Category: Community Partnership
Rev. Kearney empowers communities to celebrate their role in environmental justice movement
September 16, 2022Community members, university officials, activists, and clergy will gather in Warrenton, N.C. on September 17 to mark the 40th anniversary of the protests that launched the environmental justice movem … Read more
Partnership Spotlight: Exploring Six Years of Community Engagement
May 2, 2016How can you see the impact of engaged research? Sometimes all you need to do is look at what’s being served to drink at the church potluck dinners. Linda Riggins began working with researchers … Read more
Lightfoot honored by APHA for community-based public health research
November 25, 2015Alexandra Lightfoot, EdD, received the 2015 Tom Bruce Award at a Nov. 3 meeting of the American Public Health Association (APHA). Lightfoot is a research assistant professor in the Department of Healt … Read more
HPDP researchers connect community members with hospitals in Lehigh Valley
March 5, 2014After a two year partnership with the UNC Office of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, five area hospitals in Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania have ratified the Community Health Needs Assessment and … Read more
HPDP Deputy Director publishes guide for engaging faith-based communities
February 17, 2014HPDP Researcher Lori Carter-Edwards, Ph.D., recently published a chapter in Lead the way: principles and practices in community and civic engagement, a book that will act as a public health guide for … Read more
Former CBPR trainee’s research seeks to reduce sexual health disparities in young African American women
July 7, 2013Former UNC WK Kellogg Health Scholar Briana Woods-Jaeger is making strides to reduce sexual health disparities among African American female youth. Woods-Jaeger is the principal investigator on a teen … Read more
Training with HPDP’s CBPR Core leads to engaged research at the University of Iowa
July 7, 2013Barbara Baquero, a Kellogg Health Scholar at the UNC Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention from 2010 to 2012, is continuing her work in community-based participatory research (CBPR) at t … Read more
Partnership with NC American Indian communities leads to healthy changes
May 30, 2013After more than five years community collaboration, researchers at the UNC Office of the Health Promotion and Disease Prevention are continuing to fight health disparities in North Carolina American I … Read more
Leadership award unites two HPDP community research partners
January 8, 2013Researchers at the UNC Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention partner with community leaders to address urgent health issues in communities across the state and nation. Last fall, one of H … Read more
HPDP researchers celebrate birth of environmental justice movement in Warren County
October 18, 2012HPDP researchers joined with community partners to celebrate the birth of the environmental justice movement in Warren County on September 16th. In 1978, toxic waste including polychlorinated biphenyl … Read more