Community-Based Participatory Research
Session 1: Building Research Relationships with Communities
Feb 29th, 2016 1:15 -3:15 PM
Session 2: Methods for Establishing a Collaborative Research Project
March 7th, 2016 1:15 -3:15 PM
Pre-Registration Required
Presenters:
Jean J. Schensul, Ph.D., Founding Director and Senior Scientist at the Institute for Community Research, is a medical anthropologist with more than three decades of experience in Directing CBPR development and implementation at the Hispanic Health Council and the Institute for community Research in Hartford, with NIH and other funding sources. Her research includes health and substance use across the developmental spectrum with partners in African-American, West Indian, Latino and international communities, especially in South Asia.
Margaret R. Weeks, Ph.D., is Executive Director and Senior Scientist of the Institute for the Community Research (ICR) in Hartford CT, where she has conducted applied, community-based participatory research for over 25 years. She is an anthropologist and social and behavioral scientist whose research focuses on prevention of HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted infections among urban U.S drug users, high risk women in the U.S and China and other at risk populations.
Heather Mosher, Ph.D., is a social/community psychologist and Research Associate at ICR with expertise in community based participatory research and participatory action research. She has extensive experience conducting CBPR and PAR in collaboration with young adults across the range of community settings. With a background as a professional documentary filmmaker, she specializes in integrating the use of visual research methods into PAR as a means to enhancing documentation, analysis, and impact of action research findings through more accessible and engaging research dissemination.
Kim E. Radda, R.N, M.A., is Research Associate at the Institute for Community Research. She is currently Co-investigator on an NIDCR-founded oral health study and the community Liaison for the Harford-based Community Engagement in Research Program/Community Research Alliance. She is Co-Chair of the ICR’s IRB and CT’s Older Adult Health Consortium and a member of UConn Health IRB. Kim has conducted extensive community-based research on substance abuse, HIV risk, and health and mental of older adults as well as research on rural women’s social and economic roles in Mexico and has developed and implemented arts-based interventions to provide opportunities for elderly and at-risk individuals to tell their stories.
Registration Required by February 16th, 2016
Attendance will be confirmed by a follow up email
Please pre-register by sending an email to: neuacsc@UConn.edu
For more information, contact: Edlira Kostallari at 860 486 7175