PARTNERSHIP MATTERS

Member Newsletter of Community-Campus Partnerships for Health

 

Promoting health through partnerships between communities and higher educational institutions

 

 

February 17, 2006

Volume VIII Issue 4

 

 

Message From Our Executive Director

 

News From CCPH

 

Membership Matters

 

Upcoming Events

 

2006 Conference Update

 

Announcements

 

Employment Opportunities

 

Grants Alert!

 

Awards, Fellowships & Scholarships

 

Calls for Papers & Presentations

 

Publications

 

New & Renewing Members

 

Archives

 

 

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12 SCHOOLS AND GRADUATE PROGRAMS OF PUBLIC HEALTH SELECTED FOR ENGAGED INSTITUTIONS INITIATIVE

FOCUSED ON ELIMINATING HEALTH DISPARITIES

 

Despite major advances in health care and health status in the 21st century, disparities persist between whites and people of color – creating one of the most pressing social justice issues facing America today.  Not only are most racial and ethnic groups less healthy, but they also tend to have shorter life expectancies, higher rates of infant mortality and chronic diseases, worse outcomes once diagnosed with illnesses, and less access to health care than their white counterparts. Racial and ethnic health disparities persist even when socio-economic status and insurance coverage are taken into account, due to a complex combination of factors.   Eliminating these disparities will require collaborative solutions that bring communities and institutions together as partners and build upon the assets, strengths, and capacities of each.  Schools and graduate programs of public health – with their roles in educating public health professionals, conducting public health research and applying knowledge to solve public health problems – have a unique and important role to play.   Community-Campus Partnerships for Health is pleased to announce today that 12 schools and graduate programs of public health are taking on the challenge of becoming engaged institutions focused on eliminating racial and ethnic health disparities as participants in the Engaged Institutions Initiative funded by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. 

 

One year ago, a seminar sponsored by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation to celebrate its 75th anniversary called upon schools and graduate programs of public health to spearhead efforts to transform all colleges and universities into engaged institutions that are working to eliminate racial and ethnic health disparities.  The Foundation defines engaged institutions as “institutions that invest in lasting relationships with communities…these relationships influence, shape, and promote the success of both the institution and the community.”  In supporting the Engaged Institutions Initiative, the Foundation seeks to catalyze sustained efforts by schools and graduate programs of public health to eliminate racial and ethnic health disparities in partnership with communities. 

 

Community-Campus Partnerships for Health will work collaboratively and intensively with teams from 12 schools and graduate programs of public health as they develop and implement strategic action plans to become fully engaged institutions focused on eliminating racial and ethnic health disparities.  Team members include academic administrators, faculty, staff, students and community partners who have made a commitment to collective action.  Selected from among 26 applicants, they provided evidence of commitment and participation from institutional and community leaders, made a clear and compelling case for their readiness to invest in authentic community-campus partnerships, and demonstrated the ability to engage other parts of their campuses in the effort.  Consultation will be provided by members of the CCPH Consultancy Network, the organization’s training and technical assistance arm.  The initiative will also sponsor teleconferences, identify promising practices and produce resource materials.  

 

For more information, please contact CCPH Executive Director Sarena Seifer at sarena@u.washington.edu or 206-616-4305.   Initiative announcements and updates will be posted on the CCPH website at www.ccph.info

 

To receive e-mail announcements and updates on the initiative – along with other resources to support engaged institutions that are focused on eliminating racial and ethnic health disparities – subscribe to the free Kellogg 75th Anniversary listserv at https://mailman1.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/kellogg75

 

Participating Schools and Graduate Programs of Public Health:

 

In alphabetical order by state:

 

§       Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

§       Fay W. Boozman College of Public Health, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR

§       Master of Public Health Program in Community Health Education, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA

§       University of South Florida College of Public Health, Tampa, FL

§       Master of Public Health Program, John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI

§       Morgan State University School of Public Health and Policy, Baltimore, MD

§       Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA

§       Master of Public Health Program, University of Nebraska Medical Center and University of Nebraska at Omaha, NE

§       University of North Carolina School of Public Health, Chapel Hill, NC

§       Oregon Master of Public Health Program, a consortium among Portland State University in Portland, Oregon Health and Science University in Portland and Oregon State University in Corvallis, OR

§       Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC

§       Master of Public Health Program and Center on Health Disparities, School of Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA

 

 

Articles and Documents Needed for a Systematic Review

of the Effectiveness of Community-Based Primary Health Care

in Improving Child Health


The Working Group on Community-Based Primary Health Care (CBPHC) of the International Health Section of the American Public Health Association is now beginning a systematic review of the evidence supporting the effectiveness of community-based primary health care in improving the health of children in developing countries. The Department of Child and Adolescent Health and Development of the World Health Organization is supporting this effort.

They are looking for published articles as well as unpublished articles and project documents which have formally assessed the effectiveness of CBPHC in improving child health. Their main emphasis is on documentation of changes in mortality rates or changes in serious morbidity, but we will also include changes in key determinants of child health, such as nutrition, immunization coverage, and access to or correct administration of critical medical therapies (such as antibiotic treatment of pneumonia or malaria).

Documentation that evaluates the positive contribution that community participation does or does not have in improving child health is also especially sought. Evaluations containing qualitative data are sought as much as quantitative data in relationship to all areas of child health. We are looking for negative evidence as well -- articles and documents describing community-based programs and interventions which did not document and improvement in child health.

An Expert Review Panel is now being assembled by Dr. Carl Taylor, Professor Emeritus at The Johns Hopkins University. This Panel will review the findings of the review and their implications. Dr. Henry Perry of Future Generations and Dr. Paul Freeman, independent international public health consultant, are the Co-Chairs of the Task Force carrying out the review.

If you know of any articles or documents that are not widely known or not easily available which might contribute to our review, please contact Paul Freeman at
freeman.p.a@worldnet.att.net or Henry Perry at henry@future.org.

They are planning to widely disseminate the findings of the review, and hope that this project will help to create a greater appreciation of the importance of community-based approaches in improving the health of children living in impoverished populations as well as the limitations of the approach.

 

 

Corporation for National and Community Service Releases Strategic Plan 2006-2010

This plan is the result of a year-long collaborative effort between the Corporation and its network of grantees, project sponsors, staff, and participants.  Community-Campus Partnerships for Health is a member of this network, as a past grantee and in our current role as senior program advisor for higher education for the Nation Service-Learning Clearinghouse.

Now that the plan is complete, the real work begins.  This plan sets ambitious goals for the Corporation for the next five years, including specific performance targets.  The plan also lays out a national vision for volunteer service. The Corporation believes that a better future for all Americans will include a more widespread culture of service, more opportunities for all young people to succeed, more schools that encourage citizenship, and more older Americans using their lifetime of skills to give back to their communities.

The plan embraces bold national goals in four specific focus areas: mobilizing more volunteers, ensuring a brighter future for all of America's youth, engaging students in communities, and harnessing baby boomers' experience.  This vision includes specific targets for the country to reach by 2010, such as 75 million Americans volunteering, 3 million more at-risk youth with mentors, 3 million at-risk youth serving others in their communities, service-learning in half of all K-12 schools, and 3 million more baby boomers engaged in service.

 

The final version of the Corporation's Strategic Plan for 2006 to 2010 is now posted at http://www.nationalservice.gov. 

 

 

Project Reach Announces Grant Awards

Eight American Association of Community Colleges' (AACC) member colleges received grant awards for Project Reach: Service Inclusion for Community College Students, a three-year national initiative of AACC through a grant from the Corporation for National and Community Service and its Engaging Persons with Disabilities, New Special Initiatives Program. The institutions are: Brevard Community College (Fla.), Edmonds Community College (Wash.), El Camino Community College (Calif.), Henderson Community College (Ky.), Miami Dade College (Fla.), Minneapolis Community & Technical College (Minn.), National Park Community College (Ark.), and Prairie State College (Ill.). These colleges will develop opportunities for students with disabilities to participate in service learning and learn life skills that will have an impact on their employment, careers and personal development. The eight Project Reach colleges will be assisted by experienced mentors from Gadsden State Community College (Ala.), Glendale Community College (Calif.), Meridian Community College (Miss.) and Paradise Valley Community College (Ariz.).

 

For more information, see http://www.aacc.nche.edu/projectreach or contact CCPH member Quintin S. Doromal, Jr., Manager, Health and Wellness of Academic, Student and Community Development at AACC, by phone (202) 728.0200 x267 or email: qdoromal@aacc.nche.edu  

 

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MESSAGE FROM OUR EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

 

Sarena Seifer

 

One year after the WK Kellogg Foundation’s 75th anniversary seminar on “Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities: Schools of Public Health Respond as Engaged Institutions” the resulting “call to action” is very much alive and well and being taken seriously.  You may recall that the seminar called upon schools and graduate programs of public health to spearhead efforts to transform all colleges and universities into engaged institutions that are working to eliminate racial and ethnic health disparities (details at http://www.wkkf.org/default.aspx?tabid=119&CID=297&ItemID=1&NID=173&LanguageID=0). The Foundation awarded grants to Community-Campus Partnerships for Health (CCPH) and the Association of Schools of Public Health (ASPH) to continue work begun at the seminar (details at

http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/PM_081205.html#MessageFromExecDirector). 

Today, we are pleased to announce the 12 schools and graduate programs of public health selected for the Engaged Institutions Initiative that is supported by the Foundation’s grant to CCPH (see lead article in this issue). 

 

The grant to ASPH is supporting a Task Force that has been charged with developing benchmarks for schools and graduate programs of public health to achieve in order to become fully engaged institutions, focused on eliminating racial and ethnic health disparities.  CCPH is well represented on the Task Force, with board chair emeritus Elmer Freeman, board chair-elect Ella Greene-Moton serving as members and myself as an ex-officio member.  Chaired by James Kyle, Dean of the Loma Linda University School of Public Health, the Task Force had its first in-person meeting last week in Santa Ana Pueblo, NM to develop an initial set of recommendations.  From the start of the Task Force, the recruitment, retention and development of under-represented minority faculty in public health was viewed as intimately connected to an institution’s ability to be community-engaged and focused on eliminating racial and ethnic health disparities.  As a result, the Task Force sponsored an historic inaugural “Minority Faculty Retreat” immediately prior to its meeting.  Seventy-five minority faculty members from 36 schools of public health and 8 graduate programs of public health gathered to develop a plan to increase the recruitment, retention and development of minority public health faculty.  Presentations followed by small group discussions generated observations and recommendations for teaching, research, service, career development, mentoring, time management and institutional context.  Meeting materials are posted at http://www.asph.org/document.cfm?page=911.   For more information, visit http://www.asph.org/document.cfm?page=876 or contact Gillian Silver at gsilver@asph.org.

 

As the Engaged Institutions Initiative gets underway and the Task Force completes its charge, I look forward to keeping you informed through articles appearing in this newsletter.  To receive e-mail announcements and updates on both – along with other resources to support engaged institutions that are focused on eliminating racial and ethnic health disparities – subscribe to the free Kellogg 75th Anniversary listserv at https://mailman1.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/kellogg75. 

 

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NEWS FROM CCPH

 

 

CCPH 9th Conference

 

May 31-June 3, 2006

Minneapolis, Minnesota

 

Early-bird Registration deadline – April 13!

 

Additional Information

 

Past CCPH Conference Participants

 

 

CCPH 9th Summer

Service-Learning Institute

 

July 21-24, 2006

Cascade Mountains of Washington State

 

Application deadline – April 7!

 

CCPH Members receive

a $200 discount!

 

Application Information

 

SAVE THE DATE!

 

CCPH 10th

Anniversary Conference

 

April 11-14, 2007

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

 

Additional Information

 

Announcing Updates to the Principles and Policies Section of

CCPH’s CBPR Resources Webpage

 

We've recently updated the principles and policies section of our community-based participatory research (CBPR) resources webpage at http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/commbas.html#Principles

Newly posted items include:

·         Principles of Research Collaboration developed by the Canadian Aboriginal AIDS Network's Aboriginal HIV/AIDS Community-Based Research Capacity-Building Initiative

·         A Model Tribal Research Code with materials for tribal regulation for research and checklist for Indian Health Boards, developed by the American Indian Law Center.

·         Policies and procedures to guide decisions about their involvement in research, developed by the Yakima Valley Farm Workers Clinic

 

We welcome additional resources to post on this page!  If you have CBPR principles and policies to share, just email them as an attachment to AnnikaLR@u.washington.edu with any authorship/copyright clearly marked and how you would like them to be described.

 

 

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UPCOMING EVENTS

 

For details on these new listings and all previously listed upcoming events, visit

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