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Creating
the Future We Want to Be:
Transformation through Partnerships
OVERVIEW | |
Nominations Due January 30, 2009
for the CCPH Annual Award! The award recognizes an exemplary community-campus
partnership that others can aspire to. Click here
for details. |
Introduction to CCPH’s 11th Conference
Community-Campus Partnerships for Health (CCPH) is convening our 11th Conference, April 29-May 2, 2009 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA, to nurture a growing network of community-campus partnerships that are striving to solve our most pressing health, social and economic challenges.
CCPH was founded in 1996 to promote health (broadly defined) through partnerships between communities and higher educational institutions. We are a growing network of communities and campuses across the United States, Canada and increasingly the world that are collaborating to promote health through service-learning, community-based participatory research, broad-based coalitions and other partnership strategies. We are tied together by our commitment to social justice and our passion for the power of partnerships to transform communities and academe.
Our strategic goals include:
- Combining the knowledge, wisdom and experience in communities and in academic institutions to solve the challenges facing our society
- Building the capacity of communities and higher educational institutions to engage each other in authentic partnerships
- Supporting communities in their work with academic partners
- Recognizing and rewarding faculty for community engagement and community-engaged scholarship
- Developing partnerships that balance power and share resources among partners
- Ensuring that community-driven social justice is central to service-learning and community-based participatory research
With its focus on Creating the Future We Want to Be, the conference seeks to empower individuals and partnerships to create a just and sustainable future, so that we need not be passive participants in the status quo or mere witnesses to the change determined by others.
With its focus on Transformation through Partnerships, the conference seeks to highlight the power of partnerships to lead and inspire transformation at all levels:
Societal transformation - Creating social justice by changing inequitable systems, policies, culture and values, and by fundamentally redefining how we understand community, health, science, knowledge and evidence.
Institutional and organizational transformation - Creating institutional justice by challenging and changing assumptions, systems, policies, culture, and values of the everyday organizations in which we work as well as the major institutions that shape and govern us.
Personal transformation - Creating interpersonal
justice by encouraging self-reflection and challenging personal assumptions and
values in ways that strengthen capacity and commitment to work for social justice.
| Proposal submission deadline | October 10, 2008 |
| Submitting presenters notified of decision on proposal | by
December 1, 2008 |
| Deadline for presenters to confirm their participation | December
2008 |
| Early bird registration deadline | March 2009 |
| Hotel reservation deadline | April 6, 2009 |
| Advance registration deadline | April 2009 |
“We
are a group that makes things happen.”
~
Cheryl Maurana, Senior Associate Dean for Public and Community Health,
Medical
College of Wisconsin and Founding CCPH Board Chair, incoming CCPH Executive Director
CCPH was founded in 1996 to promote health (broadly defined) through partnerships between communities and higher educational institutions. A non-profit organization based in Milwaukee, WI, USA, CCPH is governed by a board of directors comprised of community leaders, students, academic administrators, faculty members and other stakeholders. CCPH members - over 1,800 communities and campuses located across the US, Canada and a dozen countries - are promoting health through service-learning, community-based participatory research, broad-based coalitions and other community-campus partnership strategies. These partnerships are powerful tools for improving higher education, civic engagement, and the overall health of communities.
CCPH conferences are noted for
their emphasis on inclusion, experiential learning and subsequent action. Outcomes
of past CCPH conferences have included those at national and international levels,
such as principles of good practice and policy recommendations, and those at community
levels, including new connections, new ways of thinking, and relationships between
communities and campuses that come closer to the principle-centered partnerships
we are striving to achieve.
In 1997, the first CCPH conference examined the key factors that contribute to the sustainability of partnerships between communities and higher educational institutions. The 1998 conference on principles and best practices of community-campus partnerships led to a set of "principles of good partnerships” that many partnerships now use to guide their development. In 1999, we focused on the knowledge, skills and attitudes needed to lead successful partnerships. In 2000, we delved into the policies that support and hinder community-campus partnerships, and developed our members' advocacy skills. In 2001, we highlighted the many ways in which community-campus partnerships could advance national health objectives. In 2002, we focused on the partnership and its role as a leverage point for change. In 2003, we addressed how to take partnerships to a new level, how to achieve desired outcomes and how to sustain changes achieved. In 2004, we collaborated with an international organization, The Network: Towards Unity for Health, to offer a unique look at how partnerships between communities, health services and health professional schools were helping to overcome health disparities on a global level. In 2006, we strived to understand and demonstrate the meaning of “authentic” community-campus partnerships. In 2007, we mobilized partnerships for social justice.
Meet the Conference Planning Committee!
Below is information on the conference planning committee.
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Hamed
Adetunji
| Hamed Adetunji is Programme Leader for the Postgraduate Programme in Public Health, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, United Kingdom. Hamed’s background is in Nutrition and Public Health. His PhD (in Public Health) is in Health Economics where he estimated the costs and cost-effectiveness of adding Hepatitis B into the Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI). Hamed later attended the Imperial College London, University of London for Diploma and MSc in Modern Epidemiology. He is a Fellow of the Royal Institute of Public Health. His work experience includes Universities, Ministries of Health in Africa and the Middle East as well as National Health Service/ Primary Care Trust in the UK. His expertise includes enhancing capabilities of primary health care professionals especially in community development / action research including health promotion implementation, the development of Public Health Programmes, Hepatitis B immunization policy and control of infectious diseases. Hamed joined CCPH two years ago and hopes to utilize the experience gained so far to coordinates a collaborative research projects between the academics and communities in Oxfordshire. |
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[ Coming Soon! ] Syed
Ahmed
| Syed
Ahmed is the Director of the Center for Healthy Communities (CHC)
at the Medical College of Wisconsin, where he is also a Professor of Family and
Community Medicine. Syed has about two decades of experience working with communities
in Ohio and Wisconsin. Through his educational, scholarly, and community work,
Syed has made nationally and internationally recognized contributions to the field
of community health, community-academic partnerships, and community-based participatory
research. Syed has received numerous federal and foundation grants, presented
at a variety of national conferences, published numerous academic papers, and
book chapters focusing on the health and healthcare of underserved and uninsured
populations. Currently, he is a member of the Council of Public Representatives
(COPR), an advisory board to the NIH director and the Co-Chair of the COPR's Role
of the Public in the Research workgroup, which focuses on public & community
engagement.
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Christine
Cronk
| Chris Cronk is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Pediatrics and Population Health at the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW) and a member of the Children's Research Institute (part of the Children's Hospital and Health Systems of Wisconsin). She is co-principal investigator for the National Children's Study (NCS) Waukesha County Vanguard Center, and has served as the chair of the NCS Outreach and Engagement team which has helped to develop approaches for engaging the 105 communities where the NCS will be sited as active players in Study activities. She has been involved in community-academic partnerships in Milwaukee with both the Latino and African American communities through the Healthier Wisconsin Partnership Projects. She has a particular interest in health beliefs related to genetics and birth defects, the culture of science and how the norms and beliefs of scientists affect their partnerships with communities. Prior to her work at MCW, Chris was a health analyst in the Wisconsin Center for Health Statistics and oversaw the birth defects surveillance program for the state of Wisconsin. Chris has degrees in maternal and child health (Harvard School of Public Health) and Anthropology (Western Michigan University). |
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[ Coming Soon! ] Yvonne
Davis
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[ Coming Soon! ] Joshua
Edward | Joshua Edward is the Director of Community Partnerships and Resource Development at the Association for Utah Community Health, the Primary Care Association (PCA) for the state of Utah. Joshua is currently pursuing a Master of Public Health from the University of Alaska; his research interests include working with community members to develop social capital and health literacy in rural, frontier, and geographically isolated communities, intimate partner violence prevention, and reducing health disparities in circumpolar regions. Joshua is an active volunteer and participates in many community boards, in addition to spending time renovating his recently purchased 110 year-old home, gardening, and riding his bicycle everywhere he goes. |
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Therese
Fish | Therese
Fish entered the University of Cape Town Medical School during the
height of apartheid when acceptance of black students at the then white universities
was done under a quota system. Therefore graduating with a MBChB degree in 1986,
where less than 10% of the class were graduates of colour, was considered a major
achievement. Starting her medical career working in a remote part of the black
homeland called Kwazulu in 1986 and being promoted through the ranks (at both
Provincial and Local Government Level), from a medical officer to a District Health
Manager in 1999, has exposed her to a broad range of experience at all levels
within the health services. During this time she continued her tertiary education
by completing a Diploma in Community Medicine, (1993 - 1994) from the University
of Stellenbosch; a short course in Health Policy, Planning and Economics (1999)
from the Nuffield Institute Of Health, University of Leeds (UK); a MBA (cum laude)
(2001) from the University of Stellenbosch and a certificate course in Healthcare
Financing (2001) at the University of Cape Town: Actuarial Science Department.
She held the position of senior lecturer (from 2002 - 2005) at the University
of Stellenbosch Business School and Head: MBA Theses for the internationally accredited
MBA programme and fulfilled the role of liaison person between the student body
and the academic staff. She currently holds the position of Deputy Dean: Community
Service and -Interaction at the Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Stellenbosch
where she is responsible for strategic planning and leadership with regard to
the integration of community service and interaction with teaching and research,
development and extension of community service and interaction in collaboration
with the Western Cape Health Department and other partners, responsibility for
all agreements/contracts with partner employers, as well as other institutions
in the public and private sectors, interaction and networking with national and
international health departments, as well as other relevant statutory and non-statutory
bodies, representation of the Faculty on the management structures of health service
delivery bodies and the promotion and development of the strategies and policies
for community service and interaction of the Faculty and University. She currently
serves on the board of Mediclinic South Africa and is the chairperson of the University
of Stellenbosch's Business School's Alumni NPO Development Programme. |
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Elmer
Freeman | Elmer Freeman is Executive Director of the Center for Community Health, Education, Research and Service (also CCHERS known as "Cheers"). CCHERS started in 1991 and is a partnership between Northeastern University Bouve College of Health Sciences and fifteen community health centers serving the diverse racial and ethnic populations of the City of Boston. Prior to joining CCHERS, for sixteen years, Elmer was Executive Director of the Whittier Street Health Center in Roxbury, MA. Elmer is pursuing his doctoral degree in law and policy at Northeastern University. Elmer is also a past board member and chair emeritus of the CCPH board of directors. |
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Barbara
Gottlieb
| Barbara Gottlieb, is a primary care internist at Brookside Community Health Center, where she has worked since 1981. In addition to her patient care responsibilities, she is responsible for developing clinical and public health programs and coordinates medical student and resident teaching activities at the health center. She also coordinates research activities at the health center, and serves as a liaison to academically based researchers and research projects. She is also a member of the Division of General Medicine and Primary Care and the Division of Women's Health at Brigham and Women's Hospital and teaches regularly on the in-patient service. She is Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School, where she teaches in several courses and is a member of the Division of Service Learning. She is a faculty member at the Harvard School of Public Health, where she teaches in the interdisciplinary program in Women, Gender and Health. She also teaches a practicum course for MPH students. She serves as advisor and mentor to medical and public health students who are interested in the health of women and underserved communities. Barbara is also a member of the CCPH board of directors. To learn more about Barbara, visit http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/boardmembers.html |
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Susan
Gust
| Susan Ann Gust is a community activist, mother, grandmother and small business owner of 29 years of a construction management company. Susan enjoys an active civic and professional life that merge her passion to make the world a better place by assisting in bringing people together of different cultural and class backgrounds to work collaboratively towards that goal. Her work in construction and economic justice led to her founding the ReUse Center in Minneapolis. The ReUse Center is the nation's first, retail reusable building material store. Susan is also Co-coordinator of an initiative called GRASS Routes (Grassroots Activism, Sciences and Scholarship). This initiative on the University of Minnesota campus assists in the forming, mentoring and sustaining of community-university partnerships. She was a University of Minnesota Humphrey Institute Public Policy Fellow 2003-2004. Her civic work includes co-founding and serving on the Phillips Neighborhood Healthy Housing Collaborative and the board of Community University Health Care Center, a community clinic. She also is serving her 2nd term appointment as the Ward 6 representative to the City of Minneapolis's Public Health Advisory Committee. Susan is also a member of the CCPH board of directors. To learn more about Susan, visit http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/boardmembers.html |
| [ Coming Soon! ] Gary
Hollander | Gary Hollander is the Executive Director of Diverse and Resilient, Inc., a public benefit capacity-building organization that works toward the healthy development of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people in Wisconsin (USA) through the organizations and leaders that serve them directly. Gary is a psychologist predominantly interested in the systems, social determinants, and leadership variables that affect the health of communities. Diverse and Resilient partners with three universities to address issues of alcohol use, tobacco use, intimate partner violence, and social and economic factors that influence health among LGBT youth and adults. In 2008 Diverse and Resilient is launching a three-year tobacco cessation program funded by the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. |
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[ Coming Soon! ] Shawn
Kimmel | Dr. Kimmel is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Kellogg Health Scholars Program (2006-2008) at the University of Michigan School of Public Health. His research has been focused on developing frameworks for integrating policy research and advocacy into the design of community-based participatory research (CBPR) projects, while also investigating best practices for strengthening community capacity to engage in successful policy change interventions to reduce health disparities. His ongoing research is directed toward combining the evidence from community-based research with the historical lessons of previous social movements to develop more strategic approaches to policy change efforts aimed at transforming the institutional determinants that produce inequities in population health, in order to strengthen contemporary movements for health and environmental justice. |
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Daniel
Korin
| Daniel E. Korin, a Latino board certified pediatrician, graduated from the Universidad de Buenos Aires medical school. He completed a Fellowship in Adolescent Medicine at Children's Hospital National Center, Washington, D.C. and trained at the Residency Program in Social Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY. Currently, he is a consultant for the GENE project at the March of Dimes to educate underserved communities on advances in genetics, with major emphasis on health communication, health literacy, and community-based participatory approaches. Daniel is also a member of the CCPH board of directors. To learn more about Daniel, visit http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/boardmembers.html |
| [ Coming Soon! ] Lisa McDonald McGeeNashville, TN USA | [ Coming Soon! ] |
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Piper
McGinley | Piper K. McGinley is the former associate director of CCPH and currently serves as a senior consultant for CCPH. Piper directed the CCPH headquarters housed at UCSF Center for the Health Professions, and was responsible for the content and planning of CCPH's annual conference, the introductory and advanced service-learning institutes, and served as lead staff on numerous other projects, including several California-focused initiatives. In addition, Piper produced the bi-annual CCPH magazine, Partnership Perspectives. After CCPH relocated its operations to the University of Washington, Piper served as the Associate Director of the Integrated Nurse Leadership Program (INLP), housed at UCSF Center for the Health Professions. INLP is a Betty and Gordon Moore Foundation program that brings together nurses and hospital executives from the San Francisco Bay Area to learn skills in leadership and management and to implement quality and safety initiatives in their hospitals. Piper is also a CCPH senior consultant. To learn more about Piper, visit http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/srconsultants.html |
| [ Coming Soon! ] Felix
Munger | [
Coming Soon! ] |
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[ Coming Soon! ] Gail
Newton | Gail
L. Newton has served as a Program Officer for the past two years at
the Greater Rochester Health Foundation (GRHF) located in Rochester, New York.
The Foundation has three primary focus areas including health status improvement,
health system improvement, and prevention. Gail's specific program area is the
prevention of childhood overweight and obesity, which is GRHF's first long-term
investment in prevention. Previously, she worked for ten years at the Center for
Healthy Communities at the Medical College of Wisconsin and later at the University
of Rochester Medical Center developing and strengthening community-academic partnerships
to improve health in both urban and rural communities. Gail has been a member
of CCPH since its beginning, and values all that she has learned throughout the
years from its staff, board, and diverse membership. |
| [ Coming Soon! ] Pam
Reynolds | Pamela
Reynolds has been a member of CCPH since 1999. Her doctoral dissertation
project focused on how service learning benefited physical therapy students' professional
development. She is a tenured, recently promoted full Professor in the Doctor
of Physical Therapy Program at Gannon University, Erie, PA. Her primary responsibilities
include teaching and coordinating the Community Health Initiatives and Research
Applications: Evidence-Based Practice course sequences. Each of her physical therapy
students spend no less than 130 hours in service to the community throughout the
curriculum. Locally Pam partners with several agencies including Special Olympics,
Kids' Cafés sponsored by Second Harvest Food Bank, the International Institute
of Erie and Habitat for Humanity. Internationally in El Salvador, she and her
students have worked with Voices on the Border, the Salvadorian Association for
Health Promotion, the Association of War Wounded Veterans, and the University
of El Salvador physiotherapy students on projects related to health promotion
and prevention of disability. Pam is a recognized leader in her profession for
her work in service learning and promotion of the scholarship of engagement. She
was recently the guest editor for a special issue of the Journal of Physical Therapy
Education, on service learning and community engaged scholarship, which was published
in the winter of 2006 issue. She prepared the curriculum materials for physical
therapy that integrated physical therapy with emergency preparedness and response,
and service-learning for the multidisciplinary Ready Campus Manual, which is produced
by Pennsylvania Campus Compact and funded through a grant from the US Department
of Homeland Security. Most recently Pam contributed a book chapter on Connecting
Interprofessional Education to the Community through Service Learning and Community
Engaged Scholarship. |
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Vivien
Runnels | Vivien
Runnels is a Ph.D. student in Population Health at the University of
Ottawa in Ontario, Canada. She has a master's degree in Disability Management
in Work and Rehabilitation from City University, London UK and an honours degree
in Social Administration and Physical Education from the University of Birmingham,
UK. Vivien is currently a research associate with the Globalization and Health
Equity Research Unit and the Globalization Knowledge Network of the WHO Commission
on Social Determinants of Health at the Institute of Population Health at the
University of Ottawa. Her previous employment has included Research Coordinator
of the Centre for Research on Community Services at the University of Ottawa,
and rehabilitation counsellor with persons with mental illness in British Columbia
, and with clients with chronic pain in Ontario. She has worked in education as
a high-school teacher and coordinator for adult and community education. She has
been an active community volunteer for many years and a volunteer with the Vocational
Rehabilitation Association of Canada (formerly the Canadian Association of Rehabilitation
Professionals). Vivien's current research involvements and interests include:
governance in community-based participatory research; homelessness and food insecurity;
health human resources and migration; breastfeeding; and knowledge translation. |
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Jonathan
Salsberg | Jon Salsberg has spent the last seven years working in participatory research. Five of these were situated in a community-based primary prevention project, where he managed the population health component of a national CIHR-IHRT study looking at diabetes in the Aboriginal population. Jon is a qualitative researcher with a background in development anthropology, whose interests include the pragmatics of participatory inquiry and end-user engagement, as well as informatics and wide-area data tool development. Along with Ann Macaulay and David Parry, Jon is co-author of the forthcoming CIHR tutorial on integrated knowledge translation. Jon has worked in both northern and southern Aboriginal community settings, and has consulted on participatory projects involving various knowledge-users such as patients in an urban family practice centre; Canadian pharmacists; Montreal urban youth; and federal and provincial public health policy makers. Jon is currently a Research Manager in the Department of Family Medicine at McGill, managing Participatory Research at McGill (PRAM). |
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[ Coming Soon! ] Ellen
Servais | Ellen
Servais manages a new PhD program in Public and Community Health at
the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW) in Milwaukee, WI. Being launched as the
nation's only doctoral program in this field, it is dedicated specifically to
integrating community health, action and participation into public health research,
and is funded by a unique endowment established in perpetuity at MCW to fund this
research. Previously, Ellen was the Assistant Director at the Healthier Wisconsin
Partnership Program, a funding program at MCW that awards community-academic partnerships
for their work building a healthier society. Ignited by two tours in the US Peace
Corps (Ethiopia and Solomon Islands), her career in community service has also
seen her teaching in an urban public charter school, directing business relations
at an adult day care center, providing mediation services in a city court system
and serving on community boards. She obtained her BA in English Pre-Law from Washington
State University and her Masters in Public Service / Conflict Resolution as a
distinguished fellow at Marquette University. Ellen is fueled by a passion for
community equity, social justice, promotion of higher learning and a world view
that embraces change and constant improvement. |
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