CCPH - Partnership Matters Newsletter

The National Institutes of Health has established an Extramural Scientist Administration Interest Group (ESAIG) called the Community-Based Participatory Research Scientific Interest Group.

The purpose of the working group is to strengthen communication among federal agencies with an interest in supporting community-based participatory research (CBPR) methodologies in the conduct of biomedical research, education, health care delivery, or policy.

The group defines CBPR as scientific inquiry conducted in communities in which community members, persons affected by condition or issue under study and other key stakeholders in the community's health have the opportunity to be full participants in each phase of the work: conception - design - conduct - analysis - interpretation - conclusions - communication of results.

The group's priority objectives are to:

Serve as a focal point to identify and develop new, coordinated activities to increase awareness, understanding and use of CBPR; Critically evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of CBPR;
Identify challenges and opportunities for supporting CBPR;
Encourage research training and career development opportunities for CBPR researchers and practitioners; and
Serve as a network through which information can be shared regarding community-based participatory research activities.

The Community-Based Participatory Research Interest Group is an outgrowth of an older group called the Interagency Working Group (IWG) which was established in 2002 by the then Director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences - Dr. Olden. At that point in time there were over 23 federal agencies that were invited to be members of this group. One of the outcomes of the IWG was the development and announcement of the "Community Participation In Research" program announcement which expires in 2008. The IWG does not officially exist anymore. However, there was a lot of interest among several of the program directors from various federal agencies to create an interest group.

Core Directorship of CBPR SIG
Steering Committee:
Chair - Bill Elwood, Center for Scientific Review
Co-Chair Jeff Evans (NICHD)
Secretary Paul Cotton (NINR)
Founding members:
Jared Jobe (NHLBI), Carmen Moten (NIMH) and Shobha Srinivasan, (NCI) took the lead in establishing CBPR SIG.

For more information on the SIG, visit http://grants.nih.gov/grants/training/esaig/cbpr_sig.htm

For more information on the now-defunct IWG, visit http://www.niehs.nih.gov/translat/IWG/iwghome.htm

Stay on top of the latest CBPR news by subscribing to the free CBPR listserv cosponsored by CCPH and the Wellesley Institute: https://mailman1.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/cbpr

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MESSAGE FROM OUR EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Sarena Seifer

A scan of the program for this year’s American Public Health Association (APHA) conference reveals a 
remarkable array of sessions on community-based participatory research and in particular the link 
between CBPR, community capacity building and policy change.  A “quick and dirty” analysis of the 
APHA conference programs over the past five years indicates a dramatic growth in the number of 
sessions that address CBPR, as measured by the number of “hits” when searching the online program 
using the acronym:

2007: 90

2006: 55

2005: 41

2004: 42

2003: 15

2002: 15

2001: 7

2000: 6

Of course, without further investigation, it’s impossible to say for sure that all of the sessions that mention CBPR have 
demonstrated CBPR principles and approaches in their work.  As with any approach that is gaining favor among funding 
agencies and policymakers, the term is being used to describe a wide continuum of community involvement in research. 
But we can observe a growth over time of interest in CBPR in the public health community.

CCPH views CBPR as a vehicle for combining the knowledge, wisdom and experience in communities and in academic
institutions to solve our major health, social and economic challenges. We embrace the definition advanced the WK
Kellogg Foundation Community Health Scholars Program that CBPR is a "collaborative approach to research that
equitably involves all partners in the research process and recognizes the unique strengths that each brings. CBPR
begins with a research topic of importance to the community, has the aim of combining knowledge with action and
achieving social change to improve health outcomes and eliminate health disparities."
(See: http://www.sph.umich.edu/chsp/)

We see our role in CBPR as supporting the ability of community-campus partnerships to achieve the promise of this definition. At the same time, we recognize that not everyone comes to CBPR for the same reason or from the same
starting point. We are often in the position of helping people move along the continuum from traditional research approaches to CBPR approaches. For example, a call last week from a senior researcher at an academic medical center indicated that her interest in community engagement was prompted by “the writing on the wall at NIH.” Nevertheless, we view her search for assistance as an opportunity to help shape the thoughts, beliefs and actions of an opinion leader in her
field and within her institution. In another recent example, a community-based coalition working to eliminate health disparities came to CCPH to find experts who could help them develop a set of research principles and priorities before approaching researchers at a nearby university about the possibility of collaborating.

Increasingly, we are serving as a “home” for community, academic and funding partners who are interested and involved 
in CBPR.  Our priorities include supporting not only the partnerships among these stakeholders, but the unique needs and 
challenges of each group.

For example:

Partnerships:  The skill-building curriculum, Developing and Sustaining CBPR Partnerships, is available online at 
http://www.cbprcurriculum.info and is offered as a one-day learning institute on November 3 during this year’s American 
Public Health Association Conference, www.apha.org.  CCPH served as the facilitating center for the CDC-funded Examining 
Community-Institutional Partnerships for Prevention Research Group that developed the curriculum.  The CBPR listserv we 
cosponsor with the Wellesley Institute is viewed by subscribers as a valued resource not only for funding opportunities, conferences 
and other announcements, but for collaborative problem-solving as well.  The listserv has evolved an ethic of “if you ask a question, 
you post a summary of responses so everyone can benefit from the knowledge gained.”  To subscribe: 
https://mailman1.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/cbpr

Community partners:  The Community Partner Summit we convened in April 2006 with funding from the WK Kellogg 
Foundation has helped to mobilize a national network of community partners involved in CBPR for peer support and advocacy:

http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/cps.html.  The Educational Conference Call Series on Institutional Review Boards and 
Ethical Issues in Research we are cosponsoring with the Tuskegee University Bioethics Center has focused several calls on 
mechanisms that community partners can establish to ensure that research in their communities builds capacity, addresses 
community concerns, and is participatory and culturally appropriate.  (Registration is open for the final call in the series on 
June 25: http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/irbcalls.html

Academic partners: The Community-Engaged Scholarship Toolkit is designed to help faculty members who are engaged in 
CBPR to “make their best case” for promotion and/or tenure, documenting CBPR as the rigorous scholarship it can be.

http://www.communityengagedscholarship.info.

Funding partners: At this year’s CCPH 10^th anniversary conference in April in Toronto, we convened a gathering of funders 
from the US and Canada to share experiences and "lessons learned" in supporting community-based research. The group decided 
to form a Funder Interest Group and will be holding its next meeting by conference call in July.

We welcome your suggestions of ways we can help support you in your work, whether you are involved in or hope to be involved 
in service-learning, CBPR, or other community-campus partnerships.  You may write me directly at sarena@u.washington.edu

NEWS FROM CCPH

National Request for Proposals to

Serve as CCPH’s Organizational Home

Letters of Intent Due TODAY by 5 pm Pacific Time

The CCPH Board of Directors has issued a National Request for Proposals to serve as CCPH's organizational home.

The RFP, along with questions and answers on the RFP, are available under the “What’s New” column on the CCPH home page at http://www.ccph.info.

CCPH Consultancy Network

To arrange a customized workshop or consultation through the CCPH Consultancy Network, contact CCPH executive director Sarena Seifer at sarena@u.washington.edu or visit http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/mentor.html

To view presentations and handouts from past CCPH Consultancy Network events, visit http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/

pastpresentations.html

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10^th ANNIVERSARY NEWS

Getting Hooked on CCPH

By CCPH member Stuart Feldman, Dean, Touro College of Pharmacy, New York City, NY

http://www.touro.edu/pharmacy/

Editor’s Note: As part of our 10^th Anniversary Celebration, CCPH put out a call for “stories of impact” that capture how CCPH has had an impact on you, your partnership, and/or the field as a whole. (See:

http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/PM_020907.htm#Anniv). Thanks to all who responded! Some of your stories were incorporated into the report, Community-Campus Partnerships for Health: Celebrating a Decade of Impact (See http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/PM_042707_new.html#Anniv). Others are being shared through the CCPH website and Partnership Matters newsletter. Do you have a story to tell?

Email it to ccphuw@u.washington.edu

“I became familiar with CCPH in 2001. A former dean of pharmacy at the University of Georgia I was now working on developing expanded health and biomedical sciences programs at the university. Two major thrusts were the expanding of research programs based in communities and the development of a new school of public health. I came across the CCPH website and immediately saw the important connection between that organization and my plans at UGA. I attended my first CCPH meeting in 2002 and I was hooked. It is not very often than an organization matches up so closely with the academic plans of a university. I became a member of CCPH and later obtained institutional membership for the University of Georgia. CCPH was of great value and an important resource in constructing a framework for community-based participatory research at UGA, development of aspects of the Master of Public Health program moving forward the plans for a College of Public Health.

From receiving CCPH emails, attending annual meetings, and having CCPH involved in programming at Georgia and at the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (the national pharmacy college organization), CCPH has been an important asset. In my present position as the founding dean at Touro College of Pharmacy in Harlem (New York City), CCPH continues to be a major influence on the development of a new pharmacy program that is involved with the community and focused on the development of a diverse pharmacy workforce.”

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MEMBERSHIP MATTERS

Are You Enjoying ALL of the

Benefits CCPH Membership Offers?

CCPH Online Member Directory

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!

Connect with colleagues from across the country and around the world through the CCPH online Member Directory: http://web.memberclicks.com/mc/page.do?orgId=ccph. Once you’ve logged in with your username and password, you can update your profile and search for other CCPH members by region, area of expertise, and a variety of other search criteria.

The Member Directory is a great way to send announcements to the people who are most interested - other CCPH members! CCPH staff also use the information in the Member Directory to send out customized emails based on your self-identified interests and areas of expertise. If you are unsure of your username and password, email ccphuw@u.washington.edu.

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, visit http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/members.html.

FEATUREDMEMBER

BeverlyMcCabe-Sellers

Beverly McCabe-Sellers is Research Coordinator and Nutritionist at the US Department of Agriculture (USDA), Agricultural Research Service Lower Mississippi Delta Nutrition Intervention Research Initiative (Delta NIRI) (http://www.ars.usda.gov/main/site_main.htm?modecode=62-51-05-00). The mission of Delta NIRI is to improve the health of rural residents

of the Lower Mississippi Delta through nutrition intervention research and intervention methodology research that is sustainable. Their approach is to fully develop the community-based participatory research (CBPR) model of equitable partnerships among community members, university faculty, and USDA research scientists.

In her interview, Beverly describes her passion for CBPR and the work that she is doing to enhance and sustain rural communities. When you take the CBPR approach, she believes that “you’re not just doing research, you are becoming involved in the lives of real people.” Read Beverly’s interview to learn about her unique view of the benefits of CBPR.

Read the full interview.

Read previous featured member interviews.

Would you like to be a CCPH Featured Member? See below for details….

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If you did not receive or misplaced your password for accessing member-only pages on the CCPH website, contact CCPH at (206) 543-8178 or ccphuw@u.washington.edu

Would you like to be a CCPH Featured Member?

Let the world know about your partnership work! Email us ccphuw@u.washington.edu for details.

Read about the Current CCPH Featured Member Hitomi Yoshida at http://www.ccph.info

To view past CCPH Featured Members, visit http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/pastfeaturedmembers.html

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MEMBERS IN ACTION

		Congratulations to CCPH member Cathy Jordan on her promotion from assistant professor to associate professor of pediatrics and neurology at the University of Minnesota. Cathy is also Director of the Children, Youth, and Family Consortium at the University of Minnesota and Chair of the Community-Engaged Scholarship for Health Collaborative's Peer Review Work Group (see: http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/healthcollab.html). We also thank Cathy for contributing excerpts of her successful portfolio for posting on the Community-Engaged Scholarship Toolkit at http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/toolkit-portexamples.html
NOTE: If you have recently have been promoted and/or tenured, let us toot your horn in the Members in Action section of Partnership Matters Newsletter! Whether you are a CCPH member or not, we also invite you to share excerpts of your successful portfolio so that fellow community-engaged faculty members can learn from your example and "make their best" for promotion and/or tenure! Submit your news/excerpts to ccphuw@u.washington.edu. Visit the Community-Engaged Scholarship Toolkit at www.communityengagedscholarship.info

	Congratulations to CCPH member Scott Rhodes of Wake Forest University for being awarded the Professional and Community Service Award, presented to the Public Health Sciences faculty member who has had "long-standing success in developing exceptional programs to address the public health needs of the greater community and expand the public outreach efforts of the Division and the Institution. Read more at: http://www1.wfubmc.edu/news/NewsArticle.htm?ArticleID=2086
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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!

JUNE 2007

4 June 7-9, 2007 ● Crossroads II: Community-Based Collaborative Research for Social Justice ● Hartford, Connecticut

CCPH is cosponsoring this 2nd international community-based research conference sponsored by the Institute for Community Research. Crossroads II will explore the transformative potential of community-based collaborative research to promote social justice. CCPH board chair Ella Greene-Moton will be speaking on the future, funding and development of community based research on June 8. CCPH will also have an exhibit at the conference. For more information, visit http://www.incommunityresearch.org/crossroadsII.htm

4 June 25, 2007 from 12:00 – 1:30 pm PST ● IRB Reform: Changing Policy and Practice to Protect Communities ● Educational Conference Call Series on IRBs and Ethical Issues in Research ● Co-sponsored by CCPH and the Tuskegee University National Center for Bioethics in Research and Health Care

This sixth call in the series will cover these topics:

§ Findings from recent studies of IRBs and CBPR

§ Do IRB policies and practices adequately protect communities? How should they be changed?

§ Ideas and recommendations for how IRBs could better protect
communities

Speakers:

§ Syed Ahmed, Director of the Center for Healthy Communities (CHC) & Professor of Family and Community Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI

§ Sarah Beversdorf, Rural Health Liaison for the Healthier Wisconsin Partnership Program, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

§ Sarah Flicker, Assistant Professor, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

§ Robb Travers, Scientist and Director of Community-Based Research, Ontario HIV Treatment Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

§ Nancy Shore, Assistant Professor at the University of New England School of Social Work, Portland, Maine

To register for this call, complete the online registration form at https://catalysttools.washington.edu/survey/ccphuw/33264

Audiofiles and handouts from previous calls are available at

http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/pastpresentations.html

For more information, contact CCPH Graduate Research Assistant Jessica Grignon at jgrignon@u.washington.edu

4 June 26-29, 2007 ● Summer Institute on Community-Based Participatory Research ● Jackson, Mississippi

CCPH joins with the Historically Black Colleges and Universities Faculty Development Network and the Center for Civic Engagement & Social Responsibility at Tougaloo College in cosponsoring this intensive team-based institute. CCPH board chair Ella Greene-Moton and CCPH member Ann-Gel Palermo will be speaking on "Creating authentic community-campus partnerships" and serving as mentors to community-academic teams attending the institute. CCPH will also have an exhibit. For more information, visit http://www.hbcufdn.org

To stay on top of the latest CBPR news, funding opportunities, conferences and other resources, subscribe to the free CBPR listserv co-sponsored by CCPH and the Wellesley Institute at http://mailman1.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/cbpr

JULY 2007

4 July 18-20, 2007 ● University-Community Partnerships Conference ● Blacksburg, VA

The Community Calls Forth the University is the Fourth Annual University-Community Partnership Conference hosted by Virginia Tech's Service-Learning Center. CCPH is a conference cosponsor and Susan Gust, CCPH Board Member and Community Partner Summit participant will be presenting.

For more information about the conference, visit http://www.cpe.vt.edu/unicom/ or contact Michele James-Deramo at deramo@vt.edu. For more information about the Community Partner Summit, visit http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/cps.html

4 July 19-20, 2007 ● Northwest Health Foundation 3rd Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) Conference ● Portland, OR

The conference, "Healthier Communities through Action and Research" is designed for community members, community organizations, academic research and teaching faculty, public health officials, funding organizations, and policymakers. The conference will provide a dynamic forum for exploring issues related to community-based research partnerships, methods, funding and project planning, and the dissemination of findings. Effective models of CBPR from the northwest and nationally will be showcased.

CCPH is a conference co-sponsor and CCPH Program Director Kristine Wong serves on the conference planning committee. For more information, visit www.nwhf.org

4 July 20-23, 2007 ● CCPH’s 10^th Summer Service-Learning Institute ● Cascade Mountains, WA

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.

To learn more, please visit http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/servicelearning.html

OCTOBER 2007

4 October 6-9, 2007 ● 7th International Research Conference on Service-Learning and Community Engagement ● Tampa, FL

The conference theme is Sustainability and Scholarship: Research and the K-20 Continuum." CCPH is organizing an all-day pre-conference workshop on Developing and Sustaining Community-Based Participatory Research Partnerships” on October 6. CCPH senior consultant Sherril Gelmon chairs the board of the International Association for Research on Service-Learning and Community Engagement, the organization sponsoring the conference.

To learn more about the conference, visit http://www.floridacompact.org/~floridac/irsl/index.html

To learn more about the pre-conference workshop on CBPR, visit http://www.floridacompact.org/~floridac/irsl/info.html

NOVEMBER 2007

4 November 3-7, 2007 ● American Public Health Association (APHA) Annual Meeting ● Washington, DC

This year’s APHA conference theme is “Politics, Policy and Public Health.” As usual, CCPH members and staff are playing significant roles in the conference:

CCPH member Amanda Vogel will be giving a presentation on the "Long-term sustainability of service-learning programs: A ten year follow-up study of the Health Professions Schools in Service to the Nation program" as part of a session on "Teaching and learning about community in public health academia," scheduled for Tuesday November 6, 2007 at 4:30 pm.

CCPH program director Kristine Wong is coordinating one of the two community-based participatory research (CBPR) learning institutes sponsored by the Community-Based Public Health Caucus of APHA. The full-day session on November 3, "Developing and Sustaining CBPR Partnerships" is based in part on the curriculum developed by a collaborative project funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, described at http://www.cbprcurriculum.info/. On November 4, a half-day learning institute will cover "CBPR: Working with Communities to Analyze and Interpret Data and Get to Outcomes.

For more information on the APHA conference, visit http://www.apha.org/meetings/highlights/

For more information on the learning institutes, visit http://www.apha.org/programs/education/edannualmtg/APHA-Learning+Institute.htm

To view the conference program, go to
http://apha.confex.com/apha/135am/techprogram/

Note: It's possible to register just for a learning institute if you can’t make the whole conference!

MAY 2008

4 May 4-7, 2008 ● CUexpo2008 – Community-University Partnerships: Connecting for Change ● Victoria, BC, Canada

This event is supported by the Office of Community-Based Research at the University of Victoria, http://www.uvic.ca/research/ocbr. CCPH is a conference supporting organization.

Session proposals are due November 15, 2007. For more information, contact Mary O’Rourke, maireco@telus.net or visit http://www.uvic.ca/research/ocbr/cuexpo/index.html

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New Event Listings

For details on these new listings and all previously listed upcoming events, visit CCPH’s CONFERENCE PAGE

June 23-29, 2007 · 5th Annual Summer Workshop on Disparities in Health in America: Working Toward Social Justice · Houston, TX · http://www.mdanderson.org/departments/crmh/

July 30-August 1, 2007 · 3rd International Conference on Patient- and Family-Centered Care · Seattle, WA · http://www.familycenteredcare.org

September 6-7, 2007 · Institute for Interprofessional Prevention Education · Washington, DC · http://www.aptrweb.org/education/Institute_2007.html

October 3-5, 2007 · 8th National Conference on Preventing Crime: Helping Build Safer Communities · Atlanta, GA · http://guest.cvent.com/i.aspx?5S,P1,3BF97742-11B2-46E0-84AD-7D000794F69F

May 13-15, 2008 · MedBiquitous Consortium Annual Conference · Baltimore, MD · http://www.medbiq.org/

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ANNOUNCEMENTS

Developing Better Non-English Materials Report - The report Developing Better Non-English Materials: Understanding the Limits of Translation, shares lessons learned regarding barriers faced by health care organizations in producing useful translated text and in evaluating those products for quality. The report describes the experience and challenges encountered by the Hablamos Juntos demonstrations and offers new insight and perspectives on questions. The report is available at: http://www.hablamosjuntos.org/resource_guide_portal/pdf/Brief-NonEngl-Final.pdf Hablamos Juntos (Spanish for We Speak Together) is a project funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and administered by University of California at San Francisco-Fresno, Center for Medical Education & Research, to develop affordable models for language access. The ten demonstration sites funded under Hablamos Juntos included health plans, hospital systems, nonprofit community organizations and educational institutions. http://www.hablamosjuntos.org

US Senators Urge Treasury to Improve Nonprofit Transparency - Including Universities and Hospitals - In a May 25 letter to Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, Senate Finance Committee Chair Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and Ranking Member Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) urged the Treasury Department to update the Form 990, which is used for tax related purposes, as part of an effort to improve transparency in the nonprofit sector, particularly for universities and hospitals. Specifically related to hospitals, Senators Baucus and Grassley urge the IRS to look to "the supplemental reporting guidelines of the Catholic Health Association regarding charity care and community benefits as a template."
http://www.aamc.org/advocacy/library/washhigh/2007/060107/start.htm#3

Immigration Bill Includes Physician Visa Reform - Senators Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) and Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) May 21 introduced a substitute amendment (S.AMDT.1150) to the "Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2007" (S.1348), which had served as a placeholder on the Senate calendar. The new language includes changes to the laws governing H-1B visas, J-1 visas, and the Conrad 30 waiver program for physicians. Of particular importance to academic medicine, the new language excludes "graduate medical education and training" from eligible specialty occupations under the H-1B visa. For more information, contact Matthew Shick mshick@aamc.org, AAMC Office of Governmental Relations, at 202-828-0525. http://www.aamc.org/advocacy/library/washhigh/2007/060107/start.htm#4

Final Conference Report of the New Orleans Health Disparities Initiative Now Available - The report, titled Rebuilding a Healthy New Orleans grew out of a community-based conference in June of 2006 on the need to address minority health disparities in both the health care system rebuilding and in the environment after Hurricane Katrina. Since then, participants in the conference process have continued to develop the analysis from the conference, and the final report presents an important framework for assessing environmental justice and health system rebuilding in the New Orleans region. The report is available at http://www.prrac.org/pdf/rebuild_healthy_nola.pdf.

President Bush on Thursday nominated James W. Holsinger, M.D., to be U.S. Surgeon General - A cardiologist, Holsinger is the former chancellor of the University of Kentucky Medical Center. Most of Holsinger's career was spent with the Veteran's Health Administration, where he spent 26 years in various positions, including as chief of staff or director of several VA medical centers. He also served as undersecretary for health for the Department of Veterans Affairs. Holsinger's nomination must be confirmed by the U.S. Senate.
http://www.hhs.gov/news/press/2007pres/05/pr20070524d.html

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EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES

Director – Healthier Wisconsin Partnership Program (HWPP), Milwaukee, WI - HWPP is a program 
of the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW) and the MCW Consortium on Public and Community Health that funds 
community-academic partnerships with the goal of improving the health of the residents of Wisconsin.  To-date, 
approximately $17 million has been awarded by HWPP to 78 community-medical school projects across the state 
focused on community-based health education and promotion initiatives. They will begin reviewing applications on 
June 4 and will continue our review until the position is filled.  Please review a full description of responsibilities and 
application guidelines at http://www.mcw.edu/display/router.asp?docid=9383

Program Coordinator (2 Positions) – Learn & Serve America, Washington, DC - Positions open 
until May 31 - The Corporation for National and Community Service (the Corporation) is a Federal Government 
corporation charged with the oversight, administration, and management of all programs defined in Public Law 103-82, 
the National and Community Service Trust Act of 1993. The Corporation offers grants for national service programs 
that meet human and health, educational, environmental and public safety needs in the United States. Its Senior 
Corps, AmeriCorps, and Learn and Serve America programs promote the ethic of service and help solve critical 
community problems in every state, many Indian tribes, and most U.S. territories. As a result, hundreds of thousands 
of Americans are joining forces to address community needs in education, homeland security, housing, health care, 
environmental protection, and disaster relief. Job Announcement Numbers: 07-065 (Higher Education) and 07-066 
(Knowledge Management). http://jobsearch.usajobs.opm.gov/

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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

 Advancing Public Health Practice and Policy Solutions – Deadline: June 6, 2007 – 
This Robert Wood Johnson Foundation solicitation seeks proposals for projects that will discover, implement, 
evaluate or disseminate practical and replicable solutions related to the following topics: 1. public health laws, 
regulations or policies; 2. public health advocacy or communications; and 3. engaging hard-to-reach and/or 
high-risk populations. http://www.rwjf.org/applications/solicited/cfp.jsp?ID=19849&c=EMC-FA141

 Focus on Responding to Emergency/Disaster Relief Grant – Deadline: July 1, 2007 – 
The American Psychological Foundation is seeking proposals for programs for Raymond A. and Rosalee G. Weiss 
Research and Program grant to support psychology-based programs that respond to emergencies or disaster 
relief. Up to $20,000 will be available for projects. http://forms.apa.org/apf/grants/

 Supporting Innovation in Health and Health Care – Deadline: July 10, 2007 – The 
Local Initiative Funding Partners Program is a partnership program between the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation 
and local grant-makers to fund promising, original projects to significantly improve the health of vulnerable 
people in their communities. http://www.rwjf.org/applications/solicited/cfp.jsp?ID=19831&c=EMC-FA144

 Fresh Ideas: Improving the Health of Immigrant and Refugee Communities – 
Deadline: July 13, 2007 – Today, more than 30 million immigrants and refugees live in the United States. They 
often have high rates of chronic health problems, due at least in part to difficulties they have getting appropriate 
social and health services. Language barriers, lack of education and cultural differences sometimes make it harder 
for immigrants and refugees to obtain culturally appropriate services, outreach or other information that could help 
them live healthier lives.  http://www.rwjf.org/applications/solicited/cfp.jsp?ID=19480&c=EMC-FA144

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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

2007 Innovation in Prevention Awards – Deadline: June 29, 2007 – The awards seek to
identify and celebrate organizations that have implemented innovative and creative chronic disease prevention and health promotion programs. To nominate a program or obtain additional information on the 2007 Innovation in Prevention Awards please visit http://www.prevent.org/awards2007.

2008-09 Packer Policy Fellowships: An Australian-American Health Policy Fellowship Program – Deadline: August 15, 2007 – The Packer Policy Fellowships offer a unique opportunity for outstanding, mid-career U.S. professionals--academics, physicians, decision makers in managed care and other private health care organizations, federal and state health officials, and journalists--to spend up to 10 months in Australia conducting research and working with leading Australian health policy experts on issues relevant to both countries. http://www.commonwealthfund.org/fellowships/fellowships_list.htm?attrib_id=9158

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CALLS FOR PAPERS & PRESENTATIONS

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CCPH's CALLS FOR PAPERS & PRESENTATIONS PAGE

Call for Abstracts: 2007 National Prevention and Health Promotion Summit – Deadline: June 11, 2007 – The summit takes place November 27-29, 2007 in Washington, DC. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will host this 2007 Summit. This groundbreaking event will unite health professionals, business entrepreneurs, and government leaders at all levels who are dedicated to health promotion, chronic disease prevention, health preparedness, birth defects, disabilities, genomics, and wellness. http://www.cdc.gov/cochp/conference/index.htm

Call for Abstracts: South East Asia and Oceania Health Impact Assessment Conference – Deadline: June 18, 2007 – The conference takes place November 7-9, 2007 in Sydney, Australia. Abstracts for presentations and posters are invited under the following streams: health impact assessment in practice; health, community wellbeing and sustainability; creating environments for health; liveable urban communities, and working with other sectors. http://www.hia2007.com

Call for Papers: Special Issue on International Community Psychology – Deadline: June 30, 2007 – The purposes of this special issue for the American Journal of Community Psychology are twofold: (a) to publish some of the best works in community psychology outside of America, and (b) to promote collaborative exchanges and synergy among international scholars and practitioners. For more information, contact Paul Toro at paul.toro@wayne.edu

 Call for Papers: Special Journal Issue on Ethical Considerations in Community-Based 
Participatory Research (CBPR) – Deadline: November 1, 2007 – The Journal of Empirical Research on 
Human Research Ethics is inviting papers which explore ethical issues in CBPR, including from international perspectives. 
Contributions may include qualitative or quantitative studies (including case studies and those involving CBPR) and 
reviews of empirical literature.  To view the complete call for papers, visit the “what’s new” column at www.ccph.info.  
For additional information, email ccphirb@u.washington.edu.

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PUBLICATIONS

CCPH Members receive discounts on publications by Wiley/Jossey-Bass Publishers, Johns Hopkins University Press, West Virginia University Press, Fieldstone Alliance, and Community-Campus Partnerships for Health

Critical Issues in Global Health

Critical Issues in Global Health is an outstanding compendium of knowledge and thought--from a distinguished panel of internationally renowned medical and public health experts--that offers insight into the most important health issues facing our world's populations. The volume's individual contributors represent a wide range of prestigious health organizations and institutions including the World Health Organization, National Academy of Sciences, Kellogg and Rockefeller Foundations, U.S. Centers for Disease Control, and the American Public Health Association. Edited by C. Everett Koop, Clarence E. Pearson, and M. Roy Schwarz, these never-before-published essays explore the future of international health and explain what will be required in order to provide adequate health and medical care worldwide, especially for underdeveloped countries.

CCPH Members receive a 15% discount when ordering this publication and all Jossey-Bass publications through the CCPH website!

Ordering information: http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/books.html

We Make Change: Community Organizers Talk About What They Do – and Why

This book explores the world of community organizing through the voices of real people working in the field, in small towns and city neighborhoods--women and men of different races and economic backgrounds, ranging in age from those in their twenties to those in their sixties. Fourteen in-depth profiles tell the life stories of a cross-section of the diverse people who choose the life of an organizer. Other chapters, focused on issues of organizing, are tapestries of experience woven from the 81 interviews the authors conducted.

Ordering information: http://www.vanderbiltuniversitypress.com/bookdetail.asp?book_id=4096

Excess Baggage: Leveling the Load and Changing the Workplace

Author Ellen Rosskam describes the widespread insecurity that affects check-in workers, linked to structural and cultural hegemony, modern management practices, and modern management myths. Through her pioneering research, she provides valuable information on the untold hazards associated with various service sector jobs, largely performed by women. These are jobs known to produce increased job strain that manifests as heart disease, psychological distress, musculoskeletal disorders, depression, burnout, and other physical and psychological health effects. By applying an action-oriented approach, Excess Baggage makes a convincing case for taking a holistic approach to viewing jobs, considering them as "entire work systems" and not merely as a series of individual factors. Rosskam makes an eloquent plea for involving workers in organizational decision-making and a convincing case for using the collective voice as a critical key for improving working conditions.

Ordering information: http://www.baywood.com/books/previewbook.asp?id=978-0-89503-360-4

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NEW & RENEWING MEMBERS

April 2007

Please Join Us in Welcoming the Following New CCPH Members

~ joined between April 1-30, 2007

E-Members

Khainza, Becky, Najja Community Orphanage and Widows Initiative, Kampala, Uganda

Korda, Holly, University of New England, Community Programs, Biddeford, ME

Le Clair, Jill, Humber College Institute, Toronto, ON, Canada

Polifroni, Carol, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT

Richardson, Lynne, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY

Individual Premium Members

Arrieta, Martha, University of South Alabama, Mobile, AL

Bryan, Norman, University of South Alabama, Mobile, AL

Cassady, Diana, University of California, Davis, CA

Chen, Roxanna, Public Health - Seattle & King County, Seattle, WA

Clark, Vincent, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY

Corzine, Lorna, Nipissing University, North Bay, ON, Canada

Desmarais, Annette, University of Regina, Regina, SK, Canada

Dorsey-Smith, Cynthia, Jackson Heart Study/Jackson State University, Jackson, MS

Egdorf, Thomas, Ontario AIDS Network, Toronto, ON, Canada

Emmons, Karen, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA

Engle, Sam Marie, Emory University, Atlanta, GA

Fergus, Stevenson, Kingston, ON, Canada

Gagnier, Cheryl, Families First Edmonton, Edmonton, AB, Canada

Garvin, Cheza, Public Health - Seattle & King County, Seattle, WA

Gray, Freddie, Omaha-Urban Area Health Education Center, Omaha, NE

Green, James, Williams & Associates, Inc, St. Louis, MO

Harris, Amy, Abramson Center for the Future of Health, Houston, TX

Henry, Rachael, Institute of Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Sydney, Australia

Howard, Robert, Akron Children's Hospital, Ravenna, OH

Hurlock, Debbie, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada

Ivesdal, Irene Asheim, Sandnes Kommune, Sandnes, Norway

Jackson, Courtney, University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, OK

Kassam, Rosemin, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Kennedy, Betty, Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, LA

Knoll, Sara, Burness Communications, Bethesda, MD

Lal, Sonika, Canadian Treatment Action Council, Toronto, ON, Canada

Langille, Lynn, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada

Larkin, June, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

Loppie, Charlotte, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada

Lubeck, Kelly, New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY

Major, Jenn, Toronto, ON, Canada

Manuelito, Brenda, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

McArthur, Kara, Abramson Center for the Future of Health, Albuquerque, NM

McCrimmon, Janet, Family Service Association of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

McLaren, Laurie, Nipissing University, North Bay, ON, Canada

McMillan, Jane, St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, NS, Canada

Munoz, Arlene, Spanish Community Center, Landisville, NJ

Murphy, Paula, Tobias House Attendant Care, Toronto, ON, Canada

Narushima, Miya, Brock University, St. Catharines, ON, Canada

O'Hagan, Patricia, Douglas College, New Westminster, BC, Canada

O'Reilly, Claire, Ontario Women's Directorate, Toronto, ON, Canada

Oswald, Sharon, Greater Twin Cities United Way, Minneapolis, MN

Peterson, Yasenka, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN

Renick, Oren, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX

Ressler, Glory, Early Childhood Community Development Centre, St. Catharines, ON, Canada

Ronaldi, Vincenza, Ministry of Health Promotion, Toront, ON, Canada

Schumaker, Alice, University of Nebraska Medical Center/University of Nebraska, Omaha Masters in Public Health Program, Omaha, NE

Sheppard, Kim, Cambrian College, Sudbury, ON, Canada

St. Pierre, Tena, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA

Stampley, Cheryl, Chester, VA

Starck, Tanis, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA

Sydnor, Kim, Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD

Threadgill, Paula, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS

Trujillo, Steve, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada

Tschirren, Jessica, University of Nebraska Medical Center/University of Nebraska, Omaha Masters in Public Health Program, Omaha, NE

Tumiel-Berhalter, Laurene, University at Buffalo, State University of New York, Buffalo, NY

Waite, Nancy, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada

Wedzin, Nora, Tlicho Community Services Agency, Rae-Edzo, NT, Canada

Yadrick, Kathleen, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS

Zoe-Martin, Cecilia, Tlicho Community Services Agency, Rae-Edzo, NT, Canada

Student Members

Adeyemi, Oluyemisi, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI

Baete Kenyon, DenYelle, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN

Baker, Lannesse, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN

Bonython-Ericson, Sharon, The University of Sydney, Yarrabah, Australia

Carpenter, Sara, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

Chum, Antony, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

Dozzi, Karla, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

Ferrari, Manuela, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

Fortin, Rebecca, University of Toronto, Pickering, ON, Canada

Freeland, Lance, University of New Mexico Prevention Research Center, Albuquerque, NM

Gaulden, Daphne, University of Oklahoma , Oklahoma City, OK

Globerman, Jason, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

Hasford, Julian, Wilfrid Laurier University, Brampton, ON, Canada

Hileeto, Mariana, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada

Hompoth, Jennifer, University of Toronto, Hamilton, ON, Canada

Jackson, Fatimah, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada

James, Pamela, University of Washington, Lake Stevens, WA

Killing, Suzanne, Wilfried Laurier University, Tavistock, ON, Canada

Knight, Fiona, Ryerson University, Toronto, ON, Canada

MacDonald, Susan, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

Maskill, Jamie, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

McKague, Angela, Sudbury & District Health Unit, Sudbury, ON, Canada

Melin, Crystal, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

Mooi, Carolyn, University of Waterloo, Richmond Hill, ON, Canada

Powell, Tracy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC

Reeve, Kate, McMaster University, Toronto, ON, Canada

Roberts, Anastasia Olaide, Shiloh Foundation, London, United Kingdom

Rossiter, Kate, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

Rubio, Frances, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada

Sandusky, Ebony, University of Michigan, Romulus, MI

Saunders, Nicholas, University of Brighton, Brighton, United Kingdom

Secor-Turner, Molly, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN

Thomisee, Karen, Context Journal & Emory University, Atlanta, GA

Organizational Members

Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY

Jackson, Reverand Christine

Canadian Institutes of Health Research – Institute of Aboriginal Peoples’ Health, Victoria, BC, Canada

Reading, Jeffrey

Georgia Health Policy Center, Atlanta, GA

Landers, Glenn

Lance Armstrong Foundation, Austin, TX

Gazo, Brandy

Neal, Claire

Potts, Sue

Rechis-Oelker, Ruth

Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI

Fink, Greg

Portland State University, Portland, OR

Winett, Liana

Public Responsibility in Med & Research, Boston, MA

Bouley Eckel, Marcy

Diemand, Mariellen

Levine-Fried, Jen

Meade, Anne

South Texas Health Research Center, San Antonio, TX

Fornos, Laura

Villareal, Cynthia Lizette

St Joseph's Health Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada

Marcolin, AnnMarie

Toronto People with AIDS Foundation, Toronto, ON, Canada

Dhebar, Meera

University of California, Oakland, CA

Plumb, Marj

University of Charleston, Charleston, WV

Bowyer, David

Festa, Laura

Lewis, Donna

University of Connecticut Health Center, East Hartford, CT

Ferris, Ann

McDermott, Kathy

Storey, Elieen

University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY

Brockopp, Dorothy

Kirschling, Jane

Stanhope, Marcia

Williams, Carolyn

University of Michigan Health System, Ann Arbor, MI

Aaronson, Susan

DuRussel-Weston, Jean

Fitzgerald, Cathy

Palma-Davis, LaVaughn

University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE

Foral, Liz

University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB, Canada

Kealey, Linda

MacKinnon, Robert

McGibbon, Chris

Paterson, Barbara

van den Hoonaard, Deborah

University of North Carolina at Wilmington, Wilmington, NC

Ennen, Kathleen

Heinrich, Carol

University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada

Cousins, Brad

Flynn, Robert

Vincent, David

Canada, Young, Marta

University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC

Messias, DeAnne

Mitchem, Stephanie

Weber, Lynn

Wyatt, Carol

WE ACT for Environmental Justice, New York, NY

Shepard, Peggy

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Thank You to these Renewing Members for their Continued Support!

~ joined between April 1-30, 2007

E-Members

Clapham, Kathleen, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia

Daneman, Barry, University of Missouri-Kansas, Kansas City, MO

De Maeseneer, Jan, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

Grob, Rachel, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY

Howe, Melana, West River Health Services, Hettinger, ND

Kallenberg, Gene, University of California, San Diego, CA

Lefkowitz Jr., Lewis, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN

Michaels, Margo, Education Network to Advance Cancer Clinical Trials, Silver Spring, MD

Phelan, Elizabeth, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

Record, John, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Springfield, IL

Schuster, Mark, RAND, Santa Monica, CA

Stetz, Kathy, Seattle Pacific University, Seattle, WA

Thetford, Lois, Puget Sound Neighborhood Health Centers, Seattle, WA

Individual Premium Members

Antoine-LaVigne, Donna, Jackson Heart Study - Jackson State University, Jackson, MS

Benz Scott, Lisa, State University of New York, Stony Brook, NY

Brady, Jan, Michigan State University, Brighton, MI

Cashman, Suzanne, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA

Dykeman, Margaret, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB, Canada

Elstad, Pamela, Lake Superior College, Duluth, MN

Finnegan, John, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN

Fleisher, Linda, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Cheltenham, PA

Goldstein, Ellen, University of California, San Francisco, CA

Hemminger, Laura, University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey School of Public Health, New Brunswick, NJ

Hull, Pamela, Tennessee State University, Nashville, TN

Lewis, LaVonna, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA

Mowry, Donald, University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire, Eau Claire, WI

Pappas, Phillip, Community Human Services, Pittsburgh, PA

Parkin, Rebecca, George Washington University, Washington, DC

Perez, Leda, Community Voices, Miami, FL

Proulx-Curry, Pamela, Wisconsin Campus Compact, Kenosha, WI

Ramsey, Ruth, Dominican University of California, San Rafael, CA

Redman, Richard, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

Reid, Colleen, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Reynolds, Pamela, Gannon University, Erie, PA

Shaver, Constance, Horizons, Inc., Milwaukee, WI

Sia, Irene, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN

Sisk, Rebecca, Methodist College of Nursing, Peoria, IL

Stephenson, Andrea, Glades Initiative, Inc., Belle Glade, FL

Toof, Robin, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, MA

Tripp-Reimer, Toni, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA

White, Ann Marie, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY

Willaert, Anne, Minnesota State Colleges & Universities, Mankato, MN

Zuvekas, Ann, Annandale, VA

Student Members

Levesque, Peter, Institute of Population Health, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada

Organizational Members

AIDS Communities of Toronto (ACT), Toronto, ON, Canada

Greenspan, Nicole

Husbands, Winston

Lee, Erica

Maxwell, John

California State University, Fullerton, CA

Kim-Han, Jeannie

Community-University Health Care Center, Minneapolis, MN

McDonald, Colleen

Georgia Health Policy Center, Atlanta, GA

Minyard, Karen

Iowa State University, Ames, IA

Cordell, Carol

Welk, Greg

Wissink, Marsha

Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI

Dwyer, Jeffrey

Luz, Clare

Smith, Ann

Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI

Brown, Robert

Farrell, Patricia

Fitzgerald, Hiram

McNall, Miles

Murray State University Count, Murray, KY

Maldaner, Loretta

The Ohio State University Medical Center, Columbus, OH

Dillard, Wanda

Friedman, Jerry

Paskett, Electra

Partners Three Consulting Company, Minneapolis, MN

Gust, Susan

Portland State University, Portland, OR

Farquhar, Stephanie

Maty, Siobhan

McBride, Leslie

South Texas Health Research Center, San Antonio, TX

Aguilar, Christine

Mika, Virginia

University of Akron, Akron, OH

Chima, Cinda

Hudak, Sandra

Marino, Deborah

Taylor, Evelyn

University of California, Oakland, CA

Collins, Natalie

Kavanaugh-Lynch, Marion

Price, Walter

University of California- San Francisco, Fresno, CA

Aguilar, Mark

Cantu, Diana

Dominguez, Bertha

Flores, Katherine

University of Detroit Mercy, Detroit, MI

Melon, Suzanne

Schneider Martin, Karen

Steiman, H. Robert

Zarkowski, Pamela

University of Massachusetts Count, Shrewsbury, MA

Huppert, Michael

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

Guthrie, Barbara

Loveland-Cherry, Carol

Pohl, Joanne

Univ.of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC

Ammerman, Alice

Benedict, Salli

Hunter, Wanda

Sommers, Janice

University of North Carolina At Wilmington, Wilmington, NC

Adams, Virginia

Canty-Mitchell, Janie

University of North Florida, Jacksonville, FL

Kruger, Barbara

Loriz, Lillia

University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX

Tiernan, Kathy

Walsdorf, Rebecca

University of Washington, Seattle, WA

Cruver, Michelle

Ensign, Josephine

Jundt, Michaelann

Vaughn, Rachel

Widener University, Chester, PA

Dowshen, Arlene

Krouse, Anne

Pickron-Davis, Marcine

Rasin, Joyce

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