaluation, this project marks an important step into the public health space while reinforcing a core mission: connecting lived experience to data to drive more equitable systems.
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