February 24, 2022
Home to the Alliance for Research in Chicagoland Communities (ARCC)
and Northwestern Primary Care Practice-Based Research Program (NP3) 
Current resources and services focus primarily on research:
 
Partnership brokering & development
 
Workshops, seminars & team training
Funding opportunities
 
Consultations, proposal review & support
 
 Patient, Clinician & Stakeholder Engagement
 
To learn more, please visit our website
Northwestern Primary Care Practice-based Research Program (NP3) seed grants - deadline to contact NP3: March 2 (full application due April, 1).


 CCH Research Faculty Position Application Due March 31
PCORI welcomes nominations and applications to join one of our five Advisory Panels through March 31, 2022. These panels (Healthcare Delivery and Disparities Research Panel, Patient Engagement Panel, Clinical Trials Panel, Rare Disease Panel, and Clinical Effectiveness and Decision Science Panel) are intended to reflect the priorities of our many stakeholders. Advisory Panelists work with other stakeholders to help PCORI shape our research funding priorities.

Learn more about the openings during a town hall on February 16 and during office hours on March 14.

Jen Brown, ARCC Co-Director, serves as a member of the PCORI Advisory Panel on Patient Engagement. PCORI shared a video earlier this week of Jen speaking about how institutional and structural investments in communities show authenticity and care and how building trust results in better engagement in healthcare research. Access here: https://www.pcori.org/video/investing-communities-beyond-research
ARCC in collaboration with the Equity Institute-YWCA Evanston/NorthShore is opening up the ARCC Community-Academic Anti-Racism Learning Collaborative to more people. Launched in 2020, the Collaborative convenes a diverse mix of community and academic partners to engage together in a supportive space to question, learn, and address how racism operates in research institutions and policies and how community-academic research partnerships can apply an equity lens to their research and partnerships. The Collaborative will support participants through three components: 1) Virtual Intro to Collaborative & ARCC Reflective Practice Tool (Mar/Apr 2022); 2) Quarterly Virtual Collaborative Learning Sessions (starting late Spring 2022); & 3) Resource Sharing & Network Building (Ongoing). Inviting Chicagoland community stakeholders and Northwestern academic stakeholders to participate.

Details & Link to sign up here by March 4, 2022.
CCH's Center Administrator Dan Sylvster's last day with the Center will be February 28th. Dan will be starting a new position at The Nature Conservancy this March working with them as a Finance Manager. 

Dan has been with CCH since 2016, first as a Research Administrator and then beginning in 2019 as our Center Administrator. In his time as CCH Administrator, Dan has done an amazing job of overseeing considerable growth at CCH and supporting the work of many community and academic partners. 

While we are sad to see Dan leave CCH, IPHAM, and Northwestern after so many years, we wish him all the best in his new position!
In a new resource posted on www.ARCCresources.net Gloria Dotson-Lewis, ARCC Seed Grant Community Lead and Founder/Executive Director of Distinctively Me, shares the story of why she pursued an academic research partnership and her reflections on building a respectful and mutually beneficial collaboration. Access the short 15-minute video & slides here.

Learn more about ARCC's open Request for Applications for three types of Seed Grants: Community Research Capacity-Building, Partnership Development, and Research Pilots. Deadlines in April and May. 
The Center for Community Health is supported, in part, by the
Northwestern University Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute,
Grant Number UL1TR001422 from the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, Clinical and Translational Sciences Award and
the Institute of Public Health and Medicine (IPHAM).
Center for Community Health
http://www.feinberg.northwestern.edu/sites/cch/
cch@northwestern.edu