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2021 Annual Report: A Year of Action and Growth

As we look forward to celebrating our 25th Anniversary, we reflect on the work that we have done as an organization along with our community partners. We are elated to share with you our 2021 Annual Report: A Year of Action and Growth. 2021 was a year of tremendous...

CEACR Speaker Series: Language Equity

CCPH and our partners at the Community Engagement Alliance Consultative Resource (CEACR) present the CEACR Speaker Series, a monthly virtual event highlighting key topics related to successful community engagement in research. We invite you to attend...

Monkeypox Resources

As of August 2nd, the CDC has confirmed 6,326 cases of monkeypox in the U.S. While there is no treatment specifically for monkeypox, a vaccine is available and recommended for anyone who may have been exposed to the virus. Contact your local healthcare provider or...

CEACR Co-PI Dr. Mylynda Massart was recently featured in Pitt Med Magazine

CEACR Co-PI Dr. Mylynda Massart was recently featured in Pitt Med Magazine highlighting her work to promote research reciprocity. She describes how researchers can use principles of partnership and reciprocity to build trust with communities and transform our approach...

CEACR Speaker Series: Humanizing the Study Participant Journey — Strengthening Inclusive Participation

Join CCPH and our colleagues at the Community Engagement Alliance Against COVID-19 Consultative Resource (CEACR) for a virtual discussion on barriers and facilitators toward inclusive participation in research. This session will highlight ways research teams...

Managing the Impact of Covid in the HBCU Community

Date: July 26 th , 2022 Time: 1pm ET Webinar Description: Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) faced unprecedented challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition to traditional challenges faced sustaining an HBCU, its leaders must now incorporate...

CEACR Speaker Series- Successful Community-Engaged Research: Humanizing Institutional Processes for Offering Proper Partner Compensation

Join CCPH and our partners at the Community Engagement Alliance Consultative Resource (CEACR) for the first event in our virtual speaker series, "Successful Community-Engaged Research: Humanizing Institutional Processes for Offering Proper Partner...

CCPH Welcomes Da’Naya Mayes, MS as a Program Coordinator

We are proud to welcome Da’Naya Mayes to the CCPH team! Based in Portland, OR with an MS in Healthcare Systems Engineering from Loyola Marymount University, Da’Naya will be supporting RADx-UP and other CCPH initiatives as a Program Coordinator. We asked her a few...

CCPH Welcomes Trey Mackey, MBA, MPH as a Program Coordinator

We are proud to welcome Tremayne (Trey) Mackey to the CCPH team! Based in Nashville, TN with an MPH from Morehouse School of Medicine and an MBA from George Washington University, Trey will be supporting RADx-UP and other CCPH initiatives as a Program Coordinator. We...

Forging Sustainable Community-Academic Partnerships to Improve Population Health and Reduce Health Disparities in Rural Locales

Apr 22, 2019 | Board Member Highlight

The mission of CCPH, “to promote health equity and social justice through partnerships between communities and academic institutions”, summarizes my career as a public and population health professional. The eradication of health disparities and commitment to social...

Proceedings of the 2017 Advancing the Science of Community Engaged Research (CEnR) Conference

Apr 19, 2019 | Community Based Participatory Research, Community Engaged Scholarship, Community-Academic Partnerships, Disseminating CES

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CCPH as a Sandbox: How this Board Member learned about the Principles of Partnership

Mar 12, 2019 | Board Member Highlight

I first learned about community-based public health (CBPH) as a graduate student at the University of Michigan School of Public Health. I was on the health policy track in the Master of Public Health program in the Department of Health Management and Policy (HMP). I...

Statement on the Challenges to Medical College Education

Mar 1, 2019 | Community-Academic Partnerships

More than 100 years since the historic Flexner report highlighting the systemic challenges of American medical schools, we continue to face challenges in the process and climate of medical education. A recent revelation of an American medical college yearbook...

Build a Synergistic Movement: Dismantling the Injustices of Racism

Feb 6, 2019 | Community-Academic Partnerships

I cut my teeth on community work when, as a newly minted garden variety college history major, I elected to become a VISTA volunteer. I was sent to work in northeast Tennessee’s Hancock County. This was in 1969 when, while the nation was in upheaval, we still had...