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2024-2025
October 2024 Grand Round - Angela Cooke-Jackson
“Acknowledgement, Respect, and Preparation: Community Engagement and Participatory Design Research among Vulnerable Populations”
Dr. Cooke-Jackson specializes in Health Communication and Behavioral Science, employing community-based participatory research and media literacy to assist communities in developing innovative and practical approaches for sustainable change. This talk examines how community engagement and participatory design research (CBDR) can support vulnerable communities in practice and policy, build their capacity, and collaborate with them to address health challenges.
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April 2024 Grand Round - Alex Kral
"Overdose Prevention Sites: Global and Domestic Research, Policy and Implementation"
Alex H. Kral, a Distinguished Fellow at the nonprofit RTI International, is an epidemiologist with expertise in community-based research with urban poor populations and drug policy. This presentation provides an overview of harm reduction principles, review of global evaluations of overdose prevention sites, and a deep dive into community-based research methods and results from US-based evaluations of overdose prevention sites.
View the RecordingOctober 2023 Grand Round - Satveer Kaur-Gill
"Racially Discordant Provider-Patient Communication during End-of-Life Conversations"
Satveer’s research examines how populations with unequal access to health, social, and digital resources experience health disparities, often adopting a critical interpretive lens such as the culture-centered approach (CCA). Her primary research goal is to build health equity interventions that anchor community and patient voices. This presentation covered how they examined provider communication practices by triangulating methods (semi-structured interviews with patients & providers, observational notes, and conversation analysis) to identify communication inequities occurring in racially discordant provider-patient encounters.