Dutta MPokaia VMetuamate SMandal IBaskey PMandi RElers PRahman MJayan PPattanaik S2025-05-022025-05-022025-04-04Dutta M, Pokaia V, Metuamate S, Mandal I, Baskey P, Mandi R, Elers P, Rahman M, Jayan P, Pattanaik S. (2025). Center for Culture-Centered Approach to Research and Evaluation (CARE): organizing to transform the social determinants of health. Journal of Applied Communication Research. 53. 1. (pp. 54-61).0090-9882https://mro.massey.ac.nz/handle/10179/72841This essay outlines the organizing work of the Center for Culture-Centred Approach to Research and Evaluation (CARE) in mobilizing for social justice. Conceptualizing health in relationship to justice, the academic-activist-community partnerships built by CARE explore the organizing processes through which communities at the margins own voice infrastructures in seeking structural transformation.(c) 2025 The Author/sCC BY-NC-ND 4.0https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Culture-centred approachcommunication justicehealth disparitiesstructural transformationdecolonizationanticolonialismJournal article10.1080/00909882.2025.24678581479-5752journal-article54-61