Community Engagement Working Group

The Community Engagement Working Group (CEWG) is composed of leaders and relevant stakeholders from each funded center who meet monthly. Leadership of the CEWG will rotate on an annual basis between the 11 centers. We strive to ensure that co-leadership of the CEWG is shared between academic and community partners. The CEWG's work is coordinated by the Research Coordinating Center's Community Engagement Unit.

Key Activities

Opportunities for collaboration
Identifying structural challenges in Community Engagement
Sharing best practices and lessons learned
Accelerating the development of subcommittees to develop manuscripts, Op-Eds and other forms of communications to promote new approaches to community engagement

Subcommittees

The Evaluation Metrics Subcommittee is comprised of self-identiﬁed members of the CEWG. It is charged with vetting, selecting, and paring down a suite of evaluation metrics for all consortium members to collect over the life of the award. The subcommittee meets on a monthly basis and vets a list of validated Community Engagement measures that capture and characterize a commitment to community partner involvement at all levels of the research process including: crafting RFAs (pilot studies); reviewing proposals; participating on research teams; crafting questions; participating in data collection, analysis, interpretation and drafting of manuscripts, white papers and other opinion pieces.

ACHIEVE GREATER

Toria Turner

Wayne State University

Ijeoma Opara, MD

Wayne State University

Rhonda Dailey, MD

Wayne State University

Elizabeth Towner, PhD

Wayne State University

C2DREAM

Antony Stately, PhD

Native American Community Clinic

Rebekah Pratt, PhD

University of Minnesota

Maiyia Kasouaher, PhD

University of Minnesota

Yasamin Graff, MPH

University of Minnesota

C3EN

David Ansell, MD, MPH

Rush University

Sheila Dugan, MD

Rush University

Doriane Miller, MD

University of Chicago

Darryl Jenkins

Faith Community Church of Itasca

Uche Onwuta, MPH, MS

Kane County Health Department

Christie Edwards, MPH

Rush University

Verneda Bachus, DHA, MA, MBA

Friend Family Health Center

Raul Garza

CAHPE

Keith Chan, PhD, MSW

Hunter College

Emerson Ea, BSN, DNP, MS, PhD

New York University

COMMUNITY

Judelysse (Judy) Gomez, PhD

Hunter College

Elizabeth Cohn, PhD, RN

Hunter College

Olajide Williams, MD, MS

Columbia University Health Sciences

Desiree Walker, BA

Columbia University Health Sciences

Nicole Bayne, MPH, RN

Columbia University Health Sciences

Mary Beth Terry, PhD

Columbia University Health Sciences

Jhovelis (Jhovie) Mañaná

CRHSJ

Pebbles Fagan, PhD, MPH

University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences

Carol Ellen Cornell, PhD

University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences

Kristina Hood, PhD

Virginia Commonwealth University

FAC

Vivian Carter, PhD

Tuskegee University

Caroline Compretta, PhD

University of Mississippi Medical Center

D’Andra Odom, MPA

Pennington Biomedical Research Center

Adrianne Marbury, MPA

University of Alabama at Birmingham

MACCHE

Chidinma Ibe, PhD

Johns Hopkins University

Debra Hickman

Sisters Together and Reaching (STAR)

Deven Brown, MPA

Johns Hopkins University

SCCLH

Nicole Wolfe, PhD

University of Southern California

Adriana Argaiz, MSSP

University of Southern California

Rosa Barahona, BA

University of Southern California

Lourdes Baezconde-Garbanati, PhD, MPH

University of Southern California

Michele Kipke, PhD

Children's Hospital Los Angeles

Anna Peare, MPH

Children's Hospital Los Angeles

Southeast Collaborative

Olveen Carrasquillo, MPH, MD

University of Miami

Arthur Blank, PhD

Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Rocio Bustamante, RBT

University of Miami

Ana Palacio, MD, MPH

University of Miami

Selena Carpenter, MEd

Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Robert Taylor, MPA

Meharry Medical College

Juliet Nyanamba, PhD

Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Ana Riccio, MD

University of Miami

Philip Law

University of Miami

UC-END DISPARITIES

Pamela Pimentel, BS

University of California, Irvine

Mona AuYoung, PhD, MPH, MS

University of California, Los Angeles

Aziza Lucas-Wright, MEd

Charles R. Drew University of Medicine

Sora Tanjasiri, DrPH, MPH

University of California, Irvine

Keith Norris, MD, PhD

University of California, Los Angeles

Krystal Lloyd, MPH

University of California, Los Angeles

Emily Drum, MPH

University of California, Irvine

Stefanie Vassar, MS

University of California, Los Angeles

Arleen Brown, MD, PhD

University of California, Los Angeles

Alana LeBrón

University of California, Irvine