![]() In April 2010 the Long Island Think Tank for Black Progress (formerly the Think Tank for African American Progress-Long Island) held a solution-focused national convening of multi-disciplinary researchers, community activists, policymakers, and thought leaders to discuss solutions and strategies to implement solutions for challenges confronting black communities. Create a pool of trained community members that can serve on the institutional review boards and community research advisory boards.Develop culturally appropriate interventions.Build the infrastructure for community-based participatory research that explores and addresses community health concerns.Enhance the community’s knowledge and understanding of research.Unite key community stakeholders to improve health outcomes by pooling member resources into one comprehensive community based research network.The key elements of CARES are to train community representatives to serve as the bidirectional conduit between the Long Island community and Stony Brook University researchers. CARES is an independent community based research partnership designed to work with communities utilizing the principles of Community Based Participatory Research (CBPR) to examine and address the social and behavioral risk factors that impact population health outcomes for chronic illness on Long Island. received a grant from National Institutes of Health (NIH) Public Trust Initiative to develop the Community Alliance for Research Empowering Social Change (CARES). The Center for Public Health & Health Policy Research in collaboration with Literacy Suffolk Inc. New York State Assembly Citation, Commitment to academic excellence (1995)Ĭommunity Alliance for Research Empowering Social Change(CARES) Provost Award for Academic Excellence, SUNY at Stony Brook (1999) Drum Major Leadership Award, Hollywood Baptist Cathedral, Proclamation from Suffolk County Executive (2007)ĭistinction in Teaching Award, Department of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health The President’s Award for Excellence in Team Achievement, Stony Brook University, SARAS Team( for exemplary creativity and collaboration across departmental lines and for demonstrating that the achievement of the whole is greater than the sum of its parts) (2008)ĭr. Robert Wood Johnson Foundation New Connections Research & Coaching Clinic, American Public Health Association Annual Research Meeting Travel Stipend (2007,2008,2009) New York State Minority Health Council, Appointed Member (2010-2015)Īcademic Co-Chair, Presentation and Publications Work Group Community Based Public Health Caucus, American Public Health Association (2010) Examination of social, lifestyle and behavioral risk factors that contribute to racial and ethnic disparities in preventable and manageable chronic illness.Forging community-campus research partnerships and community based public health practice.Community based participatory research theory, practice and implementation. ![]() ![]()
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