Table of Contents:
- Upcoming Networking Meeting
- Scholar Program Plan
- Job Opening
- Call for Presentations
- Kudos
1. Upcoming
Networking Meeting
Make Travel Arrangements
Reminder from Saundra: It's time to make your travel plans to the 2001 Community
Health Scholars Program Networking Meeting. The Fourth Annual CHSP Networking
Meeting scheduled for June 6-8, 2001 will be held in Detroit/Flint Michigan.
Since we are traveling by van from Detroit to Flint on Thursday, June 7, all
participants need to arrive no later than the evening of Wednesday, June 6.
Please NOTE there will be a dinner exclusively for scholars and alums starting
at 6:00 pm on Wednesday, June 6. Return flights should depart after 6:00 pm
on Friday, June 8th. Please note that the Boersma Travel Agency has changed
their toll free number to 1-800-451-8675.
Preview of Panel Discussions
Here are the discussion topics for the upcoming Networking meeting:
Thursday afternoon:
Styles of Research
Definition of Success
The Role of Mentors & Advisors
How We are Doing Creating a Community of Scholars?
Friday afternoon:
Progressing Along the Career Path:
1. What is the market?
2. Getting the job.
3. Getting started in the community.
4. Getting started in academia.
Your thoughts about the content of these discussions and questions that should
be answered would be helpful.
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2. Scholar Program Plan
Excerpts from Andriette Ward’s Program Plan
"During my current fellowship as a Community Health Scholar, I will
complete a formative evaluation of a representative school by using focus group
discussions, in-depth interviews, and surveys of students, faculty, administration,
and food services personnel. I will similarly survey health care providers...and
community-based individuals and organizations.... With this information I hope
to acquire the background information necessary to initiate a healthy dialogue
with key informants...and then develop a protocol for linking schools, health
care providers and community groups to optimize utilization of available resources
and create a new model for health promotion."
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3. Job Opening
Director
Curriculum for Reducing Health Disparities for the Dean's Office, School of
Public Health. Proposed Start Date: ASAP. The University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill is soliciting for a faculty position to direct a new curriculum
in health disparities for its Health Care and Prevention Masters of Public Health
(MPH) concentration. Application deadline is June 15, 2001.
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4. Call for Presentations
Last year, Vivian Chavez presented her research on use of video and community-based
participatory research at this conference. Invitation to present at the Loka
Institute's 4th Annual Community Research Network (CRN) Conference, entitled,
"Re-shaping the Culture of Research: People, Participation, Partnerships
and Practical Tools" to be held at the University of Texas in Austin, July
6-8, 2001. Deadline: MAY 25, 2001. If you have any questions, please
contact Khan Rahi at 416-406-5517 or aackrahi@web.ca,
or the Loka Institute at 413-559-5860 or Loka@Loka.org.
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5. Kudos
Incoming Scholar Scott Rhodes reports that he successfully defended
his dissertation. "I am done!"
Andriette Ward presented a poster presentation at the Ambulatory Pediatric
Assoication Conference, April 28 - May 1, 2001 in Baltimore. The poster was
entitled "Obesity linked to elevated blood pressure among ethnic minority
adolescents" and was co-authored by McCarthy, Yancey, Gonzalez, Leslie,
and Siegel.
This message was passed along to his department by Harold Pollack, a faculty
member in Health Management and Policy at University of Michigan: "Our post-doctoral
colleague Katherine Alaimo has a nice article on food insecurity in the
current AJPH. I recommend it--and congrats to Katherine."
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