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Sizabantwana Project from KwaZulu Natal, South Africa Receives 8th Annual CCPH Award! The award honors partnerships that are striving to achieve the systems and policy changes needed to overcome the root causes of health, social and economic inequalities. This grass-roots project, developed through a partnership between the University of KwaZulu Natal School of Psychology and twenty primary schools in the Edendale and Imbali township area, builds educator capacity to address psycho-social issues in their school communities. Click here to learn more.

CCPH Co-Authors Article on CBPR in Prestigious Cardiovascular Journal. The article, "Community-Based Participatory Research From the Margin tothe Mainstream: Are Researchers Prepared?" appears in the May 26, 2009 issue of the peer-reviewed journal Circulation.

Seeking Submissions for CES4Health.info! One challenge for community-engaged scholars is the lack of mechanisms for peer review and dissemination of innovative products like documentaries, training manuals, policy briefs and curricula. CES4Health.info is designed to meet that challenge and is in its pilot phase now. For more information, click here.

The latest issue of Partnership Matters newsletter is chock full of timely grant, conference and publication announcements. Click here to check it out.

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Go Global…changing worlds, changing lives

Trevor Goddard is Director of the Go Global program at Curtin University in Western Australia. Go Global is a service initiative supporting community based health care providers in India, China, Ukraine and South Africa. Curtin staff and students work in partnership with host sites building capacity for local staff and enhancing the global citizenry of allied health students. Trevor received a 2006 Australian National Carrick Institute citation for outstanding contributions to student learning...'For enabling an international multi disciplinary health and development learning experience that enhances personal, professional and clinical skills and cultural awareness of health science students'. He believes through programs such as Go Global, universities can connect with international communities and stimulate the citizenship capacity of graduates.

To read more about Trevor's work and the Go Global program, click here. To read about previous Featured Members, click here.

If you would like to be a Featured Member, or would like to refer a colleague, please email CCPH at ccphuw@u.washington.edu.

Join CCPH at these upcoming conferences!

Apply now for CCPH's 12th Summer Service-Learning Institute! A few slots
remain for this intensive training institute taking place July 24-27, 2009 in Leavenworth, Washington.

Register now for July 15 Community Partner Conference Call! Join us from 3:30-5 pm eastern time to learn about setting up and running a community-based participatory research department in a community agency setting. The call is free of charge for those dialing in from Canada and the US. Registration is limited and priority will be given to community-based organizations. To register, click here.

Click here for information on other upcoming events.