The Endeleo (Endeleo is Swahili for progress, growth and development) Institute is a nonprofit 501c3, a member organization of Trinity United Church of Christ, one of the largest African-American churches in the City of Chicago. Endeleo provides services through the lens of health, education and community development, all of which overlap and contribute to the [...]
Join us for the 3rd Annual Structural Inequalities Intensive hosted by CCPH in partnership with the Ashé Cultural Arts Center and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Program. The Structural Inequalities Intensive was launched In 2017 as a two-day intensive. That intensive was designed to provide individuals and communities with a historical understanding regarding [...]
I still recall my interview to join the board of Community-Campus Partnerships for Health (CCPH). I was encouraged to apply to the board by one of my most influential mentors in community engagement, Dr. Cynthia "Cee" Barnes-Boyd, who was an outgoing board member at the time. I remember the question asking me about how I ensure [...]
Last year, the Founding Editor of CES4Health.Info, Dr. Cathy Jordan, decided to step down to pursue new opportunities in her area of research and scholarship. We are extremely appreciative to Cathy for her contribution and commitment to CES4Health. As we move CES4Health.Info into the future, we have decided to make a few changes that will [...]
The mission of CCPH, “to promote health equity and social justice through partnerships between communities and academic institutions”, summarizes my career as a public and population health professional. The eradication of health disparities and commitment to social justice has been at the center of my work as a scientist and academic leader. Since 2013, I [...]
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 [...]