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Community-Campus Partnerships for Health (CCPH) is a nonprofit organization that promotes health (broadly defined) through partnerships between communities and higher educational institutions. Founded in 1996, we are a growing network of over 1,800 communities and campuses across North America and increasingly the world that are collaborating to promote health through service-learning, community-based participatory research, broad-based coalitions and other partnership strategies. These partnerships are powerful tools for improving higher education, civic engagement and the overall health of communities.

We are working toward a number of shared goals, including:

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New CCPH Leadership & Organizational Home! On August 1, Cheryl A. Maurana is CCPH's new executive director and the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee is CCPH's new organizational home. For details, click here. For CCPH's new contact information, click here. Watch this page for the latest transition updates!

New Report on Ensuring Community-Level Research Protections! Based on the recent conference call series co-sponsored by CCPH and the Tuskegee University National Center for Bioethics in Research and Health Care, the report provides guidance for what you can do as a community member, research ethics committee member or researcher to ensure that communities involved inresearch maximize their benefits and minimize their risks. Click here for more information on CCPH's CBPR & Research Ethics Program.

NIH asks how it should invest its public resources in "cross cutting initiatives that will improve and accelerate biomedical research and its impact on the health of the Nation". Click here for the response submitted by CCPH.

The Summer 2008 issue of Progress in Community Health Partnerships contains papers from CCPH's 10th anniversary conference. CCPH members can subscribe at a discount. Click here to read the CCPH-authored editorial, Mobilizing Partnerships for Social Change.

The latest issue of Partnership Matters newsletter is chock full of timely grant, conference and publication announcements. Click here to check it out.

To read past news, please click here.

     

Collaborating and Networking for Positive Change

CCPH Member Renee Veksler shares in her interview her experiences with the community-based collaborative organization Get Healthy Guam Coalition. Renee discusses how, with collaboration and networking, she has been able to grow and develop the Coalition and achieve the organization's goals of disseminating information to communities across the islands of Guam on improving health through active lifestyles.

To read more about Renee's work in Guam and ideas on collaboration and networking, click here to read the full interview. To read about previous Featured Members, click here.

If you would like to be a Featured Member, or would like to refer a colleague, please email CCPH Membership Coordinator Cate Clegg at cleggc@u.washington.edu.

     

Join CCPH at these upcoming conferences!

CCPH 11th Summer Service-Learning Institute, July 25-28 in the Cascade Mountains of Washington State. Please click here for more information.

Save the Date! CCPH 11th Conference, April 29-May 2, 2009 in Milwaukee, WI. Join us in our new home city for "Creating the Future We Want to Be: Transformation through Partnerships."

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