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Nuts & bolts: community engagement research workshop

12/5/2017

 

​Last Friday, December 1, our mHealth Fellow attended a skill-building workshop on Community Engagement Research, hosted by the Johns Hopkins Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (ICTR).

To kick off the day, Dr. Kelly Bower, Assistant Professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, gave a wonderful introduction and overview of community engaged research. Dr. Bower's talk was interactive - bringing in comments and concerns from the audience on a number of occasions. It concluded with a fun game - "Real or not real?" - where audience members were presented with a case study and discussed whether or not it represented community engaged research.
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In the following segment, Dr. Sacoby Wilson, Associate Professor at the University of Maryland School of Public Health, delivered some powerful remarks that highlighted the interplay between community engaged research and environmental justice. Dr. Wilson emphasized the importance of putting community members at the forefront of community-based research projects, enabling them to dictate the research question, design, and implementation with the community's goals in mind.

In the afternoon, the workshop was broken up into three skill-building sessions, each of which focused on a different key element of community engagement research. Our mHealth Fellow attended the session entitled "Power Sharing and Collaboration in Community Engaged Research." Led by a trio of excellent facilitators, this session discussed challenges and practical solutions for distributing power evenly among research teams and community partners in collaborative projects. The session included three case studies, in which audience members teamed up and role played the various scenarios. This skill-building workshop was informative and practical, giving both researchers and community members concrete strategies  to implement in future partnerships.

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A few photos taken during the event

    Authors

    Rose Shan is the 2018-2019 Mobile Health Fellow for the mActive Team at the Johns Hopkins Ciccarone Center for the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease. Luke Silverman-Lloyd was the 2017-2018 mHealth Fellow.

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