Alicia Aroche, CSH research associate for community engagement, presented to a group of pediatric residents about trauma-informed care and research about adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) on February 3 at the Children’s Hospital of Richmond at VCU Children’s Pavilion. ACEs are of particular importance for pediatric physicians to be aware of. According to research done by…
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Sarah Cook, CSH research epidemiologist, and Chanel Bea, CSH community engagement assistant, spoke to a group of second- and third-year pediatric residents on February 9 at the Children’s Hospital of Richmond at VCU Children’s Pavilion about using community engagement and community-engaged research in medical practice. Community-engaged research involves engaging stakeholders and community partners in designing and…
The Center on Society and Health is pleased to announce that Chanel Bea has accepted a full-time position as the Center’s Community Engagement Assistant. Ms. Bea started working with the Center five years ago as one of the founding members of Engaging Richmond and has since worked on several Engaging Richmond projects, most recently on…
At a briefing event hosted by Health Affairs on April 7 in Washington, DC, CSH Director Steve Woolf and Community Researcher Chanel Bea gave compelling interviews on the important benefits of community and patient engagement to improve health and health care delivery in our country. Health Affairs in partnership with the Patient Centered Outcomes Research…
Engaging Richmond team member Chimere Miles has been nominated for the Mrs. Mary Thompson “Mrs. T” Community Engagement Award to be presented February 13, 2016 at the Inaugural Good Neighbor Awards hosted by Storefront. Ms. Miles will be among four Richmond residents recognized at the Awards for their work to realize the potential of the…
On Friday November 13th, Engaging Richmond hosted a celebration luncheon at the East District Family Resource Center to celebrate the work and contributions of project participants in VCU Center on Society and Health’s SEED Method Study, a novel approach designed to engage community stakeholders in developing research questions around health related topics. These community stakeholders…
As part of the Center’s ongoing work on the Big Data Demonstration Project, director Steve Woolf, and one of the Center’s community engagement leaders, Amber Haley, traveled to San Diego to meet with the project’s Community Design Team as well as research partners from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) and the San Diego…
Article by Travis White, Engaging Richmond member Engaging Richmond has been working hard on its latest community research project and has been actively reaching out and partnering with community organizations and their members. On August 20, 2015 Engaging Richmond members participated in the 3rd annual East End Community Field Day hosted by Richmond Promise Neighborhood…
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…