March 17, 2015, 10:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Sponsor/Co-Sponsor(s)
Office of Health Equity (OHE), Office of the NICHD Director (OD); and Child Development and Behavior Branch (CDBB) and Pediatric Trauma and Critical Illness Branch (PTCIB), Division of Extramural Research, NICHD
Location
6100 Executive Boulevard, 5th Floor Conference Room, Rockville, Maryland
Purpose
The Academic-Community Partnership (ACP) Conference Series brings together academic institutions and community organizations to identify opportunities for addressing health disparities through the use of Community-Based Participatory Research.
This seminar offers ACP grantees the opportunity to share lessons learned while building academic-community partnerships to reduce violence disparities. Grantees will highlight strategies for engaging communities in research, identifying community health priorities, and designing collaborative prevention and/or intervention programs to reduce health disparities.
Seminar speakers include:
- Jessica Adams, Ph.D.
Director of Psychology and Training, Child Abuse Listening Mediation
- David L. Driscoll, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Associate Professor and Director, Institute for Circumpolar Health Studies, University of Alaska Anchorage
- Rebecca Levin, M.P.H.
Director, Strengthening Chicago's Youth, Injury Prevention and Research Center, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago
- Marjorie S. Rosenthal, M.D., M.P.H.
Assistant Director, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Program, Yale University School of Medicine
Panelists include:
- Maryam Kia-Keating, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Counseling, Clinical, and School Psychology, University of California, Santa Barbara
- Barbara J Tinney, M.S.W.
CEO/Executive Director, New Haven Family Alliance
Contact
Dr. Della Brown White, OHE, OD, NICHD
Tel: (301) 435-2712
Email: whitede@mail.nih.gov