2011 SCIENTIFIC MEETING -- SPEAKER NOTES

Monday, March 21    Tuesday, March 22     Wednesday, March 23

Monday, March 21st

Keynote Address

Dr. Meredith Minkler

Community-Based Participatory Research: What is the Added Value for Health Behavior Research?

Meredith Minkler, DrPH, MPH

Professor and Director,

Dept. of Health and Social Behavior

School of Public Health

University of California at Berkeley

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PRESENTATION I:   "What Predicts Outcomes in CBPR"

Dr. Karina Walters, PhD, MSW,  Associate Professor, School of Social Work, University of Washington. 

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Dr. Sarah Hicks, PhD, Chief of Staff, National Indian Child Welfare Association. 

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PRESENTATION II:   "Establishing, Measuring, and Sustaining Community Academic Research Partnerships: Lessons Learned from the Detroit Community-Academic Urban Research Center"

Dr. Edith Parker, DrPH, Professor and Department Head, Department of Community and Behavioral Health, University of Iowa College of Public Health. 

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Wima Brakefield-Caldwell, RN, community activist and member,  Community Action Against Asthma. 

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PRESENTATION I:  "Improving Community Health Through CTSA Facilitated Community-Engaged Research and Parnerships"

Dr. Sergio Aguilar-Gaxiola, MD, PhD, Professor of Clinical Internal Medicine; Director of UC Davis Center for Reducing Heath Disparities; Co-Chair of Community Engagement Key Function Committee of CTSA, UC Davis Health Systems. 

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PRESENTATION II:  "A Model of Collaborative Community-Based Health Research: The Minding the Baby Home Visiting Program"

Dr. Lois Sadler, PhD, PNP-BC, FAAN, Associate Professor, Yale University School of Nursing and Yale Child Study Cente; Assistant Dean of Academic Affairs, Yale University School of Nursing. 

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PRESENTATION III:   "Chronic Disease Prevention and Control along the Arizona-Sonora Border: A Case Study for Community Based Participatory Research"

Dr. Lisa Staten, PhD, Division Director, Social and Behavioral Sciences, Department of Public Health, Indiana University. 

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Susan Kunz, MPH, Director of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Department, Mariposa Community Health Center. 

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PRESENTATION IV:   "Co-creatingChange with Communities: 12+ Years of Lessons Learned and Evolving Thoughts on What to Measure"

Dr. Robert McDermott, PhD, Co-Director, Florida Prevention Research Center; Professor, Public Health and Health Education, University of South Florida College of Public Health. 

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Jose Antonio Tovar-Aguilar, MA, Project Director, Florida Research Prevention Center's "Partnership for Citrus Worker Health." 

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PRESENTATION I:  "The Center for Native Health Partnerships: Building research partnerships... Improving health"

Dr. Susan Christopher, PhD, Professor of Community Health, Montana State University. 

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Ms. Alma Knows His Gun McCormick, Project Coordinator, Messengers for Health; Steering Committee Member, Center for Native Health Partnerships, Montana State University. 

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PRESENTATION II: "Project Grace: A Community Based Participatory Research Approach to HIV Reduction in Rural African American Communities"

Dr. Giselle Corbie-Smith, MD, Professor, Social Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill' Co-Director, Program on Health Disparities, UNC Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research; Director, Community Engagement Core of the NC Translational and Clinical Sciences Institute; Director, Minority Recruitment Core of Carolina-Shaw Partnership for the Elimination of Health Disparities. 

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Ms. Stacey Henderson, MEd, Founder and Executive Director, Dynasty Health Solutions Incorporated. 

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PRESENTATION III: "The Future of Health Behavior Research and CBPR: Challenges and Opportunities"

Dr. Lawrence Green, DrPH, DSc Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Medicine, University of California at San Francisco; Comprehensive Cancer Center and Center for Tobacco Research and Education, Univeristy of California at San Francisco. 

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