PARTNERSHIP MATTERS

Member Newsletter of Community-Campus Partnerships for Health

Promoting health through partnerships between communities and higher educational institutions

March 31, 2006

Volume VIII ● Issue 7

Message From CCPH Staff

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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CHILDREN’S HEALTH CARE: LIVE WEBCAST – ASK THE EXPERTS AND NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH WEEK KICK-OFF EVENT

"Designing Healthy Communities: Raising Healthy Kids" is the theme of this year's National Public Health Week (NPHW) which starts Monday, April 3 and is sponsored by the American Public Health Association (APHA).  Community-Campus Partnerships for Health is a partner in the effort.  Kaisernetwork.org will webcast two NPHW programs focusing on children’s health:

Tuesday, April 4 at 2:00 pm EST - "Ask the Experts" About Children’s Health Care
This live webcast will focus on issues such as children’s health care financing, expanding access and coverage, disparities and more. The discussion will be moderated by kaisernetwork.org Editor-in-Chief Larry Levitt. The panel of experts will take your phone calls and emails. Send questions in advance to ask@kaisernetwork.org or call 1-888-524-7378 during the live broadcast.

The panel of experts:

• Georges C. Benjamin, MD, FACP, executive director, American Public Health Association
• Christy Ferguson, president and CEO, FirstFocus
• Robin Rudowitz, MPA, principal policy analyst, Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured

Watch the live webcast on kaisernetwork.org at http://cme.kff.org/Key=10448.H48.C.D.JbK135

For more information on the NPHW, visit http://www.apha.org/nphw/2006/.

DRAMATIC CHANGES IN U.S. AGING HIGHLIGHTED IN NEW CENSUS,

NIH REPORT Impact of Baby Boomers Anticipated

The face of aging in the United States is changing dramatically -- and rapidly, according to a new U.S. Census Bureau report, commissioned by the National Institute on Aging (NIA). Today's older Americans are very different from their predecessors, living longer, having lower rates of disability, achieving higher levels of education and less often living in poverty. And the baby boomers, the first of whom celebrated their 60th birthdays in 2006, promise to redefine further what it means to grow older in America.

The report, "65+ in the United States: 2005", was prepared for NIA, a component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, to provide a picture of the health and socioeconomic status of the aging population at a critical time in the maturing of the United States. It highlights striking shifts in aging on a population scale and also describes changes at the local and even family level, examining, for example, important changes in family structure as a result of divorce.

Among the trends:

-- The United States population aged 65 and over is expected to double in size within the next 25 years. By 2030, almost 1 out of every 5 Americans - some 72 million people -- will be 65 years or older. The age group 85 and older is now the fastest growing segment of the U.S. population.

-- The health of older Americans is improving. Still, many are disabled and suffer from chronic conditions. The proportion with a disability fell significantly from 26.2 percent in 1982 to 19.7 percent in 1999. But 14 million people age 65 and older reported some level of disability in Census 2000, mostly linked to a high prevalence of chronic conditions such as heart disease or arthritis.

-- The financial circumstances of older people have improved dramatically, although there are wide variations in income and wealth. The proportion of people aged 65 and older in poverty decreased from 35 percent in 1959 to 10 percent in 2003, mostly attributed to the support of Social Security. In 2000, the poorest fifth of senior households had a net worth of $3,500 ($44,346 including home equity) and the wealthiest had $328,432 ($449,800 including home equity).

-- Geographically, Florida (17.6 percent), Pennsylvania (15.6 percent) and West Virginia (15.3 percent) are the "oldest" states, with the highest percentages of people aged 65 and older. Charlotte County, Fla. (34.7 percent) gets top honors among counties, and McIntosh County, N.D. (34.2 percent) ranks second.

-- Higher levels of education, which are linked to better health, higher income, more wealth and a higher standard of living in retirement, will continue to increase among people 65 and older. The proportion of Americans with at least a bachelor's degree grew five-fold from 1950 to 2003, from 3.4 percent to 17.4 percent, and by 2030, more than one-fourth of the older population is expected to have an undergraduate degree. The percentage completing high school quadrupled between 1950 and 2003, from 17.0 percent to 71.5 percent.

-- As the United States as a whole grows more diverse, so does the population aged 65 and older. In 2003, older Americans were 83 percent non-Hispanic White, 8 percent Black, 6 percent Hispanic and 3 percent Asian. By 2030, an estimated 72 percent of older Americans will be non-Hispanic White, 11 percent Hispanic, 10 percent Black and 5 percent Asian.

-- Changes in the American family have significant implications for future aging. Divorce, for example, is on the rise, and some researchers suggest that fewer children and more stepchildren may change the availability of family support in the future for people at older ages. In 1960, only 1.6 percent of older men and 1.5 percent of women aged 65 and older were divorced. But by 2003, 7 percent of older men and 8.6 percent of older women were divorced and had not remarried. The trend may be continuing. In 2003, among people in their early 60s, 12.2 percent of men and 15.9 percent of women were divorced.

The report was prepared by Dr. Velkoff and co-authors Wan He, Ph.D., Manisha Sengupta, Ph.D., and Kimberly A. DeBarros of the Population Division, U.S. Census Bureau.

The 243-page compendium examines in detail five key areas: growth of the older population (changes in age and racial/ethnic composition), longevity and health (life expectancy and causes of death), economic characteristics (income and household wealth), geographic distribution (by population and race) and social and other characteristics (marital status, living arrangements and voting patterns).

To download the report, visit http://www.census.gov/prod/2006pubs/p23-209.pdf.

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MESSAGE FROM CCPH STAFF

by Emily Bancroft, CCPH Graduate Research Assistant and
Annika Robbins Sgambelluri, CCPH Administrative Director

Last month, we had the opportunity to participate in the 4^th Annual Western Regional International Health Conference, “Health, Human Rights and Economics: The Value of Human Life,” in Portland, Oregon, hosted by Global Health Alliance (GHA), an Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) student group. GHA aims to reduce international health disparities through the promotion of global health awareness, education and advocacy at OHSU. They facilitate opportunities for students to visit other countries to learn about health care in diverse cultures and settings, and use their global health awareness to serve the health care needs of their local community. Through their activities, they hope to increase OHSU collaboration with the global health community in order to promote health equity for all people worldwide.

In this article, we report on several of the sessions we attended and what we learned from them. By sharing this information, we hope to connect you to helpful resources and to inspire you to consider the connection of your work to broader international health and human rights issues.

A session on “Beyond Cultural Competence to Cultural Humility,” was led by Isabelle Soulé, Assistant Professor of Nursing at OHSU and a former CCPH Service-Learning Institute participant. Her theory is that competence is an inadequate description for the way that health care providers should address cultural differences. She states that “the underpinnings of cultural competence are based on a model of active volition, moving forward, and gaining skill, mastery, and competence.” Ms. Soulé counters that cultural humility is a more appropriate term because it “is based on a model of passive volition, receptivity, and being open to learn from others.” She believes that it is not possible to be “culturally competent” because differences in culture are individually-based and that a person can be a part of many different cultures. She states that “cultural humility challenges us to develop intellectual, attitudinal and behavioral flexibility.”

Another session focused on the Northern Ontario School of Medicine (NOSM), which is a new medical school - the first in Canada and the second in North America to be established in the last 34 years. Daniel Hunt, the dean, described how the school’s unique curriculum focuses on underserved populations of rural and Aboriginal people of Canada. They use an online case based curriculum that brings together the local cultural issues with the medical and clinical sciences. As a requirement of the program, students spend a significant amount of time in rural and remote locations working with a local health official. The hope of NOSM is that students who attend the school will become practicing physicians in Northern Ontario at the conclusion of their education and training. For more information about NOSM, visit http://www.normed.ca/.

A session on “Effects of HIV/AIDS on Women and Children in Developing Countries,” included speakers from MercyCorps, the Portland Area Global AIDS Coalition, and the University of California, San Francisco Medical School. The speakers focused on the HIV epidemic and its impact on women and children in Kenya, Botswana, and Uganda, where more than half of those living with HIV are women. The panel discussed some of the biological, social and cultural reasons that women are disproportionately affected by the AIDS epidemic in developing countries. Prevention of mother-to-child transmission, the difficulties of the “abstinence” and “be faithful” messages for women who have contracted the disease through their husbands, and the growing orphan population were all discussed by the panel. Because all three of the panel members had worked in Africa, they were able to give firsthand accounts of the impact of HIV on women and children in Sub-Saharan Africa today.

A session on “Economic Globalization and Health Development” featured Dr. Chunhuei Chi, the Director of the International Health Program at the Oregon Masters in Public Health Program. Dr. Chi presented the results of two studies he has done looking at the impact of globalization and global economic policies on middle to low-income countries. His research supports what many global health professionals have been discussing for many years; that countries that went through a structural adjustment program had higher infant mortality rates and lower life expectancies than those who that did not. He also discussed some new research that he wants to start looking at the impact of the World Trade Organization on health outcomes in middle and low-income countries.

The next Western Regional International Health Conference will take place at the University of Washington in Seattle in 2007. For more information, visit http://www.ohsu.edu/som/gha/index.html.

For examples of community-campus partnerships across the globe that are working to eliminate health disparities, view the abstracts from CCPH’s 2004 joint conference with The Network: Towards Unity for Health on the topic at http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/guide.html#Conf2004

For more resources on international health and international service organizations, visit these weblinks pages on the CCPH website:

International Health - http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/links.html#InternationalHealth

International Service Organizations - http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/links.html#ISO

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NEWS FROM CCPH

CCPH 9^th Conference May 31-June 3, 2006 Minneapolis, Minnesota Early-bird Registration deadline – April 13! Additional Information Past CCPH Conference Participants

CCPH 9^th 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 10^th Anniversary Conference April 11-14, 2007 Toronto, Ontario, Canada Additional Information

Apply Now for CCPH’s 9^th Summer Service-Learning Institute

Deadline is April 7

The deadline is fast approaching for the CCPH Service-Learning Institute! The institute is designed for both new and experienced service-learning practitioners (faculty, staff and community partners). National experts in service-learning -- health professional faculty who have incorporated service into their courses and community leaders who have developed service-learning partnerships with health professions schools – serve as Institute presenters and mentors.

This year’s Summer Service-Learning Institute takes place July 21-24, 2006 in the Cascade Mountains of Washington State.

CCPH members receive a $200 discount! To learn more and to download an application, please visit http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/servicelearning.html.

CCPH Conference Keynote Speaker Addresses Health Disparities

in Infant Mortality & Diabetes on Public Radio

In early March, Loretta Jones, CCPH 9^th Conference Opening Keynote Speaker and Executive Director of Healthy African American Families II, Inc., participated as a panelist in two live radio broadcasts to discuss health disparities, particularly in the areas of infant mortality and diabetes. She was invited by 89.3 KPCC public radio at Pasadena City College as part of the station’s “Health Gap” week. The first discussion, “Talk of the City – Fighting Black Infant Mortality” aired on March 7, followed by “Talk of the City – The Diabetes Crisis in the Latino and African-American Communities” on March 9. To listen to the discussions online, visit http://www.scpr.org/features/2006/health_week/archive.html

To visit the Healthy African American Families II, Inc. website, visit http://www.haaf2.org/

To learn more about CCPH’s 9^th Conference, visit http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/conf-overview.html

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MEMBERSHIP MATTERS

Are You Enjoying ALL of the Benefits CCPH Offers?	Not Yet A Member? Join Today! If you are interested in becoming a member of CCPH or need to renew your current membership, join today!
Need to know about the latest calls for papers within the field of community-campus partnerships? CCPH keeps you informed! Find recent calls for papers and presentations on the CCPH website at: http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/callsforpapers.html. Membership in CCPH helps support these benefits. Join or renew today to ensure that these resources are always available at your fingertips! To learn more about CCPH member benefits, visit http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/members.html.
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UPCOMING EVENTS For details on these new listings and all previously listed upcoming events, visit CCPH’s CONFERENCE PAGE CCPH at Upcoming Events!
APRIL 2006 4 April 24, 2006 ● Symposium on Graduate Study and Civic Engagement at Research Universities ● Palo Alto, California CCPH member Tim Stanton from Stanford University and California Campus Compact Executive Director Elaine Ikeda invite you to this Symposium for graduate-level faculty, administrators, and student leaders at research universities across the State to explore how graduate and professional education can prepare future academics and professionals for effective civic engagement through study, research, and service. The keynote speaker is Lee S. Shulman, President, the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. For further information and to register, please go to : http://www.cacampuscompact.org/cacc_programs/pip_research1/index.html
MAY 2006 4 May 3-4, 2006 ● Health Research Alliance Conference ● Washington, DC CCPH Executive Director, Sarena Seifer and CCPH member Barbara Israel will be presenting on community-based participatory research during the conference. The conference theme is “Building Strategic Partnerships to Advance Health Research.” For more information, visit http://www.healthra.org/ 4 May 31-June 3, 2006 ● CCPH’s 9^th Conference ● Minneapolis, Minnesota USA To learn more, please see the 2006 Conference Update section of this newsletter! For complete details, please visit the CCPH 9^th Conference website at http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/conf-overview.html.
JUNE 2006 4 June 6-9, 2006 ● Symposium on Response to Community Crisis: Lessons from Recent Hurricanes ● Jackson, Mississippi CCPH is a co-sponsor of this symposium being hosted by the Center for Civic Engagement & Social Responsibility at Tougaloo College.  The overall goal is to strengthen the ability of academia and community-based organizations to understand and respond to the needs of citizens during times of crisis.   For details, visit http://www.hbcufdn.org/sum_inst_program_2006.pdf
JULY 2006 4 July 21-24, 2006 ● CCPH’s 9^th Summer Service-Learning Institute ● Cascade Mountains, Washington The Service-Learning Institute is designed for both new and experienced service-learning practitioners (faculty, staff and community partners). National experts in service-learning -- health professional faculty who have incorporated service into their courses and community leaders who have developed service-learning partnerships with health professions schools – serve as Institute presenters and mentors. The application deadline is April 7, 2006. To learn more about our Service-Learning Institutes and to download an application, please visit http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/servicelearning.html. 4 July 27-30, 2006 ● Canadian Community-Based Research Skill-Building Institute for Partnership Teams ● Barrie, Ontario, Canada This interactive skill-building institute will guide participants in initiating, developing, and sustaining community-based research (CBR) partnerships. CCPH Program Director, Kristine Wong, will be an institute mentor, along with CCPH board member Ella Greene-Moton, and CCPH members Robb Travers, Sarah Flicker and Hélène Grégoire. The application deadline is May 5, 2006. For more information, on the training curriculum and the Community-Institutional Partnerships for Prevention Research Group that developed it, please see http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/researchprojects.html#ExaminingCommunityPartnerships For information and the institute application, please visit http://www.wellesleycentral.com/cbrinstitute.csp.
OCTOBER 2006 4 October 14-16, 2006 ● 6^th International Service-Learning Research Conference ● Portland, Oregon CCPH senior consultant Sherril Gelmon is chairing the conference, which is being co-sponsored by CCPH. The theme is “From Passion to Objectivity: International and Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives on Service-Learning Research.” For details, visit http://www.upa.pdx.edu/SLResearch06
NOVEMBER 2006 4 November 4-8, 2006 ● 134^th American Public Health Association Annual Meeting ● Boston, Massachusetts CCPH will be co-hosting a booth in the exhibit hall with the Kellogg Health Scholars Program. For more information, visit http://www.apha.org/meetings/
APRIL 2007 4 April 11-14, 2007 ● CCPH’s 10^thAnniversary Conference ● Toronto, Ontario, Canada Save the Date! The call for conference session and poster proposals will be released this summer. Stay tuned for details at http://www.ccph.info Registration is now open for CCPH’s 9^th conference, May 31-June 3, 2006 in Minneapolis, MN USA. For details, visit http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/conf-overview.html.
New Event Listings For details on these new listings and all previously listed upcoming events, visit CCPH’s CONFERENCE PAGE April 7-September 12, 2006 · American Association of Community Colleges Sponsors Regional Workshops on Service-Learning – Workshops will feature hands-on learning strategies to implement academically based service-learning programs on campuses and in communities. April 7, 2006 · Montgomery County Community College · Blue Bell, Pennsylvania · Email: Christa Leimbach at cleimbac@mc3.edu April 21, 2006 · Southwest Tennessee Community College · Memphis, Tennessee · Email: Julie Dockery at jdockery@soutwest.tn.edu April 28, 2006 · Kilian Community College · Sioux Falls, South Dakota · Email: Wendy Jansen at wjansen@kilian.edu June 1-2, 2006 · Casper College · Casper, Wyoming · Email: Gretchen Wheeler at wheeler@caspercollege.edu September 10-12, 2006 · Northwest Indian College · Bellingham, Washington · Email: Michelle Vendiola at mvendiola@nwic.edu June 22-25, 2006 · Association of University Programs in Health Administration (AUPHA) 2006 Annual Meeting · Seattle, Washington · http://www.aupha.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=3299 July 27-29, 2006 · Building Communities from the Inside Out: Putting ABCD into Action · Chicago, Illinois · http://www.abcdtraininggroup.org October 25-28, 2006 · The 5^th International Conference on Urban Health · Amsterdam, The Netherlands · http://www.icuh2006.com/ return to top

CCPH’s 9^th Conference Walking the Talk: Achieving the Promise of Authentic Partnerships May 31-June 3, 2006 ● Minneapolis, MN USA
Announcements 4 Announcing Plenary Panel of Funding Agency Perspectives! To see the list of confirmed panelists, please visit http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/conf-program.html#SpecialEvents 4 Agenda Now Online! To view the full agenda, please visit http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/conf-agenda.html
	Opening Keynote Speaker: Loretta Jones Ms. Jones is the founder & executive director of Healthy African American Families. As a “Community Gatekeeper,” Ms. Jones has dedicated her entire life towards the hope and healing of community and society-at-large. http://www.haaf2.org	Register Today! Click here for details! Early-bird deadline: April 13, 2006! Hotel reservation deadline: May 5, 2006 Join 500 colleagues who – like you – are passionate about the power of partnerships as a strategy for social justice. The program features pre-conference institutes, skill-
	Closing Keynote Speaker: Angela Glover Blackwell Ms. Blackwell is founder & chief executive officer of PolicyLink, a national nonprofit organization that is advancing a new generation of policies to achieve economic & social equity from the wisdom, voice, and experience of local constituencies. http://www.policylink.org/ For more information on our keynote speakers, visit http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/conf-program.html#KeynoteSpeakers	building workshops, story sessions, community site visits, posters, exhibits and much more! http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/conf-registration.html Please contact Annika Robbins, CCPH administrative director, at AnnikaLR@u.washington.edu or (206) 616-3472 with any questions.
Exhibitor and Co-Sponsor Opportunities Are Available! Exhibitors and co-sponsors are essential to the success of the conference by directly connecting attendees to
valuable programs, products and services. Meet our current co-sponsors at http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/conf-coexhibit.html. Find out how your organization can join this esteemed group by visiting http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/conf-exhibiting.html.
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ANNOUNCEMENTS

Seeking Good Practices – Health & Housing – The Department of General Practice of Primary Health Care at Ghent University in Belgium is making a policy study on the relation between health and housing. They are seeking information on how information on the housing condition of individual patients can be gathered (e.g. health and welfare workers visiting the patient at home can take an important role in reporting housing problems). They are asking for “good practices” abroad in which problems in the living conditions are efficiently and adequately report by health or other professional workers. They are also looking for good practices in which taking care of health and housing quality go hand in hand. If you would like to refer them to researchers, policymakers, fieldworkers or others working on this topic in your country, please contact Tomas Mainil at tomas.mainil@ugent.be.

Catalog of Professional Development Programs for Medical School Faculty Being Developed - Does your medical school offer professional development programs for faculty? Would you like others to know of the great work you are doing in mentoring, new faculty orientation, career development for junior faculty, leadership programs for Chairs, skill-building workshops for researchers and educators? You are invited to highlight your offerings in a national catalog being compiled by the Association of American Medical Colleges’ section on Faculty Development and Leadership. For more information, visit http://www.aamc.org/members/facultydev

Quantitative Methods in Cancer Surveillance – The Surveillance Research Program of the National Cancer Institute is coordinating this course at the Summer Institute of Epidemiology and Biostatistics offered by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. This is a 5-day course that will be held June 26-30, 2006 in Baltimore, Maryland. This course is intended to provide skills for understanding and implementing statistical methods used with cancer registry and related data. For more information, visit http://srab.cancer.gov/hopkins.html

Intern with Context Journal – Deadline: April 13 - Context Journal seeks one paid intern to assist in developing a national database of health projects initiated by students working in communities. This internship is ideal for students interested in community engagement among health professionals. An ideal candidate may be pursuing a career in the non-profit sector or health professions including medicine, nursing, public health or law. This internship is based in Atlanta, Georgia. Context Journals’ editor-in-chief, Carmen Patrick, is also a CCPH board member. For more information, visit http://www.contextjournal.org

Building Partnerships for Youth – This Collaboration Tool is a customizable PowerPoint tool to help bring people together about issues that are important for the health, education and well-being of young people. It consists of a PowerPoint presentation and instruction manual detailing the steps necessary to customize it for use in your state or community. The presentation provides practical examples for how community, family and school can be strengthened through non-school-hour youth development programs. Included in the presentation are questions designed to initiate discussion among state and community groups. For more information, visit http://ag.arizona.edu/fcs/bpy/

Free Resource: Why Bad Presentations Happen to Good Causes – Based on unprecedented research across the public interest sector, and incorporating the advice of 20 highly regarded public speaking experts, “Why Bad Presentations Happen to Good Causes” can help nonprofits design and deliver presentations that avoid common pitfalls. Andy Goodman’s accessible guide will help you engage, inspire, and motivate the audiences you need to reach. To order a free copy, visit http://www.causecommunications.org/CC/CC_news06_1.html

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EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES

Executive Director – Rhode Island Campus Compact – The Executive Director will be the primary administrator for the organization, and the essential link to the national network, comprised of 31 state affiliates of Campus Compact. For more information, email Marisa Petreccia at mgrove@risd.edu.

Program Associate – Community Change Initiatives, The Annie E. Casey Foundation – Baltimore, Maryland – The Program Associates will help manage the design, development, and implementation of resources, support and technical assistance for the Making Connections initiative. For more information, email Jestine May at 410.547.6600.

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GRANTS ALERT!

Listed below are announcements only. To view all previously listed grant alerts, please visit

CCPH's FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES PAGE

James Irvine Foundation New Connections Fund – Deadline: April 17, 2006 – Grants available to projects that align with the Fund’s two goals – 1) to identify nonprofit organizations doing high-quality work that is well-aligned with selected program strategies, particularly in regions of priority interest, and 2) to increase the number of new organizations in Irvine’s grant portfolio.
http://www.irvine.org/grants_program/howto/new_connections/application_process.shtml

Speaking Together: National Language Services Network– Deadline: April 26, 2006 – A new Robert Wood Johnson Foundation national program to support hospitals to improve the quality and availability of health care language services for patients with limited English proficiency.
http://www.rwjf.org/applications/solicited/cfp.jsp?ID=19507

Call for Proposals: Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation-Ontario Chapter – Deadline: May 8, 2006 – Community-based research grants are available through the Community Health Promotion Grant Program. Eligible projects must take place within the province of Ontario.
http://www.cbcf.org/ontario/fund/community.html

Foundation for the Improvement of Justice – Deadline: June 1, 2006 – Awards are available for innovative programs or actions that have been effective in the pursuit of justice and can serve as models for others. http://www.justiceawards.com

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation: Local Initiative Funding Partners Program – Deadline: July 6, 2006 – The program is a partnership between the RWJF and local grantmakers that support innovative, community-based projects to improve health and health care for vulnerable populations. http://www.lifp.org/

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AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS & SCHOLARSHIPS

Listed below are announcements only. To view all previously listed announcements, please visit

CCPH's AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS, & SCHOLARSHIPS PAGE

Complementary and Alternative Medicine Leadership Training Program – Deadline: April 7, 2006 – The American Medical Student Association (AMSA) is seeking medical students with a strong interest in complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) combined with a desire for leadership training in CAM. The program is hosted in Rhinebeck, New York on June 18-23, 2006. http://www.amsa.org/humed/CAM/ltp.cfm

Herbert W. Nickens Award, Faculty Fellowships and Medical Student Scholarships – Deadline: April 7, 2006 – The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) is accepting nominations for all three awards. The Herbert W. Nickens Award is given to an individual who has made outstanding contributions to efforts that promote justice in medical education and provide equal health care for all Americans. http://www.aamc.org/about/awards

End of Life Care Fellowships – Deadline: April 10, 2006 – The American Medical Student Association (AMSA) is offering a six-week fellowship for 18 selected medical students. This fellowship will take place July 19-July 28, 2006 in Chicago and Miami. http://www.amsa.org/eol/

Washington Health Policy Fellowship Program – Deadline: April 10, 2006 – This summer program in health and social policy is designed to encourage selected medical and dental students’ interest in health policy and advocacy. The program is hosted in Washington, DC on June 19-28, 2006. http://www.amsa.org/whpfp/

Primary Care Leadership Training Program – Deadline: May 8, 2006 – The American Medical Student Association (AMSA) will offer this program under the auspices of the Achieving Diversity in Dentistry and Medicine project. The theme this year is “Learning from Each Other: Cultural Competency in Medicine and Dentistry.” The program is hosted in Syracuse, New York on August 7-11, 2006. http://www.amsa.org/addm/

Fulbright Scholar Program – Deadline: August 1, 2006 – The Fulbright Scholar Program is offering 29 lecturing, research or combined lecturing/research awards in medicine and medical education during the 2007-2008 academic year in all regions of the world. http://www.cies.org

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CALLS FOR PAPERS & PRESENTATIONS

Listed below are announcements only. To view all previously listed announcements, please visit

CCPH's CALLS FOR PAPERS & PRESENTATIONS PAGE

Call for Abstracts: The Network: Towards Unity for Health International Conference – Deadline: June 1, 2006 – The Network:TUFH invites abstracts containing empirical, theoretical or descriptive studies relevant to the field. The 2006 Conference will take place September 9-14, 2006 in Ghent, Belgium in cooperation with the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at Ghent University. This year’s theme is “Improving Social Accountability in Education, Research and Service Delivery.” There will be a post-conference visit to the Faculty of Medicine at Maastricht University, the Netherlands on September 14-16, 2006. http://www.the-networktufh.org/conference/

Call for Abstracts: 5^th International Conference on Urban Health– Deadline: June 15, 2006 – The Conference, presented by the International Society for Urban Health, will take place October 25-28, 2006 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. http://www.icuh2006.com/

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PUBLICATIONS CCPH Members receive discounts on publications by Jossey-Bass as well as all CCPH publications
	Planning Health Promotion Programs: An Interview Mapping Approach This guide to the planning of health promotion programs uses the increasingly popular Intervention Mapping approach, a theory – and evidence-based interactive process that links needs assessment with program planning in a way that adds efficiency and improves outcomes. CCPH Members receive a 15% discount when ordered through the CCPH website! Ordering information: http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/josseybass.html
Staying Alive: Critical Perspectives on Health, Illness, and Health Care Edited by Dennis Raphael, Toba Bryant and Marcia Rioux This provocative new book will change the way that the Sociology of Health and Illness is taught in Sociology departments across Canada. Those teaching in Health Studies, Nursing, and Policy Studies programs will also be keenly interested in this ground-breaking book. Staying Alive provides a fresh perspective on health, health care, and illness by emphasizing the role public policy plays in influencing these issues and how such policy is shaped by political, economic, and social forces. Ordering information, click here.
Resources from Sage Publications on Conducting Focus Groups The Focus Group Guidebook, Focus Group Kit, Volume 1 by Morgan, D. L. http://www.sagepub.com/book.aspx?pid=3772 Planning Focus Groups, Focus Group Kit, Volume 2, by Morgan, D. L. http://www.sagepub.com/book.aspx?pid=3773 Developing Questions for Focus Groups, Focus Group Kit, Volume 3, by Krueger, R. A. http://www.sagepub.com/book.aspx?pid=3754 Moderating Focus Groups, Focus Group Kit, Volume 4 by Krueger, R. A. http://www.sagepub.com/book.aspx?pid=3755 Involving Community Members in Focus Groups, Volume 5 by Krueger, R. A. & Kind, J. A. http://www.sagepub.com/book.aspx?pid=3756 Analyzing and Reporting Focus Group Results, Volume 6, Krueger, R. A. http://www.sagepub.com/book.aspx?pid=3757
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NEW & RENEWING MEMBERS February 2006 Please Join Us in Welcoming the Following New CCPH Members ~ joined between February 1-28, 2006 E-Members Fox, Annie, Harlan Countians for a Health Community, Harlan, KY Greenberg, Stuart, Environmental Health Watch, Cleveland, OH Hassel, Craig, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN Horsburgh Jr., C. Robert, Boston University, Boston, MA Northington Gamble, Vanessa, Tuskegee University, Tuskegee, AL Nurius, Paula, University of Washington, Seattle, WA Ross-Hammond, Amelia, Norfolk State University, Norfolk, VA Santiago, Amor, The Health Trust, San Jose, CA Individual Premium Members Holloway, Angela, Indiana Area Health Education Centers Program, Indianapolis, IN Natale-Pereira, Ana, University of Medicine & Dentistry, Newark, NJ Seidman, Rachel, Melpomene Institute, Saint Paul, MN Stanfield, Dorothy, University British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada Tapping, Peggy J, Tapping & Associates Consulting, Sacramento, CA Thaler, Roni, Center for Information and Study on Clinical Research Participation, Dedham, MA Tseng, Winston, University California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA Weingart, Sherry, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL Organizational Members El Proyecto Bienestar, Seattle, Toppenish, and Granger, WA Crowe, Jennifer Leber, Eric Sotelo, Lupe Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA Pierre, Claire Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN Martin, Joanne Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD Gibbons, Michael Minnesota State University, Mankato, MN Krampf, Harry Montana State University, Bozeman, MT Young, Sara L. Northeast Florida Area Health Education Center, Jacksonville, FL & PTO Nassau County, Yulee, FL Coleman, Karen Hicks, Marti University of Georgia, Athens, GA Galen, Bob Hou, Su-I Opinas, Pamela Wells, Ashley University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE Wendl, Mary University South Florida, Tampa, FL Liller, Karen Osman, Hana University of Texas Health Sciences Center-San Antonio, TX Sanderson, Elissa Temple University, Philadelphia, PA Gordon, Daryl Kluetmeier, Tina Yoshida, Hitomi YMCA of the USA, Holyoke, MA Collins, Gina Dunn, Shawn Free, Val Mackey, Suzanne Orange, Marcellette
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Thank You to these Renewing Members for their Continued Support! ~ joined between February 1-28, 2006 E-Members Clemmens, Donna, New York University, New York, NY Glover, Todd, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE Nieb, Sharon, Emory University, Atlanta, GA Primm, Denise, Tennessee Primary Care Association, Brentwood, TN Individual Premium Members Bernadett, Martha, Molina Health Care, Long Beach, CA Berry, Diane, Yale University, Dunbury, CT Brown, David G, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Lincoln, NE Cary, Meredith, Uniformed Services, University of the Health Sciences, Arlington, VA Fleisher, Linda, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Cheltenham, PA Flood, Lawrence, Buffalo State College, Buffalo, NY Frey, Cathy, University of Wisconsin Medical School, Madison, WI Gaskie, Sean, Sutter Medical Center of Santa Rosa, Santa Rosa, CA Gordon, Bethany A., Calvin College, Grand Rapids, MI Halbert, Chanita, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA Horn, Wendy Sykes, Women's HealthLink, Birmingham, AL Lewis, LaVonna, University Of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA Ridenour, Nancy, Illinois State University, Normal, IL Spears, William, University of Texas, San Antonio, TX Stephenson, Andrea, Glades Initiative, Inc., Belle Glade, FL Taylor, Heidi, West Texas A&M University, Canyon, TX Treadwell, Henrie, Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA Woodhouse, Lynn, East Stroudsburg University, Ponte Vedra Beach, FL Younkin, Sharon, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI Zakocs, Ronda, Boston University, Boston, MA Student Members Elias, Thistle, University of Pittsburgh, PA Organizational Members Center for Healthier Children, University of California, Los Angeles, CA Perez, Victor Child Family Health International, San Francisco, CA Fuller Matambanadzo, Betsy Jones, Evaleen Michalek, Amie Schmidbauer, Steve E. Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA Crist, Patricia A. Hansen, Anne Marie Munoz, Jaime Provident, Ingrid El Proyecto Bienestar, Yakima, WA Ybarra, Vickie Greater Lawrence Family Health Center, Lawrence, MA Cleghorn, Dean Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA Hannibal, Kari Hess, Jean Urion, David K. Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD Bone, Lee R. Bowie, Janice Lawrence, Robert Lehman College, City University of New York, Bronx, NY Levitt, Jane Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, CA Belliard, Juan Carlos Dyjack, David T. Gaede, Donn Herring, Patricia Minnesota State University, Mankato, MN DeFor, Valerie Engeswick, Lynette Herth, Kaye Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, CT Anderson-Harris, Wanda Ferraro, Meredith C. Lee, Melba University of California, Los Angeles, CA Barreto, Patricia Kuo, Alice Slusser, Wendy University of California, San Francisco, Fresno, CA Anderson, Heather Blossom, H. John University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE Ammerman, Alice S Fiandt, Kathryn Tilden, Virginia P University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM Clithero, Amy Derksen, Dan J. Heider, Diana Powell, Charles Wayne University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC Belton, Leigh Benedict, Salli Garcia, Beverly University of North Florida, Jacksonville, FL Kruger, Barbara J.
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