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Overview
Conveners
Planning Committee
Agenda & Handouts
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Overview

The regional community partner forum, "Achieving the Promise of Community-Engaged Health Research" was held March 8, 2012 in New York City. Community engagement in research is central to understanding and addressing racial, ethnic and socioeconomic disparities in health. Research funding agencies are supporting faculty members and institutions to engage communities as partners in conducting research. As more community organizations enter into research partnerships with institutions as well as initiate and conduct research, it is clear that they need their own networks for professional development, mentoring and advocacy in order to advance the social change through knowledge and power sharing that must happen if we are to achieve health equity in this country. Designed “by and for” community organizations involved in health research, the forum examined and addressed the challenges and issues that community partners face and enhanced their knowledge and skills. The forum was attended by nearly 100 experienced and novice community partners involved in collaborations with New York Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSAs) and other institutions. The forum also drew participants from outside of New York, including Arkansas, Massachusetts, South Carolina and Texas.

Forum Goals

To share knowledge, provide mentorship and make recommendations around community review of proposed research, governance structures for research, community engagement in the research process, and funding the community infrastructure needed to conduct research.
To disseminate knowledge shared and generated at the forum through accessible products that participants jointly coauthor.
To establish a NYC network of community partners that facilitates ongoing shared learning, professional development and advocacy.

Forum Guiding Questions

How do we ensure that communities most affected by health disparities have a voice at the tables that decide what research gets conducted, how and by whom?
How do we support communities most affected by health disparities to conduct and manage their own research?
How do we ensure that communities work as equal partners with universities and other institutions to make sure that community research interests are met?
How do we ensure that social justice is central to community-engaged research?
How do we form effective networks for furthering dialogue and action around community knowledge development and equitable community-academic partnerships?

Conveners

Einstein-Montefiore Institute for Clinical and Translational Research

Center for Community Health Education Research and Services (CCHERS)

Community-Campus Partnerships for Health (CCPH)

Harlem Community & Academic Partnership (HCAP)

The Bronx Health Link

Touro College of Pharmacy

WE-ACT for Environmental Justice

The forum was supported in part by a CTSA Community Engagement Supplement Award to the Albert Einstein-Montefiore Institute for Clinical and Translational Research award # 3UL1RR025750-0452.

Planning Committee

Alma Idehen, Einstein-Montefiore Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, Bronx, NY, Forum Planning Committee Chair

Alex Pirie, Coordinator, Immigrant Provider Group/Health, Somerville, MA

Ann-Gel Palermo, Chair, Harlem Community & Academic Partnership, Bronx, NY

Barbara Salcedo, Community Research Associate, Urban Health Plan, Inc., Bronx, NY

Bernice Williams, Member, Bronx Community Research Review Board/The Bronx Health Link, Bronx, NY

Eileen E. Leach, Chief of Staff, Urban Health Plan, Inc., Bronx, NY

Elmer Freeman, Executive Director, Center for Community Health Education Research & Service, Boston, MA

Francisco Martin del Campo, Coordinator, The Bronx Health Link, Bronx, NY

Hal Strelnick, Einstein-Montefiore Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, Bronx, NY

Jacquetta Porter-Jones, Community Advisory Board member, Sea Islands Families Project, NC

Peggy Shepard, Executive Director, WE-ACT for Environmental Justice, NY, NY

Rosalyn McMullin, Member, Bronx Community Research Review Board /The Bronx Health Link, Bronx, NY

Sarena Seifer, Executive Director, Community-Campus Partnerships for Health, Seattle, WA

Agenda & Handouts

Click on the title to open the corresponding document:

Agenda

Photos

Governance of Partnerships and Coalitions - presented by Elmer R. Freeman, Executive Director, Center for Community Health Education Research and Service, Inc., Boston, MA and past CCPH Board Chair

Community Based Participatory Research 101: From a Community Partner Perspective - presented by Ann-Gel S. Palermo, Chair, The Harlem Community & Academic Partnership and CCPH Board Member

Power Dynamics: Funding and Sustainability of Community Partnerships and Program - presented by Francisco Martin del Campo, “Paco”, The Bronx Health Link

For More Information

If you have questions about the forum, please contact Alma Idehen or 718-430-8620.

Click here for the report from the forum, presented in an engaging newsletter-style format.

Click here to join the forum's LinkedIn Group.

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