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Leading the Way
A Joint Conference
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Registration is open!

Thursday, September 27th
8:30 am - 4:45 pm
Italian Conference Center
631 E. Chicago St
Milwaukee, WI

Go to the conference webpage for more information and to register for the conference.
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Leading the Way
A Joint Conference of AHW and WPP

Advancing a Healthier Wisconsin and Wisconsin Partnership Program
are jointly sponsoring a day-long conference to highlight and promote the successes and lessons learned of more than $200 million in funded projects.  Knowledge will be shared via: over 30 oral presentations, over 30 poster presentations, thematic poster presentations and an exhibit area to share products that have been developed from previous projects.

 

Conference Goals:

  • To build public support through dissemination of funded project results, achievements and lessons learned.
  • To acknowledge the contributions of individuals who were involved in, and responsible for, the creation and implementation of both Programs.
  • To highlight the scope and variety of community-engaged partnerships, research projects and educational collaborations formed over the past eight-year period.  
  • To promote informal discussions and the exchange of ideas among participants regarding their goals and efforts related to the AHW and WPP mission and vision.
  • To provide opportunities for researchers, educators and community-based organizations to connect and network around community-engaged research projects and partnerships.
Keynote Presenter: David R. Williams, Ph.D.
is the Florence Sprague Norman and Laura Smart Norman Professor of Public Health at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) and Professor of African and African American Studies and of Sociology at Harvard University.   He is internationally recognized as a leading social scientist focused on social influences on health. His research has enhanced our understanding of the complex ways in which race, racial discrimination, socioeconomic status and religious involvement can affect physical and mental health. The Everyday Discrimination scale that he developed is currently one of the most widely used measures to assess perceived discrimination in health studies. He is the author of more than 250 scholarly papers in scientific journals and edited collections and his research has appeared in leading journals in sociology, psychology, medicine, public health and epidemiology.

 

There will be no cost to attend this full day conference,

but advance registration is required.

 

Visit the conference webpage to register and to view details about the conference agenda.

Recently Featured HWPP Funded Projects
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Violence Prevention Initiative (VPI)
The Violence Prevention Initiative is a special initiative funded by the MCW Consortium on Public and Community Health.  One component of VPI is the Youth Leadership Council which provides leadership development and training.

Click here to listen to a RadioMilwaukee podcast featuring three youth discussing their experiences with the Violence Prevention Initiative's Youth Leadership Council.  The 'play button' for the MP3 audio file is located just below the picture of the MCW logo.

Community-based Chronic Disease Management (CCDM)
Community-based Chronic Disease Management (CCDM) is an Impact project funded through our 3rd and 6th funding cycles. CCDM will effect prevention of complications by screening for/managing hypertension, diabetes, and obesity at churches and food pantries that serve Milwaukee's poor and by promoting low-cost medicine, nutrition, and education in a tiered community model. The community partner is Columbia-St. Mary's Hospital.  The academic partner is Jim Sanders, MD, MPH - Family and Community Medicine.

Click here to view a news feature about CCDM as reported by Channel 12 WISN News.
 
CTSI of Southeast Wisconsin
CEnR - CER Bridge Building Workshop for CTSI Logo Improving Community Health

The Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) and its Community Engagement Key Function will be hosting a workshop on Tuesday, October 2nd at the UW-Milwaukee School of Continuing Education in downtown Milwaukee. The goal of the workshop is to bring together scientists practicing in the disciplines of Community Engagement in Research (CEnR) and Comparative Effectiveness Research (CER).  The CEnR-CER Bridge Building Day will be an interactive, full-day workshop that seeks to establish a preliminary dialogue on the philosophical and methodological similarities and differences between these two disciplines.  

 

By participating in this workshop CEnR and CER practitioners will:  

  • examine the national and local perspectives on collaborative research between Community Engagement and Comparative Effectiveness
  • actively participate in facilitated small group discussions to generate a framework for collaboration on a broad class of needs and assets
  • take part in networking with local researchers interested in collaborating on existing and new research initiatives

At the conclusion of the workshop it is our hope that attendees will have begun to identify opportunities for integrating the two disciplines as well as establishing new research collaborations.

 

Conference attendees to include researchers from the following fields:

  • Community Engagement
  • Comparative Effectiveness
  • Clinical Science
  • Population and Public Health
  • Health Sciences; including dentistry, medicine, nursing, pharmacology, informatics and technology
  • Social Sciences; including anthropology, political science, and economics
Please register using the CTSI's online registration form.

Please note - if you have not previously registered on the CTSI of Southeast Wisconsin webpage, you will need to complete that step before registering for the workshop. 

 

Contact Us:
Website: http://www.mcw.edu/healthierwipartnerships.htm
E-Mail: [email protected]
Phone: 414.955.4350

 

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PO Box 26509
Milwaukee, WI 53226