Community-Engaged Research Conference

Sponsored by

Center for Community Health
Feinberg Community of Practice for Community Engagement

tuesday, June 4, 2024

Registration 9:30am welcome 10:00am

Simpson Querrey Biomedical Research Center

303 e. superior street

Gathering faculty and staff researchers at Northwestern from across Chicago and Evanston campuses focused on health equity to build relationships, share information and best practices, and to better understand the landscape of community-engaged research at Northwestern and the Chicagoland areas we serve.

Agenda

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Guest Speaker

Glenance Green, PhD

Co-Founder and Executive Director of the Black Researchers Collective

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Dr. Glenance Green is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of the Black Researchers Collective. She is a researcher, writer, community organizer, and filmmaker who uses various art forms as tools of healing and liberation for systemic change. Glenance is the Co-Host of Research in the Streets, the official podcast of the Black Researchers Collective, and the former Co-Host of IL Informed, a podcast about Illinois politics, government, and how the heck it all works (or doesn’t) in Springfield. With over 15 years of research and non-profit experience — and a strong track record of leading successful research, evaluation, and technical assistance efforts — Glenance has been keenly focused on institutionalizing racial equity at the state and local levels. Focused on strengthening her practice, Glenance was a 2019 Racial Equity Fellow for Chicago United for Equity and a 2020 Fellow for New Leaders Council. She serves on the Advisory Council on Equity for the City of Chicago, the Board of Directors for Kuumba Lynx, and is the Chair of the Economic Development Committee for the Grand Boulevard Advisory Council and the President of a Block Club in the Chicago community of Bronzeville. Glenance holds both a BA and MA in Sociology from Loyola University Chicago and DePaul University, respectively, and a PhD in Policy Studies in Urban Education from the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Conference Agenda

updated May 16, 2024

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

To bring together researchers (faculty and staff) from across Chicago and Evanston campuses focused on health equity to build relationships, share information, best practices and to better understand the landscape of community-engaged research at NU and the Chicagoland areas we serve.
To establish connections and foster collaborations across centers and departments.
To discuss strategies to better engage collectively with new and established community-based partners and organizations

9:30am	Registration and Breakfast
10:00am	Welcome and Remarks Darius Tandon, PhD Professor, Medical Social Sciences Director, Center for Community Health (CCH) Ronald T Ackermann, MD, MPH James Roscoe Miller Professor of Medicine Senior Associate Dean for Public Health Director, Institute for Public Health and Medicine (IPHAM)
10:15am	Guest Speaker Glenance Green, PhD Co-Founder and Executive Director, Black Researchers Collective
10:45am	“Community Outreach and Engagement at the Lurie Cancer Center” Tarneka Manning, M.Ed. Administrative Director, Office of Equity and Minority Health Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University (RHLCC)
	“Overview of CCH Infrastructure Programs” Sherida Morrison, MA, MS Associate Director, Alliance for Research in Chicagoland Communities (ARCC) Josefina Serrato Consultations Manager Center for Community Health (CCH)
	“Systems-Informed Empowerment Evaluation: Community Engagement for HIV Evaluation” Gregory Phillips II, PhD, MS Associate Professor, Department of Medical Social Sciences, Department of Preventive Medicine Director, Evaluation, Data Integration, and Technical Assistance (EDIT) Program Erik Glenn, MSW Associate Director, EDIT Program Institute for Sexual and Gender Minority Health and Wellbeing (ISGMH)
	“Participatory Science: Building D&I Bridges Over Troubled Waters” Cory D. Bradley, PhD, MPH, MSW Assistant Professor Center for Dissemination & Implementation Science (CDIS)
	“Community Engagement – Thinking Outside the Northwestern University Box” Magdalena "Maggie" Nava Erin Chen Sydney J. Alairys Center for Health Equity Transformation (CHET)
12:30pm	Lunch
1:15pm	“IRB Considerations for Community Research” Andrea Reyes, MSL Biomedical IRB Analyst Associate Laura Loeb, PhD, CIP Senior IRB Alayst Christina Spicer, JD IRB Reliance Analyst Institutional Review Board Office
	“New City of Chicago Lobbying Ordinance Updates” Jennifer Kunde Executive Director, Government Relations
	“Unlocking the Power of Community Advisory Boards: Lessons Learned in Enhancing Team Science and Community-Engaged Research” Madison Hartstein Northwestern University Clinical and Translational Sciences (NUCATS) - Team Science
	“ACTIVATE: Academic Community parTnerships to Increase Vaccination in Black and/or of African descent identifying communiTiEs” Rosalind Ramsey-Goldman, MD Gallagher Research Professor of Rheumatology, Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine
	“How to do Research with, not on, LGBTQ+ Communities” Pedro Alonso Serrano, MPH, CPH Senior Project Manager, EDIT Michelle A Birkett, PhD Associate Professor, Department of Medical Social Sciences and Department of Preventive Medicine Institute for Sexual and Gender Minority Health and Wellbeing (ISGMH)
	“Diversifying Dementia Research through Bidirectional Community Academic Engagement” Darby Morhardt PhD, LCSW Research Professor, Department of Preventive Medicine Director, Outreach, Recruitment and Community Engagement Core and Director, Social Work and Quality of Life Initiatives Janie Urbanic, MA, LPC Founding Director, South Loop Village Mesulam Center for Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer’s Disease (Mesulam Center)
3:00pm	Networking Reception