by CCPH | Aug 30, 2019 | Community-Academic Partnerships
“We are each other’s harvest; we are each other’s business; we are each other’s magnitude and bond.” Gwendolyn Brooks Chicago poet & first African American to win a Pulitzer Prize Community-Campus Partnerships for Health (CCPH) serves as a...
by CCPH | Aug 18, 2019 | Community-Academic Partnerships
The people who are behind this inspiring project: Coral Evans, MBA, and Lisa Hardy, PhD The creators of the Sunnyside Longevity Project work to bring to light the lack of health equity and social justice among residents in Flagstaff, Arizona’s Sunnyside neighborhood....
by CCPH | May 29, 2019 | Community-Academic Partnerships
I still recall my interview to join the board of Community-Campus Partnerships for Health (CCPH). I was encouraged to apply to the board by one of my most influential mentors in community engagement, Dr. Cynthia “Cee” Barnes-Boyd, who was an outgoing board...
by CCPH | May 6, 2019 | Community-Academic Partnerships
Last year, the Founding Editor of CES4Health.Info, Dr. Cathy Jordan, decided to step down to pursue new opportunities in her area of research and scholarship. We are extremely appreciative to Cathy for her contribution and commitment to CES4Health. As we move...
by CCPH | 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...
by CCPH | 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...
