Community-Engaged Research to Advance Health Equity: Co-creating Knowledge through Research (2023)

Co-sponsored by the Clinical & Translational Science Institute Community Engagement Program

Are you eager to advance social justice and health equity? Are you wondering how to address sponsors’ requests to describe your plans for engaging community in research?

This workshop will describe what it takes to shift power to community through research. The workshop will feature insights from researchers who have built careers in community-engaged work for health equity: Linda Sprague Martinez, PhD (SSW) and Tracy Battaglia, MD, MPH (MED). Learn about and discuss:

How institutional structures and white supremacy shape the academic research enterprise
Steps you can take to co-design and submit research proposals with communities
Resources at BU that will help you grow in your ability to practice the principles of community engaged and participatory research