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Monthly E-News. To subscribe, click here! Online registration is open for CCPH's 15th Anniversary Conference, April 18-21, 2012 in Houston. Don't delay! Early-bird discounted rates end on Feb 3.
Community Partners from Across the Country Convene for National Forum on Community-Engaged Health Disparities Research!
The forum, held Dec 6-7, 2011 in Boston, was designed “by and for”
leaders of community-based organizations who are deeply committed to
research as a tool for health equity and social justice. Click here to learn more about the forum and subsequent work now underway.
To read past news, please click here.
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Featured Member: Marlynn May is
the Wimberley Scholar in Residence at St. Luke's Episcopal Health
Charities in Houston, TX. Since moving to Texas thirteen years
ago, Marlynn has been collaborating with underserved residents and
communities on the Texas-Mexico border doing community health
development, teaching and advising budding public health professionals
and working in a community-based organization devoted to eliminating
health disparities through grant making, research and education.
To learn more about Marlynn and his work, 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
us.
Featured Resource: Launched in Nov 2009, CES4Health.info has peer-reviewed and published over 30 diverse products of community-engaged scholarship including this one: What's the Big Deal? Reader's Theatre to Inform, Inspire, and Ignite Action
is a script developed with and for Alaska Native and American Indian
Community Health Workers (CHWs) and the people in their communities to
provide colorectal cancer screening information, increase comfort with
talking about screening, and encourage people to have recommended
screenings. Stories from survivors, their families and care givers,
medical providers and CHWs are woven into the lives of six characters
who use humor and story to talk about common questions, concerns, and
feelings related to colorectal cancer screening. Co-developed by
the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium and the University of
Kentucky.
Follow the latest CES4Health.info news & products on twitter!
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Plan Now to Attend
CCPH 15th Anniversary Conference,
April 18-21, 2012 in Houston, TX! Mark your calendars now and plan to
join us for 4 days of skill-building, networking and agenda-setting!
Our major conference partner is St. Luke's Episcopal Health Charities,
the area's largest charity focused solely on health and well-being and
also celebrating its 15th anniversary. Click here for details.
Save the Date for CU Expo 2013! CCPH is again delighted to support this Canadian-led conference
showcasing community-university partnerships worldwide. Plan to
join us June 12-15, 2013 in Corner Brook, Newfoundland!
Click here for information on other upcoming
events.
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