3181.0 Town and gown: Community-academic partnerships

Monday, November 8, 2010: 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Poster
In an ideal world, public health practice and academia would inform and be informed by one another. In reality, there is often a gap between the two. This poster session presents projects that have successfully bridge the practice-academic gap to address a variety of public health issues.
Session Objectives: 1. Describe novel approaches to bridging the gap between academia and public health practice. 2. Discuss the challenges and benefits of community-academic partnerships.

Board 1
Partnering to serve underserved youth
Jean DuRussel-Weston, RN MPH CHES, Susan Aaronson, RD, Caren S. Goldberg, MD, LaVaughn M. Palma-Davis, MA, Catherine Fitzgerald, RD, Lindsey Rose Mitchell, MPH, Roopa Gurm, MS and Kim A. Eagle, MD
Board 2
Successes from a community-academic partnership: The identification and prioritization of health needs in rural Appalachian Ohio
Ronald Vance, MSN, RN, Tania Basta, PhD, MPH, CHES, Jennifer Bute, PhD and Sharon Denham, RN, DSN
Board 3
Project TEACH (Teaching Equity to Advance Community Health): A capacity building community-academic partnership to achieve health equity
Angela Sauaia, MD, PhD, Elaine Belansky, PhD, Carol Kaufman, PhD, Mariana Leon, Kris Wenzel, Jack M. Westfall, MD, MPH and Tim Byers, MD, MPH
        
Board 4
Building healthier lifestyles piece by piece: A community-academic partnership to strengthen monitoring and evaluation capacity along the Mississippi Gulf Coast
Tia Zeno, MPH, Deborah Colby, MEd, RD and Fannie Fonseca-Becker, DrPH, MPH, RD
Board 5
Librarians as information science specialists: Can they be gatekeepers for the National Environmental Public Health Tracking Network?
Stephen Luce, Courtney Lenard, Lisa Hines, MPH and Jennifer Moore, MPH
Board 6
Disseminating research findings to increase community engagement in research
Aimee S. James, PhD, MPH, MA, Victoria V. Anwuri, MPH, Brenda Battle, RN, MBA, Mikki (Mary) Brewster, MSW, Emma Ilori, MPH, CHES, Rosetta Keeton, MHA, Consuelo Wilkins, MD and Katherine Mathews, MD, MPH, MBA
Board 7
Central California Regional Obesity Prevention Program: A model for working regionally
Genoveva Islas-Hooker, MPH and Brandie Campbell
  
Board 8
Engaging community in developing, implementing, and evaluating a multilevel community-based culturally situated website
Carly Hutchinson, MA, Amy Kwan, MPH, Andrea M. Nye, MPH, MBA, Alwyn Cohall, MD and Mary E. Northridge, PhD, MPH
Board 9
W.K. Kellogg Foundation New Tools New Visions2 project: Utilizing participatory evaluation methods to inform best practices among community-academic partnerships
Mondi Mason, PhD, MPH, Cassandra Arroyo, PhD, Simone M. Charles, PhD, Padmini Shankar, PhD, RD, Emmanuel Clottey, MPH and Raymona Lawrence, DrPH, MPH
Board 10
Community Health Center and Public Library Partnerships (CHC-PL) promote systems change
Kathleen Digre, MD, Sally Patrick, MLS and Anna Erickson, BS

See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.

Organized by: Public Health Education and Health Promotion
Endorsed by: School Health Education and Services, Social Work

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