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November 9, 2007
Volume IX ● Issue 20
Message From Our Program Director
News From CCPH
Membership Matters
Upcoming Events
Announcements
Employment Opportunities
Grants Alert!
Awards, Fellowships & Scholarships
Calls for Papers & Presentations
Publications
Archives
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Newsletter Co-Editors
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Annika L.R. Sgambelluri
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©2007 Community-Campus
Partnerships for Health
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attention community
partners!
Join the Community Partner
Listserv and Learn About the Mentoring and Policy Workgroups
Dial into Free Overview
Conference Calls on November 13 and December 11
Click here for details
Are you maximizing your Federal Work-Study funds
for community service and service-learning?
With the U.S. Department of Education showing signs of tightening
enforcement of Federal Work-Study (FWS) regulations, now is the time to
learn as much as possible about how to meet or exceed the federally
mandated requirement that 7% of all FWS funds go toward community service
positions. What constitutes community service under the regulations? Why
should campuses increase community service FWS, and how can they do so
without incurring huge administrative and other costs? How can community
service/service-learning staff overcome inter-departmental barriers to
create effective programs? How have campuses with successful community
service FWS programs put these programs in place? What tools are available
to help make this process easier?
Campus Compact's new online publication, Earn, Learn, and Serve: Getting
the Most from Community Service Federal Work-Study, answers these questions
and many more. Edited by FWS expert Erin Bowley, this resource offers a
detailed discussion of the regulations guiding FWS, principles of good
practice, a guide to partnering with Financial Aid, and numerous campus
models that span institutional type, size, and geography. Also included are
an essay from Robert Davidson of the Corporation for National and Community
Service, a developmental matrix to help in planning programs, and a host of
hands-on tools such as applications, evaluation forms, time sheets, and
reflection tools.
Funded by the Corporation for National and Community Service through a
grant from Learn and Serve America, this new resource is available free
online at http://www.compact.org/fws/.
Reducing Class Size May Be More Cost-Effective
than Most Medical Interventions
Reducing
the number of students per classroom in U.S. primary schools may be more
cost-effective than most public health and medical interventions, according
to a study by researchers at Columbia University Mailman School of Public
Health and the Virginia Commonwealth University. The study indicates that
class-size reductions would generate more quality-adjusted life-year gains
per dollar invested than the majority of medical interventions.
The findings were published in the November issue of the American Journal
of Public Health: Health and Economic Benefits of Reducing the Number of
Students per Classroom in US Primary Schools by Peter Muennig and Steven H.
Woolf, Am J Public Health 2007;97 2020-2027. Abstract: http://www.ajph.org/cgi/content/abstract/97/11/2020?etoc
The researchers estimated the health and economic effects of reducing class
sizes from 2225 students to 1317 students in kindergarten through grade 3
nationwide, based on an intervention tested in Project STAR (Student
Teacher Achievement Ratio), a large multi-school randomized trial that
began in 1985. Project STAR is considered the highest quality long-term
experiment to date in the field of education.
The study shows that a student graduating from high school after attending
smaller-sized classes gains an average of 1.7 quality-adjusted life-years
and generates a net $168,431 in lifetime revenue. "Higher earnings and
better job quality enhance access to health insurance coverage, reduce
exposure to hazardous work conditions, and provide individuals and families
with the necessary resources to move out of unfavorable neighborhoods and
to purchase goods and services," said Dr. Peter A. Muennig, assistant
professor of Health Policy and Management at the Mailman School.
"Regardless of class size, the net effect of graduating from high
school is roughly equivalent to taking 20 years of bad health off of your
life."
When targeted to low-income students, the estimated savings would increase
to $196,000 per additional graduate. "This is because low-income
students seem to benefit more from the additional attention afforded by
small classes," noted Dr. Muennig. "Because we focused on a
relatively expensive intervention and examined outcomes over a range of
values, our results should provide a conservative framework for evaluating
this and other interventions as long-term data on educational interventions
become more plentiful," he commented.
The performance of students in the U.S. has been declining relative to the
performance of students in other countries. With health costs soaring and
student performance falling, the United States is in jeopardy of losing its
economic dominance.
The findings not only raise issues of whether investments in social
determinants of health can be more cost-effective than investments in
conventional medical care, "but more intriguing still, also bring up
the idea that each dollar invested in education could also potentially
produce other long-term returns," observed Dr. Muennig. He noted that
further analysis will refine models and produce more-precise estimates, but
"these findings do point to the importance of looking more broadly at
the options available for improving health outcomes including those outside
the boundaries of clinical medicine."
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MESSAGE FROM OUR PROGRAM DIRECTOR
Community-based
participatory research (CBPR) is gaining acceptance among growing numbers
of funding agencies, researchers and community groups. Yet these numbers do not tell the full
story. Despite the most honorable
of intentions to implement authentic CBPR partnerships through shared power
structures such as co-principal investigators from both the community and
the academy, even the best-laid plans can easily go to waste by an
institutional review board (IRB) that does not understand CBPR. IRBs are specially constituted review
boards designed to protect the welfare of human subjects recruited to
participate in biomedical or behavioral research. It is increasingly
apparent that the IRB system for assuring ethical research is
insufficient when applied to CBPR.
IRBs, designed to protect the rights and welfare of individual study participants, are
less equipped to protect the rights and welfare of communities involved in research.
To
address this concern, CCPH and the National Center for Bioethics
in Research and Health Care at Tuskegee University (also known
as the Bioethics Center) co-sponsored a 6-part educational conference
call series on IRBs and Research Ethics in the first half of 2007.
We hoped that this call series would raise more awareness about
the importance of protecting communities involved in research
– not just individuals – and determine what kinds of programs
or resources would most effectively bridge this gap. Having reviewed what we learned from the
call series, including feedback
from participants, we are excited to announce a new course
of action for our work in this area, in partnership with the Bioethics
Center. Today, we are launching both a web
page dedicated to CBPR & Research Ethics, as well as a
CCPH Research Ethics Listserv. In January, we will convene the
first meeting of a Research Ethics Workgroup comprised of IRB
administrators, committee members, community-based researchers
and community members who will collaborate in developing a CBPR
training curriculum for IRBs.
The curriculum is intended to help prepare IRBs to review
CBPR proposals.
Without
a comprehensive understanding of CBPR, IRBs1 frequently try to
“fit a square peg into a round hole”: that is, apply a traditional
biomedical model of research to CBPR.2 As a result, CBPR
projects are often asked to change core components of what makes their
research community-based and participatory, so that it morphs to the IRB’s
understanding of the term “research.” What happens after that varies,
according to the tenacity of the research team and the flexibility of the
IRB. Some are able to sit down with their IRB administrator and explain the
key tenets of CBPR, which can then lead to the co-development of innovative
practices that meet the needs and requirements of both the IRB and the
research team. One such example is
a research team that got IRB permission to submit iterative changes to its
research protocol as its community steering committee decided upon the most
appropriate study protocol for their community through a series of
meetings.
Other
research teams, however, are not so lucky – their appeals to the IRB using
a similar strategy of explaining the philosophy behind CBPR and the reason
why this approach is still valid yields no change in the IRB’s initial
decision not to approve the project. As a result, they are forced to
continue the project as a community-based research study that cannot report
the results in academic journals (an outlet esteemed by the academy and
policymakers), change the entire nature of the study, or abandon it
altogether. One of the most high-profile cases illustrating this tension
between traditional biomedical institutions and CBPR projects is the PHAT
Project, a CBPR study that was denied approval from the University of
California – San Francisco IRB.3
The
frequency with which these issues have come to the fore has become a
growing topic of concern among CBPR practitioners, making it a theme that
has emerged again and again on the CBPR listserv and at conferences in the
U.S. and Canada. This was evident at one session on CBPR partnerships at
this week’s American Public Health Association conference, where three out
of five presenters specifically mentioned the challenges they experienced
with getting the IRB to understand the unique characteristics and needs of
a CBPR project. One university even told a Principal Investigator that
unless the application was altered so that the Principal Investigator was
the sole decision maker, they would not approve the application.
At
the same time, while the IRB world is not wholly informed about CBPR, there
appears to be growing pockets of interest. There was standing room only at
a session titled “Finding Common Ground: CBPR and the IRB” that I
co-facilitated with CCPH Senior Consultant Nancy Shore at this year’s
Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research (PRIM&R)’s Social,
Behavioral, and Educational Research Conference. IRB professionals were
curious and interested in learning more about how to apply CBPR principles
to their reviews. The session led
to an in-depth discussion on what could be done to bridge the gap between
the worlds of IRBs and CBPR partnerships. As a follow-up, PRIM&R will
be holding a plenary session on CBPR and research ethics at their December
conference, moderated by Nancy Shore (for more information, visit www.primr.org).
When
we reflected on all that we have heard and learned from our members and
colleagues at CBPR and research ethics conference sessions (including the
2006 and 2007 CCPH conferences), CBPR workshops, and the IRBs and Research
Ethics call series discussions and evaluations, the way forward became
clear. By engaging IRB
administrators, committee members, community-based researchers and
community members in collaboratively developing a training curriculum for
IRBs on CBPR and the taking it “out on the road” to IRBs and conferences
attended by IRBs, we will go beyond the simple goal of raising greater
awareness about CBPR. In the process, we will foster an opportunity for
knowledge exchange, greater dialogue, and understanding among these groups to
learn more each other’s goals and objectives, which will help them have a
greater understanding as to why CBPR protocols are structured the way they
are, and why IRBs make the decisions they do. In short, we will learn about the context that each other are
coming from and work more effectively together.
In
this way, the concept of building bridges and greater understanding between
IRBs and CBPR partnerships is not so different from what is needed to
develop and sustain strong, effective CBPR partnerships between communities
and academics: trust, communication, education, and dialogue. We hope that
you will join CCPH and the Bioethics Center as we embark upon this journey,
and work to make that bridge a reality.
To
join the CCPH Research Ethics Listserv, go to:
https://mailman1.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/ccph-ethics
To
join the IRB training workgroup, please contact Kristine@u.washington.edu.
The workgroup will start to meet in January 2008.
Visit
the CBPR & Research Ethics webpage here.
Notes & Citations:
1 There are IRBs located within traditional biomedical research institutions and universities,
and IRBs located within the community – as well as private IRBs. For the purpose of this article,
the term "IRB" refers to those located within traditional biomedical research institutions and
universities.
2 Flicker S et al. (2007). Ethical Dilemmas in Community-Based Participatory Research:
Recommendations for Institutional Review Boards. Journal of Urban Health, e-pub
(DOI 10.1007/s11524-007-9165-7).
3 Malone RE et al. (2006). "It's like Tuskegee in reverse": a case study of ethical tensions in
institutional board review of community-based participatory research. Am J Public Health.
96(11):1914-1919.
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NEWS FROM CCPH
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Join the Community Partner Listserv and Workgroups!
Are you a community member, community partner
or community-academic liaison interested in connecting with your peers to
build greater capacity, support each other in your work, and strengthen the
collective network of community partners engaging in community-higher
education partnerships? If so, please consider joining the Community
Partner Listserv and getting involved in the Community Partner Workgroups,
established as a direct result of the national Community Partner Summit
convened in 2006 by CCPH.
Listserv:
To
subscribe, go to: https://mailman1.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/communitypartnerlistserv
Workgroups: If
you’re interested in learning more about the work groups and possibly
getting involved, dial into one of two toll-free conference calls that will
provide an overview of the Mentoring and Policy Workgroups. No
registration is required.
November 13 at 1:00 pm PST/4:00 pm EST –
1-800-791-2345, Code: 13511
December 11 at 1:00 pm PST/4:00 pm EST –
1-800-791-2345, Code: 13511
For more information: Please visit the Community
Partner Summit webpage at http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/cps.html
or contact Kristine Wong, CCPH program director, at kristine@u.washington.edu
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Call for
Nominations for 2008 CCPH Annual Award
Nominations due
February 12, 2008
The CCPH Award recognizes exemplary partnerships between communities and higher
educational institutions that build on each other’s strengths to improve
higher education, civic engagement, and the overall health of communities.
The intent of the award is to highlight the power and potential of
community-campus partnerships as a strategy for social justice. The award
recognizes partnerships that strive to achieve the systems and policy
changes needed to overcome the root causes of health, social and economic
equalities.
The 2008 award
will be presented before an international audience of community and campus
partners at the Community-University Exposition, May
4-7, 2008 in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. CCPH is a core sponsor of the conference, whose theme is
“Community-University Partnerships: Connecting for Change.”
Award nominations are due February
12, 2008. Partnerships must nominate
themselves, may be from any country or nation, and need not be members of CCPH.
For more information, visit the CCPH Award website at http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/awards.html
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CCPH Publication
Sale!
Get a 20%
discount on ALL CCPH publications ordered before January 31,
or while
supplies last!
See our
website at www.ccph.info for more
information!
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The Sleeping Lady Retreat Center is an ideal site for
reflective learning.
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CCPH 11th Summer Service-Learning Institute
July 25-28, 2008
Cascade Mountains of Washington State
Application
Deadline: April 10, 2008
Plan NOW to attend the CCPH
11th Summer 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.
Download the application online at: http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/servicelearning.html
View the agenda,
presentations and handouts from the 10th institute held July
20-23, 2007, visit: http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/pastpresentations.html
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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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MEMBERSHIP
MATTERS
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Announcing CCPH Membership Rewards!
Are you already a member of CCPH? In October, CCPH members received a personalized email on
rewards and giveaways for upgrading your membership and referring new CCPH members before January
31st, 2008. Check your recent emails from CCPH if you missed this special announcement or contact our
membership coordinator, Cate Clegg for more information at cleggc@u.washington.edu!
Not yet a member of CCPH? Visit our homepage at www.ccph.info for details on rewards and
giveaways when you join CCPH before January 31st 2008!
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Are You Enjoying ALL of the Benefits
CCPH Membership Offers?
 Recruit a New Member to CCPH Today and
Reap Rewards!
From
now until January 31, 2008, you will get 2 free months appended to your own current membership for each
new member you recruit to CCPH!
You’ll also be entered into a drawing to win a $100 gift certificate for the CCPH publishing partner of
your choice! For more information
on our publishing partners, visit
http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/books.html
To
refer a colleague to join CCPH, please send them to: http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/members.html
**Please note: If you choose to refer a colleague to join CCPH, be sure to
have them indicate on their membership application that they have been
referred by you to join CCPH. That
way we can be sure to get you your 2 free months of membership (or more
depending on the number of new members you recruit!) and enter your name
into the drawing! The drawing for the gift certificate will take place in
early February 2008.
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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!
(See above for information on CCPH Membership Rewards!)
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FEATURED MEMBER
Noilyn
Abesamis-Mendoza
The latest CCPH featured member is Noilyn Abesamis-Mendoza, the Deputy Director
of Outreach & Programs for the New York University (NYU) Center for the Study of
Asian American Health.
In addition to her work at NYU and with other community programs, one of Noilyn’s many
accomplishments includes co-founding the Kalusugan Coalition (KC). KC is a
multidisciplinary community coalition that seeks to create a unified voice to improve the
health of the Filipino American community in the New York/New Jersey area through network
and resource development, educational activities, research, community action, and advocacy.
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In her interview, Noilyn addresses the difficulties and successes
she has had with founding this unique coalition and supporting the growth
of KC. By developing KC, Noilyn has been able to address a critical health
need within her community and unite members from diverse backgrounds and
disciplines to address this need.
Noilyn discusses her belief that successful health promotion
involves the creation of multifaceted partnerships across communities and
disciplines, “We do not believe that health promotion rests solely as the
responsibility of health workers. Since health is a confluence of the
social, environmental, political, and economic realities that we face, all
of us have a part in ensuring the health of the community.”
To read more about Noilyn’s work and thoughts about health and
community, read the full interview at: http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/featuredmember.html
To read about previous Featured Members, visit: http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/pastfeaturedmembers.html
Would you like to be a CCPH Featured Member? See
below for details….
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Having Trouble Accessing
CCPH Members-Only Website?
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 cleggc@u.washington.edu
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Would you like to be
a CCPH Featured Member?
Let the world know
about your partnership work! Email us at cleggc@u.washington.edu for details.
Read about Current CCPH Featured Noilyn
Abesamis-Mendoza 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
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Congratulations
to CCPH member Todd Barr, who is the new chair of the
board of directors of the Canadian Alliance for Community Service
Learning.
Todd writes, "I am honoured to serve as your
chair of CACSL for the next two years. These are encouraging and exciting
times in the field of community-academic engagement - with community
service-learning being no exception! I am located at the Trent
Centre for Community-Based
Education (TCCBE) in Peterborough, Ontario - working in close
partnership with Trent University and hundreds of local individuals and
organizations as an equitable third-party broker of community-academic
projects for healthy and sustainable development - mainly through the
vehicles of community-based research, community service-learning and
experiential education. Before
the TCCBE, I was quite involved with a recently completed
Community-University Research Alliance (CURA) project called Rural
Communities Impacting Policy (RCIP) in Nova Scotia, Canada.
Since joining the Steering Committee over the
summer, I have heard an increased call for strategic thinking as CACSL,
and the community service-learning (CSL) movement it serves, gain
momentum in Canada.
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Continuously understanding, discussing and promoting
what role the Alliance can play must be a top priority for remaining
relevant and, if deemed necessary, sustaining its work. I hope that
people will feel inspired to contribute what they can in articulating
this important
story.
With the above in mind, I look forward to your
candid engagement with me and hopefully with one another as we move into
the future together."
Todd can be reached by phone at 705-743-0523 and by email at toddbarr@trentu.ca
For more information about the Trent Centre, visit http://www.trentu.ca/academic/tccbe/
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Congratulations
to CCPH board-chair elect and CCPH Summer Service-Learning Institute mentor
Bobby Gottlieb for being awarded a Faculty
Fellowship for Youth from Massachusetts and Rhode Island Campus
Compacts. The purpose of the Fellowship is to develop the capacity
of colleges and universities to engage in service-learning programs that
address young people in their communities.
Bobby was funded to develop a partnership between
Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Public Health and the Boston
Public Health Commission's newly created Division of Adolescent Health.
The Fellowship will last 2 years, and will create an opportunity for
fellows to learn from one another, share experiences, curricula and other
resources. Bobby is a primary care internist at Brookside Community
Health Center, where she has worked since 1981. Read her full bio on the
CCPH board webpage at http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/boardmembers.html.
Bobby writes, "I am excited about the many partnerships,
collaborations and opportunities that this Fellowship will promote."
To learn more about the Fellowship visit: http://www.compact.org/ricompact/include/pdf/07_09_LSA_Faculty_Fellowship_RFP.pdf
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Congratulations
to CCPH board member Cynthia (Cee) Barnes-Boyd, for receiving the City
Partner Award, presented annually by the University of Illinois Alumni
Association and the University of Illinois-Chicago Chancellor. The Award was created in 1993 by a
committee of alumni volunteers and campus staff members to recognize
“those University of Illinois alumni who have gone on from University of
Illinois Chicago (UIC) to contribute to the vitality of the Chicago
metropolitan area in a special way.”
Cee directs the UIC Neighborhoods Initiative.
Learn more about the Award at
http://www.uiaa.org/chicago/awards/partner.html
Learn more about Cee on the CCPH Board Webpage at http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/boardmembers.html
Learn more about the UIC Neighborhoods Initiative at http://www.uic.edu/cuppa/gci/uicni/
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UPCOMING EVENTS
For details on these new
listings and all previously listed upcoming events, visit
CCPH’s
CONFERENCE PAGE
Join CCPH at these Upcoming Events!
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NOVEMBER & DECEMBER 2007
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November 13 and December 11
● Community
Partner Workgroup Overview Conference Calls
Are you a community member,
community partner or community-academic liaison interested in connecting
with your peers to build greater capacity, support each other in your work,
and strengthen the collective network of community partners engaging in
community-higher education partnerships? If so, please consider joining the
Community Partner Listserv and getting involved in the Community Partner
Workgroups, established as a direct result of the national Community
Partner Summit convened in 2006 by CCPH.
Listserv: To
subscribe, go to: https://mailman1.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/communitypartnerlistserv
Workgroups: If
you’re interested in learning more about the work groups and possibly
getting involved, dial into one of two toll-free conference calls that will
provide an overview of the Mentoring and Policy Workgroups. No
registration is required.
November 13 at 1:00 pm
PST/4:00 pm EST – 1-800-791-2345, Code: 13511
December 11 at 1:00 pm
PST/4:00 pm EST – 1-800-791-2345, Code: 13511
For more
information: Please
visit the Community Partner Summit webpage at http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/cps.html
or contact Kristine Wong, CCPH program director, at kristine@u.washington.edu
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May 4-7, 2008 ● CUexpo2008 –
Community-University Partnerships: Connecting for Change ● Victoria, BC, Canada
In
lieu of its own major conference in 2008, CCPH is
delighted to be a core sponsor of the third Community-University Exposition
(CUexpo). We encourage CCPH members to adopt the CUexpo conference “as
their own” and fully participate in it.
Session proposals are due November 15, 2007. For more
information, contact Mary O’Rourke, maireco@telus.net
or visit http://www.cuexpo08.ca/index.html.
The 2008 CCPH Award is being presented at the
conference. Award nominations are due February 12, 2008. For details, visit http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/awards.html
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JULY 2008
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July 25-28, 2008 ● CCPH’s 11th
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.
Application
deadline: April 10, 2008
Application materials are available at http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/servicelearning.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
November 15-17, 2007 · Association
for Moral Education · New York City, NY · http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/conference/ame/.
April 9-11, 2008 · 2008
Community Voices Freedoms Voice Conference & Soledad O’Brien Freedoms
Voice Awards Gala · Atlanta, GA · www.communityvoices.org
April 15-19, 2008 · The
Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting · Boston, MA · www.aag.org
May 6, 2008 · Rural
Medical Educators Conference · New Orleans, LA · http://www.nrharural.org/groups/sub/RME.html
June 1-3, 2008 · 2008
National Conference on Service and Volunteering · Atlanta, GA · www.volunteeringandservice.org
June 17-20, 2008 · 8th
International Conference on Diversity in Organizations, Communities and
Nations, École des Hautes Études Commerciales · Quebec, Canada · http://www.Diversity-Conference.com
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
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Report
Card Assesses Women’s Overall Health at the National and State Levels- Making the Grade on Women’s Health: A National and
State-by-State Report Card 2007 is the fourth in a series of triennial
reports to grade and rank each state based on 27 health status benchmarks
developed largely using goals set by the Healthy People 2010 initiative.
The report is a project of the National Women's Law Center and Oregon
Health and Science University and reflects the importance of improving
women’s health and the substantial commitment required to do so. Besides
grading and ranking each state on key benchmarks, the report evaluates
whether states have adopted 63 key policies important for women's health.
The report focuses on health insurance coverage and access, particularly
on policies to improve or weaken Medicaid coverage, and also measures
women's health by examining their economic security. http://hrc.nwlc.org
Association
of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) Report Examines Recruitment of
Physician Investigators- More than one-quarter of all job openings at
medical schools for physician clinical investigators in patient-oriented
research went unfilled in 2002-2004, according to a new analysis from the
AAMC. Through a survey of clinical department chairs at U.S. medical
schools, study authors examined the prevalence of open positions for
physician clinical investigators, as well as the rate at which those positions
were filled during a two-year period. More than half of the clinical
departments with openings for physician assistant professors reported
that they were not able to fill all the positions. Overall, 27 percent of
the open positions in the country went unfilled. http://www.aamc.org/juniorclinicalinvestigators
Special
Journal Issue Provides Updated Description of School Health Programs
Nationwide- The
October 2007 issue of the Journal of School Health provides a
comprehensive description of the 2006 School Health Policies and Program
Study, a national survey to assess school health policies and practices
at the state, district, school, and classroom levels. The special issue
features 11 articles that describe key school health policies and
practices across eight school health program components, including health
education, physical education and physical activity, health services,
mental health and social services, nutrition services and foods and
beverages available at school, healthy and safe school environment,
faculty and staff health promotion, and family and community involvement
in schools. http://www.ashaweb.org/journal_schoolhealth.html#shpps.
Journal
of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Paper Examines Academic
Medicine, Industry Relationships - Almost two-thirds of medical school
department chairs report having some form of personal relationship with commercial
industry, according to the results of a study released last week in JAMA.
The study examined the nature, extent, and consequences of the
relationships between academic institutions and industry. The authors
conclude, "Overall, institutional academic-industry relationships
are highly prevalent and underscore the need for their active disclosure
and management." Susan Ehringhaus, J.D., associate general counsel
for regulatory affairs in the AAMC Division of Biomedical and Health
Sciences Research coauthored the paper. http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/short/298/15/1779
Update
to Medical Student Debt Report Now Available- The Association of American
Medical Colleges has published an update to a 2004 report, "Medical
School Tuition and Young Physician Indebtedness." The
update-available for free online-revisits trends in medical student debt,
loan repayment, and physician income. http://www.aamc.org/publications
National
Academies Report on Encouragement of Minority Researchers- The National Academies have
released a resource on efforts to attract more minorities to careers in
research. "Understanding Interventions that Encourage Minorities to
Pursue Research Careers," is the pre-publication summary of a
workshop sponsored by the National Academies and the National Institutes
of Health in May. The workshop examined programs created at the
pre-college, college, and graduate school levels to encourage minorities
to pursue research careers, as well as factors that contributed to the
success of these programs. http://www.nationalacademies.org/moreworkshop
Pew
Partnership for Civic Change Website: Learning to Finish- Learning to Finish was
launched in October 2006 and aims to prepare eighth-graders for high
school and works to mobilize community resources to help children achieve
success. http://fconline.foundationcenter.org/pnd/10008794/learning
National
Cancer Institute’s Health Behavior Constructs: Theory, Measurement and
Research Website- This website offers definitions of major health behavior constructs
used in research in public health, health communications, nursing and
health psychology. It also offers
common measures used to access these constructs and descriptions of the
constructs’ theoretical backgrounds. http://cancercontrol.cancer.gov/brp/constructs/index.html
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EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES
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Project
Coordinator – School of Urban Planning,
McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada- The School of Urban Planning
announces a Project Coordinator position. The School - together
with academic and community partners - conducts community-based action
research on sustainable neighborhoods, large-scale urban projects,
community health and well-being, and public engagement with local
planning. The successful candidate will help manage a
Montreal-based community-university research partnership around the
neighborhood impacts of a new hospital complex, the MUHC Glen Campus.
This non-tenure track position is intended for a dynamic and engaged
individual who wishes to participate in an active program of research and
community development extending over 5 to 10 years. The project has
initial funding for five years through a SSHRC Community University
Research Alliance (CURA) grant; the one-year (renewable) position will
commence on January 2, 2008 or shortly thereafter. www.mcgill.ca/urbanplanning/mpc/
Tenured
Associate/Full Professor and Chair, Department of Health Sciences –Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts- Come join a new
interdisciplinary graduate program focused on urban public health at
Bouvé College! Bouvé College is
one of six colleges at Northeastern University and is housed in the new
Behrakis Health Sciences Center.
The College, comprised of three schools, Nursing, Pharmacy and
Health Professions, prepares students for health science careers in nine
undergraduate and 29 graduate majors. The comprehensive array of skills,
expertise and professions present in the Bouvé College of Health Sciences
are found at few institutions. The Chair will have demonstrated academic
and leadership experience; a strong record of funded research and
publications in urban and/or community health; and experience with
undergraduate and graduate teaching. Areas of expertise are open and
include epidemiology, biostatistics, health education, health
administration, health policy, health behavior, and/or health
disparities. The Chair will play a leadership role in enhancing Bouvé’s
standing in community and public health and further strengthening a
strong research oriented faculty.
Application materials are due February 1, 2008 and include: 1) CV,
2) letter of intent, 3) names and contact information of references, and
4) 2-3 published research articles that exemplify the applicant's most
recent work. Send application
materials to Dr. Hortensia Amaro at h.amaro@neu.edu.
Training Director – Boston, Philadelphia, Decatur, Il, Cincinnati, Oakland/San Francisco, Tacoma,
WA- Deadline: November 2, 2007 - The mission of the Education Network to Advance Cancer Clinical Trials
(ENACCT) is to identify, implement and validate innovative approaches to cancer clinical trials education, outreach,
and recruitment to improve outcomes for all. Through six community partnerships, ENACCT seeks to demonstrate the
feasibility and impact of local collaborative efforts to increase awareness about cancer clinical trials, enhance their
acceptability, and improve access to them. These partnerships are supported through cooperative agreements with
the Lance Armstrong Foundation and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. ENACCT seeks an
experienced professional to provide ongoing training to support the work of community partners in advancing knowledge
about cancer clinical trials.
http://www.enacct.org/
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GRANTS ALERT!
Listed below are  announcements only. To
view all previously listed grant alerts, please visit
CCPH's FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
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Junior Physician-Scientists Invited to
Apply for Doris Duke Clinical Scientist Development Award- Deadline:
November 14, 2007 - A program of the Doris Duke Charitable
Foundation the Doris Duke Clinical Scientist Development Award provides
grants to junior physician-scientists to facilitate their transition
to independent clinical research careers. Each U.S. accredited,
degree-granting institution -- which would encompass for that
institution all affiliated graduate schools, related hospitals, and
research institutes -- may nominate up to three candidates in any
disease area. Institutions are strongly encouraged to nominate women
and under-represented minorities in medicine. It is likely that
the foundation will award at least fifteen three-year grants in 2008 of
$125,000 per year in direct costs and $10,000 per year in indirect costs
to junior faculty level physician-scientists conducting clinical research
in any disease area. http://fconline.foundationcenter.org/pnd/10009355/ddcf
Community-University Research Alliance Grant-Deadline:
November 15, 2007 - The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
in Canada has awarded nearly $13 million through their
Community-University Research Alliance Program. CURA programs create partnerships between community organizations
and
postsecondary institutions which, through a process of ongoing
collaboration and mutual learning, will foster innovative research,
training and the creation of new knowledge in areas of importance for the
social, cultural and economic development of Canadian communities. Letters of intent for the next round
of CURA funding are due November 15, 2007.
http://www.sshrc-crsh.gc.ca/web/apply/program_descriptions/cura_e.asp
New Wisdom Research Initiative- Deadline:
November 19, 2007 - The Arete Initiative at the University of Chicago
has announced a $2 million research program on the nature and benefits of
wisdom. The three-year initiative is intended to generate high quality
research on wisdom and develop a network of young scholars and scientists
from a variety of disciplines. The program seeks to support highly
original, methodologically rigorous projects from a broad range of
disciplines: neuroscience, psychology, genetics, evolutionary biology,
game theory, computer science, sociology, anthropology, economics, philosophy,
ethics, education, human development, history, theology, and religion.
In 2008, the initiative will award up to twenty, two-year research
grants to scholars from institutions around the world who have
received their Ph.D. within the past ten years.
Principal Investigators for the winning projects will become members
of a Wisdom Research Network and will participate in two network meetings
over the course of their projects.
http://fconline.foundationcenter.org/pnd/10009360/wisdomresearch
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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
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Center for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC) Experience Applied Epidemiology Fellowship- Deadline: December 3, 2007 -The CDC Experience Applied
Epidemiology Fellowship is a one-year fellowship tailored for rising
third and fourth year medical students, designed to increase the pool of
physicians with a population health perspective. Eight competitively
selected fellows spend 10-12 months at the CDC offices in Atlanta, GA
where they carry out epidemiologic analyses in areas of public health
that interest them. Examples of previous and current areas of
concentration include viral diseases, cardiovascular health, birth
defects, STDs, food borne diseases, and air pollution and respiratory
health. http://www.cdcfoundation.org/thecdcexperience
Council
on Foundations Accepting Nominations for Critical Impact Awards
- Deadline: December 3, 2007 - The awards will recognize
grantmaking foundations that have demonstrated innovative leadership,
bold vision, and significant impact in advancing the common good --
locally, nationally, and/or globally -- through effective grantmaking.
The council seeks nominations of programs that: are funded by family,
independent, operating, public, or community foundations, or by
international or corporate grantmakers (either individually or in
collaboration with others); have documented evidence of enduring positive
impact on people, institutions, or communities; and have established
philanthropy as the innovators or architects of social change,
providing real philanthropic leadership. The council especially
encourages nominations that address four issue areas: poverty, public
health, environment, and disaster preparedness. In addition, special
attention will be given to programs that show an unusual level of
creativity, innovation, sustainability, and risk-taking. http://fconline.foundationcenter.org/pnd/10009356/cof
William T. Grant Foundation
Distinguished Fellows Program to Support Youth Research- Deadline: January 10, 2008 - The goal of the
Distinguished Fellows Program is to increase the supply of, demand for,
and use of high-quality research in the service of improved youth
outcomes. The program is intended to help researchers strengthen the
ways in which their work reflects an understanding of policy and
practice, and help policy makers and practitioners enhance their
capacities to recognize and use high-quality research. To accomplish
this, the fellowship allows mid-career practitioners/policy makers
to spend extended time working in a research setting or researchers
to spend extended time working in a practitioner/policy-making
setting. The foundation selects between two and four William T.
Grant Distinguished Fellows annually. Each fellow receives up
to $175,000 for the total duration of the fellowship, which may
range from six months to two years, depending on the proposed design.
http://fconline.foundationcenter.org/pnd/10009350/wtgrantfound
Global Action Awards to Honor U.S.
High School Students - Deadline: January 31, 2008 -
NetAid,
an initiative of Mercy Corps, is accepting applications for the Global
Action Awards. The awards honor high school students in the United States
who have organized and led a project that has impacted people in poor
countries, or raised awareness about global poverty in their own
communities. The awards celebrate young people who have shown great
leadership in areas such as preventing disease, alleviating hunger,
protecting the environment, promoting human rights, and improving access
to clean drinking water, health care, or education. High school students
living in the U.S. who have organized and led a project that has directly
impacted people in poor countries, or raised awareness about global
poverty in their own community are eligible to apply. Applicants must be
a current U.S. high school student, or have graduated from high school in
spring 2007. http://fconline.foundationcenter.org/pnd/10009440/netaid
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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
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Call for
Papers: Cityscape: A Journal of Policy Development and Research
- Deadline: November 15, 2007 –The journal is seeking articles documenting work by
university-based architecture, landscape architecture, or planning
programs to aid in the Gulf-region's disaster recovery process. Specifically,
articles are sought documenting built or substantially completed
projects, including homes, parks, and other community development
projects. Articles will be published in the July 2008 issue. The issue
will be edited by Kathleen Dorgan, AIA, Dorgan Architects; Michael
Monti, Ph.D., Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture
executive director; and Kinnard D.Wright, U.S. Department of Housing
and Urban Development. For more
information contact Kathleen Dorgan at Dorgan@kdorgan.net.
Call for
Workshop Proposals: 2008 National Conference on Service and
Volunteering - Deadline: November 16, 2007 –The National Conference on Volunteering and Service, held this
year in Atlanta, Georgia , June 1-3, 2008, is the preeminent gathering
for America 's volunteer and service sector and is an unparalleled learning
event for professionals from throughout the sector. The National Conference provides
opportunities to network, learn new skills, share effective practices,
and gain a sense of renewed purpose and inspiration. The National Conference is seeking
workshop proposals that aim to stimulate participant learning around
new skills, practical tools, innovative ideas and cutting-edge
information. http://www.volunteeringandservice.org/Submit_Proposal.cfm
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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
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CCPH Publication
Sale!
Get a 20%
discount on ALL CCPH publications ordered before January 31,
or while
supplies last!
See our
website at www.ccph.info for more
information!
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Risk Assessment
for Environmental Health
Edited by Mark G. Robson
and William A. Toscano, Risk Assessment for Environmental Health is
a new textbook, developed in partnership with the Association of Schools of
Public Health, which provides a complete introduction to risk assessment
practices and procedures as it is practiced in public health and
environmental health. Law and
regulations, risk communication and precautionary principles are also
covered.
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
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Consensus
Organizing: Building Communities of Mutual Self Interest
The first new form of community organizing
since Saul Alinsky, this book connects the poor to the rest of
society. Written in a logical,
teachable and pragmatic style, Consensus Organizing: Building
Communities of Mutual Self Interest is a model of social change for the
21st century. Through
real examples, author Mike Eichler illustrates how anyone can practice
consensus organizing and help the poor, forgotten and disempowered.
Ordering information: http://www.sagepub.com/booksProdDesc.nav?level1=
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