• ChicagoCHEC 7th Annual Community Forum September 22-23

• 16th Annual Lewis Landsberg Research Day: September 15, 2022

ARCC partners had a great time in East Garfield Park this week volunteering at FarmWorks, a program of ARCC Steering Committee Member Heartland Alliance, This 2.6 acre urban farm grows produce supplying multiple food pantries and also serves as a work site for a Heartland transitional jobs training program. 

A new elective course in the NUCATS Institute's Master of Science in Clinical Investigation (MSCI) program explores the role of community engagement in clinical investigation, including its merits and challenges. Students will learn the history and principles of community-engaged research (CEnR), including the philosophical orientations that underlie CEnR such as critical consciousness and feminism, its various manifestations as participatory/action research, its application through an array of community-based participatory methods, and its delivery through community-academic partnerships. The course has community and academic course co-directors.



Community Engagement (MSCI 350)

• The Class meets for 10 weeks on Wednesday's from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m.
• First session: September 21
• Community Course Co-Director: Pedro A. Serrano, MPH, CPH, staff at Ruth M. Rothstein CORE Center
• Academic Course Co-Director: Gregory Phillips II, PhD, MS, assistant professor in the Department of Medical Social Sciences and founder of the research program in Evaluation, Data Integration, and Technical Assistance (EDIT)
• Open to degree and non-degree students

For enrollment instructions, contact MSCI degree administrator Adam White

One way that the Center for Community Health (CCH) is helping translate research findings into practice more quickly is through Stakeholder-Academic Resource Panels (ShARPs)

Upcoming Session Opportunity:

A team from Northwestern University aims to learn how new parents are finding emotional and psychological support from family, friends, and the healthcare system in the midst of the Covid pandemic. This team is specifically interested in hearing from new mothers and fathers of infants who were born during the covid pandemic.

Specifically, they want to hear from:

• First time mothers of an infant who is less than 12 months old
• First time fathers of an infant who is less than 12 months old
• Infants who are generally healthy and do not have a chronic or congenital illness

Also would like to hear from adults who:

• Provide care/support to mothers/fathers described above (as community health worker, social service provider, etc.)

Session will take place: Wednesday August 31, 2022

Time: 6-7:30 pm

Location: via web conference (zoom)

For more Information on upcoming ShARPs:

Contact Josefina Serrato, josefina.serrato@northwestern.edu

To request a ShARP or learn more about other CCH consultation services, Click here or visit here.