May 14-15, 2009
Natcher Conference Center
Building 45, Main Auditorium
NIH Campus
45 Center Drive
Bethesda, MD 20892

Improving Health WITH Communities: The Role of Community Engagement in Clinical and Translational Research

This event is free and open to the public.

Purpose

This is the second annual conference to discuss and share best practices and collaborate with communities and health care providers to improve health. Participants will develop recommendations for academic-community collaborations and partnerships with other community programs to establish research agendas. Discussions will include ways to transform the clinical research enterprise through effective collaboration. Best practices, effective collaboration strategies and successful models will be discussed and shared.

This conference will:

• Explore methods for Community Engagement within the context of clinical and translational research.
• Provide a forum for discussion of experiences and ideas concerning education and training of researchers and their teams in community-engagement principles and practices.
• Provide a forum for discussion of experiences and ideas concerning education and support of community partners working with researchers at academic institutions.
• Provide a networking opportunity across translational and clinical disciplines including new and established CTSA awardees and their respective community partners.
• Identify national and regional resources to support effective localized community engagement research efforts.

Who Should Attend?

• Multidisciplinary clinical investigators and practitioners (i.e., medical, dental, nursing, etc.)
• Community-based and academic researchers and practitioners
• Trans-NIH Community (CTSA, Roadmap CRNs, RCMI, IDeA, NCI, SEPA)
• Government agency and academic personnel (AHRQ PBRNs, CDC Prevention Research Centers, HRSA CHC Networks, Indian Health Service, Veteran’s Administration, HMO Research Networks, etc.)
• Deans of medical research and of community medical schools
• Partners/collaborators from Clinical Research Networks, Practice-based Research Networks, Community Health Center Networks, and others
• Members of practice-based research networks
• Community health center network participants
• Community clinician researchers
• Anyone with an interest in clinical and translational research

Keynote Speakers: 

• Barbara Alving, MD; Director of the National Center for Research Resources (NCRR) at NIH
• Steven H. Woolf, MD, MPH; Director of the Center for Human Needs at the Virginia Commonwealth University
• Eric Whittaker, MD; Executive Vice President for Strategic Affiliations and Associate Dean for Community-Based Research at the University of Chicago Medical Center

This program is sponsored through:

Cooperative Agreement by the National Center for Research Resources (NCRR) — a component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) — and the CTSA program of the Duke University (U13 RR025982-01)

Cooperative Agreement between the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Association for Prevention Teaching and Research (5U50CD300860-21)