TSI Community Engagement

The goal of the Community Engagement initiative within the TSI is to facilitate collaboration among community members, community health care providers, and scientists in the translational research enterprize.  This overall goal is being realized through the achievement of five specific areas.

• Create programs that build, sustain, and expand the interest and capacity of community members to collaborate in translational science.
  
  
• Build, sustain, and expand the interest and capacity of community health care providers to collaborate in translational science.
  
  
• Implement programs to expand the commitment and capacity of researchers in the TSI and collaborating partners to engage community members and community health care providers in translational science.
  
  
• Support the development and implementation of community-based research.
  
  
• Advance and disseminate knowledge of the process, conceptual foundation, and impact of community engaged research in the translational research enterprize through rigorous documentation, research, and evaluation.

 

The TSI Community Engagement initiative will continue to evolve, please visit the site regularly, and if you would like to receive information or get involved please contact the TSI Community Engagement Director, Thomas A. Arcury, PhD, Family and Community Medicine.

Community Engagement Core Working Group:

Thomas A. Arcury, PhD, Family and Community Medicine
Elizabeth Arnold, PhD, MSW, Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine
Alain Bertoni, MD, MPH, Public Health Science, Epidemiology and Prevention
Michele Gillespie, PhD, Office of Provost and Department of History, WFU Reynolda Campus
Joseph Grzywacz, PhD, Family and Community Medicine
Nancy Kautz, RN, Ashe County Health Council (landnrr@skybest.com)
Anita Pulley, RN, MSN, Translational Science Institute
Sara Quandt, PhD, Public Health Sciences, Epidemiology and Prevention
Scott Rhodes, PhD, MPH, Public Health Sciences, Social Sciences and Health Policy
Joseph Skelton, MD, Pediatrics
Quirina M. Vallejos, MPH, Family and Community Medicine
Mary Lynn Wigodsky, MSN, Communities Helping All Neighbors Gain Empowerment (CHANGE)