Kellogg
Health Scholars Program:
Annual Networking Meeting 2008
Collaborative Thematic Workshops - Next Steps
Notes on Discussion
Workshop: HIV/AIDS
Disscussants: Kevin Robinson, Cheryl Dudley Brewster, Lester Spence
Organizers/Facilitators: Chandra Ford:
Participants:
Cheryl Brewster, C-Track, Discussant
Mysha Wynn, Com Mentor
Dionne Smith, C-Track, 2nd year scholar
Amanda Tanner, C-Track, Incoming scholar
Yvonne Ferguson, C-Track, Incoming scholar
Chandra Ford, MD, Facilitator
Kevin Robinson, Alum-CHSP, Discussant
Latrice Robinson, C-Track, incoming
Next steps
- Formation of a working group
- Generate a list of potential researchers whose work might inform the future collaborative efforts
- Work on edited book together
- Further explore possibilities of writing journal articles related to book chapters
- Identify additional community collaborators
- Identify funding sources
Workshop: Neighborhood Studies
Discussants: Ichiro Kawachi
Organizers/Facilitators: Phoenix Do
Discussion: Methodology; segregation; in group intersection of race gender and class; policy implications; how to bring together health care and health disparities.
Exchanges and informal relationships.
Workshop: Community Interventions
Speakers: Kim Sydnor, Eric Clay
Organizers/Facilitators: Anita Wells, Larkin Strong and GiShawn Mance
Workshop participants:
GiShawn Mance, Larkin Strong, Caree Jackson, Caryn Rodgers, Renee Bayer, Anita Wells, Kim Sydnor, Eric clay, DeWitt Webster.
Next steps –
The group decided to write a paper on sustaining community interventions maybe to PCHP. They will form a writing group and serve as a resource for each other.
Also talk with Eric Clay in terms of products that will assist CBOs and him as a partner. For example a section in the paper with practical guidelines for partners in thinking about sustainability at the beginning of a research project; a database of CBOs in Baltimore to increase coordination and collaboration and build on organizational strengths, and reduce duplication.
Contact persons: GiShawn, Larkin, Anita.
Workshop: Health Disparities and Community Engagement
Speakers: Stephen Thomas, Lovell Jones, Geni Eng
Organizers/Facilitators: Shawn Kimmel
Names of Workshop Participants (in addition to above):
Melvin Jackson,
Jamie Chatman,
Jan Dodds,
Barbara Israel,
Lee Bone,
Lucille H. Webb,
Anthony Omojasola,
Alexandre Lightfoot,
Betty Izumi,
Toby Citrin,
Rashid Njai
Summary
Focus of Discussion was to begin to identify opportunities for research that would identify the critical factors that allow “engaged institutions” to work most effectively with communities to eliminate health inequities, taking the NIH-funded Comprehensive Research Centers of Excellence in Minority Health Disparities (RCEMHD), and the Kellogg-funded Engaged Institutions Initiative, as examples.
Participants suggested a research project might focus on bringing the KHSP sites together to collaborate on a project that would examine these issues among all the KHSP sites. As facilitator, I suggested this could be an excellent way of bringing KHSP research faculty, community mentors, current scholars, site directors, and alumni together to work on a cross-site collaborative research project that would move forward the research, practice, and policy agendas of the entire KHSP program.
Next steps suggested were:
- Establish email list of participants to continue discussion.
- Begin to share resources/data that may contribute to developing this kind of collaborative research project
- Organize a workgroup planning session at the Barbara Jordan Conference Center (Public Affairs Center of the Kaiser Family Foundation in DC). [The Foundation will make the Conference Center and Broadcast Studio available free of charge to selected non-profit organizations to help them hold Washington D.C. events and webcast them to broader audiences.]
Contact person for future work of this group: Shawn Kimmel
Workshop: Place, Migration and Health
Speakers: Lisa Cacari Stone, Emma Sanchez,
Discussants: Mercedes Rubio, Denice Cora-Bramble
Facilitator: Shedra Amy Snipes
Participants:
Azure Thompson, Kellogg Pre-doctoral,
Lisa Rosas, MD Track,
Tricia Murando, MD Track
Emily Ihara, Alum Predoc/Geiger
Barbara Krimgold, Director NPO
Taqi Tirmazi, Community Track
Amy Snipes , MD Track, facilitator
Emma Sanchez, MD Track
Lisa Cacari Stone, MD Track
Next steps:
- Will meet at 1pm-3pm to continue our workgroup
- Working group already in place with “Migration, Place & Health” group organized by Dolores-Acerede-Garcia & David Williams.
- We will enhance & overlap with this group
- AAA (American Anthropological Association) Presidential Session with PR < coverage on Anti-immigration + Health Social Justice (tangible)
Contact Person for future work of this group: Amy Snipes
Workshop: Politics of Health Disparities
Discussant: Len Syme
Facilitator: Kalahn Taylor-Clark
Participants: Karen Ertel, Ann Zuvekas, Len Syme, Kalahn Taylor-Clark
Summary:
Discussion – how do we as scholars frame our work in the political agenda. What would the best lever be? Children’s health was chosen. How can we synthesize the literature around the life course and could there be legislation?
Next steps:
- Targeted approaches for childre
- -synthesis of literature
- CDF, interest groups, NCSL
- Brookings/NCSL
- Jack
- From Neurons to Neighborhoods
Contact person(s) for future work of this group: Kalahn Taylor-Clark (ktclark@brookings.edu)
