Community-Campus Partnerships for Health

🎙️ New podcast launched by our very own Director of Partnerships, Paul Kuttner! In this first episode, listeners will: 🤝 Meet Jennifer Mayer-Glenn, Director, of University Neighborhood Partners at the University of Utah 💡 Gain a deeper understanding of the important role of 'place' in collaboration ⚖️ Learn about the balance between structured processes and organic emergence 💕 Hear about how trust and relationship-building are pivotal in bridging divides between marginalized communities and systems. Join Paul and Jennifer as they uncover the 'method to this partnership madness.' 🎧 Give it a listen! ⤵️ https://lnkd.in/gKBXz_Mw

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The 'Advancing Vision Health Equity through Multi-level Interventions and Community-Engaged Research' deadline is approaching! Get your application in by March 3, 2025. This Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) supports research directed at preventing, reducing, or eliminating disparities in eye and vision health. Applications responding to this NOFO must involve multilevel interventions that simultaneously address vision health conditions and social determinants of health (SDOH) at one or more levels of influence, such as individual, interpersonal, organizational, and community. Apply here: https://lnkd.in/g5tn-yjv

'Assessing the context within academic health institutions toward improving equity-based, community and patient-engaged research,' co-authored by Paige Castro-Reyes, was recently published in the Journal of Clinical and Translational Science in partnership with Engage for Equity’s Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) engagement award. Read the article: https://ow.ly/5IeB50V0EWz The work continues in PCORI-funded study Engage for Equity PLUS (E2PLUS) Testing Engagement Strategies to Promote Trustworthy Academic Institutions and Patient and Community Leadership in Research aimed to improve policies and practices and the external reach of eight academic health centers that have Clinical Translation Research Centers toward the goal of strengthening patient and community leadership in research. The The University of New Mexico of New Mexico Center for Participatory Research E2 research team will partner with each of the eight institutions in a mutual learning process and will create a Community of Practice of universities and their partners by the end of the study to continue to transform how research in conducted. CCPH Deputy Director, Paige Castro-Reyes serves on the External Governing Board. Learn more: https://ow.ly/74Jw50V0EWy

The 46th Annual Minority Health Conference Bridging the Digital Divide: Leveraging Technology and Data for Health Equity is right around the corner! Registration closes Wednesday, February 26 at 5:00 PM ET. The UNC Minority Health Conference is a premier event dedicated to addressing health disparities and promoting health equity. Hosted by the Gillings School of Global Public Health, this annual conference brings together researchers, practitioners, and advocates to share insights, strategies, and solutions for advancing minority health. Register today! https://lnkd.in/g-7NiFMj

"As the world of research has broadened to really begin to embrace participatory forms of research, a lot of our systems and processes internally did not evolve with that." —Kent Key, Academic Partner Hear from Kent and the other insightful panelists who participated in our recent webinar 'Community-Driven Practices from the Field with University of North Carolina Greensboro' by watching the recording here: https://lnkd.in/g6J-Bkmq

New book alert! 🔔 Community-Centered Public Health Strategies, Tools, and Applications for Advancing Health Equity This latest resource for community engaged research practitioners features a chapter co-authored by Alan Richmond and Kunga Denzongpa, PhD, MPH, along with CCPH partners Ella Greene-Moton and Dr. Tabia Henry Akintobi. 30% discount off list price using the code AUTHOR30. Buy your copy here: ttps://ow.ly/aZSw50V0ETL

Have you caught up on our latest update? Check out CCPH's January Newsletter. Out now! https://ow.ly/cmFe50V0ESh

New toolkit 🧰 has dropped!

What we're reading from Higher Ed Dive: 📖 ‘This is our community’: Inside the programs helping college workers with home down payments "University officials say these programs help invest in their communities and encourage employee retention." Read here: https://ow.ly/Ua8X50UIRMc