A short distance can lead to a large difference in life expectancy. This is the focus of the Center’s life expectancy mapping project, a study that illustrates through media-friendly maps the vastly different health outcomes experienced by Americans living just a few miles apart. On March 4, 2015, the Center released the first in a…
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By Valerie Burrell-Muhammad, Dr. Mom, Community Researcher and Engaging Richmond team member The world of academia and research is a challenge for those who are not so blessed to work in that realm day in and day out. As a community researcher with Engaging Richmond (ER), we welcome the opportunity to help shape a better…
Civic engagement is at the core of both the Informed Neighbors Corps, a team of Creighton Court residents working to promote transparency and the well-being of residents throughout the redevelopment of Church Hill North and Engaging Richmond, a community-academic partnership comprised of East End residents and VCU Center on Society and Health staff. On Monday,…
Laudan Aron is a senior research associate in the Urban Institute’s Labor, Human Services and Population center. In this post, borrowed from the Urban Institute’s Metro Trends blog, she offers a set of guidelines for making community-based investments that promote health. Thankfully, the profound connections between healthy human development and the social and economic conditions…
Laudan Aron is a senior research associate in the Urban Institute’s Labor, Human Services and Population center. In this post, borrowed from the Urban Institute’s Metro Trends blog, she looks at the health of teenagers as an indicator of a community’s overall culture of health. Last week, I shared a starter list of principles that…
Mental Health First Aid. Since emerging as one of the top priorities in Engaging Richmond’s community needs assessment, mental health has been a focus of the ER team’s ongoing work. Recently, ER team member Chimere Miles (pictured above, third from right) became certified in mental health first aid training and has been training many East…
To mark the fourth anniversary of the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI), VCU researchers Steven Woolf and Alex Krist were invited to describe the influence that PCORI has had on their work and their perspectives on clinical research. An excerpt from their guest blog article on how their research has changed as they have engaged…
Quality health care is necessary to improve the health of disadvantaged populations – but it is not enough to eliminate the adverse effects of limited education, says a new policy brief. Released last week by the Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) Center on Society and Health, the brief features new Kaiser Permanente data and is supported…
The VCU Center on Society and Health is delighted to announce it has been approved for a $1.04 million funding award by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) to test a new framework, the SEED method, for conceptualizing and prioritizing research questions on health related topics through collaborative, participatory, and consultative stakeholder engagement. These stakeholders…
Since Engaging Richmond identified mental health in 2012 among the top community priorities in the East End of Richmond, the team has continued to partner with Richmond Promise Neighborhood (RPN) to bring resources and information that promote mental well-being to community residents. Among the activities Engaging Richmond has lead in recent months are the production…