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Creating
the Future We Want to Be:
Transformation through Partnerships
OVERVIEW | |
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Community-Campus Partnerships for Health (CCPH) is convening our 11th Conference, May 12-15, 2010 in Portland, Oregon, USA, to nurture a growing network of community-campus partnerships that are striving to solve our most pressing health, social and economic challenges.
The conference, "Creating the Future We Want to Be: Transformation through Partnerships" promises to be CCPH's best yet as hundreds of community and campus partners convene for 4 days of skill-building, networking and agenda-setting! Whether you are new to community-based participatory research (CBPR), service-learning or community-campus partnerships and looking for basics to get started, or have been involved for years and seeking more advanced knowledge and connections, this is one conference you will not want to miss!
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.
The conference agenda is designed to facilitate opportunities for participants to engage in substantive discussions, gain new knowledge and practical skills, think critically about their work and take action individually and collectively. The conference features dynamic and inspiring keynote presentations, facilitated discussions by peer group and interest area, educational exhibits, community site visits, local social justice-focused arts programming and many opportunities for informal networking. The CCPH annual award for exemplary community-campus partnerships is also presented at the conference.
The community-campus partnership movement
is indeed a global one. We extend a special invitation to the leaders and members
of national and international networks of community-campus partnerships from around
the world to participate.
Portland
is an ideal conference location. It has enormous assets to offer conference participants,
both as a hub for community-campus partnerships and as a tourist destination:
As a hub for community-campus partnerships: A major consideration for CCPH in selecting a site for our conferences is having ready access to exemplary community-campus partnerships that participants can see and learn from - both during "regular" conference sessions and on the site visits that are an integral component of the conference. Portland is home to 10 higher educational institutions - most of which are engaged in community-campus partnerships in one form or another, including one (Portland State University) that has received the coveted Carnegie elective classification as a community-engaged institution. Portland is also home to the Northwest Health Foundation, our major conference partner, which identifies community-based participatory research (CBPR) as a significant interest area, investing not only funds for CBPR grants but also for training and technical assistance to build CBPR capacity in the region.
As a tourist destination: Not only does the city have many wonderful community-campus partnerships to learn from, but it's also a fabulous place to visit. The city is noted for being green, clean and friendly, with a vibrant arts scene, eclectic restaurants, neighborhood farmer's markets and so much more! Check out the Visit Portland website.
Joining
us as a major conference partner is the Portland-based Northwest
Health Foundation, founded in 1997 to advance the health of the people of
Oregon and southwest Washington. The Foundation explicitly identifies community-based
participatory research as one of six issue areas it invests in and views it as
"as a tool to generate meaningful information about community health and
build the capacity of groups united by common challenges to organize and advocate
for change."
| Proposal submission deadline | October 16, 2009 |
| Presenters notified of decision on proposal | November/December
2009 |
| Deadline for presenters to confirm their participation | December
2009 |
| Registration opens | January 2010 |
| Early bird registration deadline | February 23, 2010 |
| Hotel reservation deadline | April 23, 2010 |
| Advance registration deadline | April 30, 2010 |
Meet the Conference Planning Committee
We are grateful
to members of the Conference Planning Committee for the passion, creativity, enthusiasm
and commitment they bring to the planning process!
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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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Syed
Ahmed
| Syed
Ahmed is a Professor of Family and Community Medicine and the Director
of the Center for Healthy Communities (CHC) at the Medical College of Wisconsin.
Dr. Ahmed has about 20 years of experience working with communities in Ohio and
Wisconsin. The CHC, formed in 1997, has developed numerous community-academic
partnerships to improve health in Wisconsin communities related to diabetes, cardiovascular
disease, cancer, substance abuse, and mental health. Through his educational,
scholarly, and community work, Dr. Ahmed has made nationally and internationally
recognized contributions to the field of community health, community-academic
partnerships, and community-based participatory research. He has been an invited
expert on community-academic partnership and community-based participatory research
at Agency for Health Care Research and Quality, the Center for Disease Control
and the National Institute of Health (NIH). 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. He is one of the lead authors for the "Community
Engagement in Research: Framework for Education and Research", based on the
work of the NIH COPR's Role of the Public in Research Workgroup. He also represents
the COPR in the national Clinical Translational Science Award Committee Key Function
Committee. Dr. Ahmed 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. His many recognitions for outstanding service to underserved and
uninsured communities includes the Certificate of Special Congressional Recognition
in 2000 from the U.S. Congress, the Ohio Quality of Care Award in 2000, and the
Wright State University Presidential Award for the Faculty Excellence in Professional
Service in 2001, Humanism in Medicine Award in 2001 from the Association of American
Medical Colleges.
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Joshua
Edward | Joshua Edward is the Director of Community Partnerships at Salt Lake Community Action Program Head Start. Previously, Joshua was the Director of Community Partnerships and Resource Development at the Association for Utah Community Health, the Primary Care Association for the state of Utah. Joshua is currently pursuing a Master of Science degree in City and Metropolitan Planning at the University of Utah; 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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Stephanie
Ann Farquhar | Stephanie
Ann Farquhar is Associate Professor of Community Health at Portland
State University (PSU). Dr. Farquhar draws from the principles of community-based
participatory research to address issues of social and environmental equity as
it relates to health. In partnership with Multnomah County Health Department and
several community organizations, Dr. Farquhar completed a 3-year Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention grant to examine the role of Community Health Workers and
popular education in Latino and African American communities in Portland, Oregon.
She is currently a researcher on a National Institutes of Health grant that seeks
to reduce pesticides exposure and occupational stressors among indigenous farmworkers
in Oregon. Dr. Farquhar is on the Board of Directors of Upstream Public Health,
and served as a commissioner on the city/county Sustainable Development Commission.
Prior to arriving at the PSU School of Community Health, Dr. Farquhar completed
a W.K. Kellogg Foundation Community Health Scholars postdoctoral fellowship at
the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, and received her PhD from the University
of Michigan School of Public Health. |
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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 and small business owner of a thirty-three year old construction management, consulting and community development company. Her work in construction and economic/environmental justice led her to founding the ReUse Center in Minneapolis. Through her business, she is a facility manager of a 116-year-old building that houses a family violence prevention program. She was a University of Minnesota Public Policy Fellow in 2003-2004. Susan was the co-founder of the Phillips Neighborhood Healthy Housing Collaborative and is a consultant to the Family Sustainability Collaborative, a Blue Cross Blue Shield Foundation funded project that grew out of the original collaboration. She recently completed 9 years of service on the Board of Community University Health Care Center and 6 years as an appointee on the City of Minneapolis Public Health Advisory Committee. Currently, she is serving on the Board of Community Campus Partnerships for Health and as a member of the Cultural Wellness Center's Law and Policy Committee. Additional civic responsibilities includes participating in the following local efforts: Healthy Homes, Healthy Kids; Phillips Environmental Steering Committee Initiative and Allina's Backyard Initiative. Susan also eagerly spends time in activities involving her school-aged daughter and her grandchildren. Susan is also a member of the CCPH board of directors. To learn more about Susan, visit http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/boardmembers.html |
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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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Kevin
Kecskes | Kevin Kecskes is the Associate Vice Provost for Engagement and Director of Community-University Partnerships. Kevin is charged with helping campus and community constituents live the university motto: "Let Knowledge Serve the City." From 1997-2002, Kevin was the Director of Service-Learning at Washington Campus Compact, and the Program Director of the Western Region Campus Compact Consortium. He served three years in leadership and program development positions with AmeriCorps National Civilian Community Corps in Charleston, SC. Kevin co-founded the Boston College International Volunteer Program and has spent a dozen years working, serving, and studying in the developing world, primarily in Latin America and Asia. His recent publications focus on the nexus between cultural theory and community-campus partnerships, faculty and institutional development for civic engagement, student leadership development, ethics and community-based learning, and service-learning impacts on community partners. Kevin recently edited "Engaging Departments: Moving Faculty Culture from Private to Public, Individual to Collective Focus for the Common Good" (2006, Anker Publications). |
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Shawn
Kimmel | Shawn Kimmel is the founding Director of the Detroit Center for Community-driven Policymaking, and the Managing Director of CD Policy Consulting, LLC, organizations committed to working with communities to strengthen their power to drive policymaking for sustainable development & health equity. Previously, Shawn was a postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Community track of the Kellogg Health Scholars Program at the University of Michigan School of Public Health (2006-2008), with a focus on best practices for strengthening the capacity of community-based organizations to integrate policy research and advocacy into the design of community-based participatory research projects. His current work is directed at developing best practices for community-driven research and policymaking partnerships to support the policy action and change goals of community-based organizations. Shawn serves on a number of Detroit community nonprofit boards, and has been a social justice activist since the mid-1980s. Shawn earned his Ph.D. in American Culture from the University of Michigan, and an M.A. in Philanthropic Studies and History from Indiana University. |
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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 |
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M.
Lisa McDonald McGee | M. Lisa McDonald McGee, Director of the Meharry Medical College Historically Black Colleges and Universities Wellness Project, has a 25 year history in social services and healthcare program development, implementation and management. She is a former National Institutes of Health Principal Investigator for a chronic disease patient services core with Cincinnati Children's Hospital that included writing and managing a 5 year-dually funded project. She also served as an advisor for the development of standards and procedures for sickle cell disease counseling with the Sickle Cell Disease Association of America. During her tenure at Cincinnati Children's Hospital, she developed several programs that emotionally prepared parents and caregivers of children with sickle cell disease cope optimally and increase better outcomes. Her other training encompasses individual and family counseling from Xavier University in Cincinnati where she obtained a M.Ed. in Counseling. She has served on several boards that involved programming for children and families and has held leadership positions in various civic and social organizations. Additionally, she is the founder and CEO of The Pinnacle Pineapple, a home based catering service targeting working women for weekend family meals. Mrs. McGee is also the wife of Michael McGee and the proud parent of Alexander McDonald and Jianne McDonald. |
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Nichole
Maher | Nichole Maher graduated Cum Laude from Oregon State University with a degree in Public Health and American Indian Studies. She also holds a Masters of Public Health in Administration and Policy from the Mark Hatfield School of Government at Portland State University and Oregon Health Sciences University. Nichole has over 10 years experience in planning and implementing culturally specific education, housing and poverty reduction programs with American Indian and Alaska Native populations. Nichole also has experience with diverse funding sources, including foundations, state, county, federal and tribal contracts. In addition to her administrative experience, Nichole completed a national medical research project at the Harvard Medical School, completed the Minority Medical Education Program at Yale Medical School, and completed a research study on Alaskan Native and Hawaiian Native learning styles with a McNair fellowship. Nichole was born in Ketchikan Alaska and attended school in the Siletz reservation of Oregon. Nichole enjoys spending time with her family, hiking and playing softball, and creating beadwork. Nichole serves on the Portland School's Foundation Board, the Portland Parks and Recreation Board, and the National Urban Indian Family Center Coalition Board. Nichole is a member of the Tlingit and Haida Central Council of South East Alaska. |
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David
Rebanal | R.
David Rebanal is a program officer with the Northwest Health Foundation
and oversees its strategic initiatives in public health. Currently his work involves
partnering with public and private organizations to improve the state and local
public health system, utilizing community-based participatory research to strengthen
community advocacy and drive policy change in Oregon, and leveraging the Foundation’s
investments and research to improve public health policies and practice. David
has worked as a HIV community outreach worker and a health educator in New York,
as well as conducted epidemiologic community assessments at the New York City
health department. After completing his Master's Degree in Public Health at Hunter
College in New York City, David completed a three-year post-graduate service fellowship
with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, working on program planning
and evaluation in community-based and health systems chronic disease prevention.
David also chairs the Asian Pacific Islander Health Network coalition in Portland,
and is passionate about issues of social justice and health equity. David lives
in Portland with his wife and two daughters. |
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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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