I first learned about community-based public health (CBPH) as a graduate student at the University of Michigan School of Public Health. I was on the health policy track in the Master of Public Health program in the Department of Health Management and Policy (HMP). I attended Michigan from 1997-1999 and I was one of a [...]
More than 100 years since the historic Flexner report highlighting the systemic challenges of American medical schools, we continue to face challenges in the process and climate of medical education. A recent revelation of an American medical college yearbook containing a horrific and derogatory photo associated with a historical demeaning portrayal of Black people and [...]
I cut my teeth on community work when, as a newly minted garden variety college history major, I elected to become a VISTA volunteer. I was sent to work in northeast Tennessee’s Hancock County. This was in 1969 when, while the nation was in upheaval, we still had plenty of optimism that we could make [...]
I was aware of environmental injustice, the differential burden of environmental hazards and locally unwanted land uses (LULUs) on communities of color, low-income populations, indigenous peoples, and marginalized groups, such as petrochemical facilities, refineries, power plants, landfills, incinerators, heavily-trafficked roadways, that act as sources of pollution as a young kid growing up in Mississippi. My [...]
It was fall of 2007 and I was serving as the Director of University Neighborhood Partners, community-university partnership on the west side of Salt Lake City, Utah. With a long history of serving as gateway communities for families of immigrant and refugee backgrounds, the neighborhoods on the west side of Salt Lake City are home [...]
At the recent APHA Meeting in San Diego, CCPH was involved in both giving and receiving several awards. We shared a little bit about the RWJF-CCPH Award for Equity that was given to to key leaders from Messengers for Health and Montana State University. Melissa Green also received the Lucille Webb Award at the Celebration [...]
Loretta Jones, CEO of Healthy African Americans of Los Angeles died on Thursday, November 22nd. Loretta is known internationally for her visionary leadership in advancing health equity. She was a long-time partner with CCPH having worked most recently with Executive Director, Al Richmond on the Engage4Equity Project based at the University of New Mexico. [...]
In 2015, Community-Campus Partnerships for Health (CCPH) partnered with Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) to award the RWJF Award for Health Equity Presented by CCPH (RWJF-CCPH Award). This award highlights the power and potential of community-campus partnerships successfully using systems and policy change needed to overcome the root causes of health, social, environmental and economic [...]
I intimately see anti-immigrant sentiment played out in my day-to-day life – personally and professionally. My work over the past almost 20 years has focused on African immigrants and refugees in Massachusetts and nationally, specifically building community-led solutions for HIV/STD service delivery, research, training and advocacy. Too often African immigrants and refugees are lost under [...]
The 2018 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Award For Health Equity Presented by Community-Campus Partnerships for Health (RWJF-CCPH Award) Call for Applications deadline has been extended to September 15, 2018! 2017 RWJF-CCPH Award Winners: Nashville Health Disparities Coalition The RWJF-CCPH Award highlights the power and potential of community-campus partnerships successfully using systems and policy change [...]
