Opportunity to Disseminate Your Discoveries to Impact Community Health
If you are a faculty member from Emory, Morehouse School of Medicine, or Georgia Tech who has a proven research discovery which could positively impact the community's health, the Community Engagement & Research Program (CERP) of the ACTSI has an opportunity for you. CERP aims to match faculty investigators with its established network of community-based organizations (CBOs) to disseminate research findings - the ultimate step in the translation continuum. CERP will provide funding to the CBOs through a mini-grants program to support these dissemination activities.
If you are interested, please provide an abstract of 250 words or less describing your research and key findings, and potential target communities, to Dr. Winnie Thompson (404-778-1349) or Dr. Folake Ojutalayo (404-752-1887) no later than Monday, May 31. The CERP Steering Board and the Clinical Interaction Network (CIN) of the ACTSI will review abstracts received and help determine which are most appropriate for inclusion in the mini-grants RFA.
Following selection of the CBOs for funding, you will be matched with a CBO(s) to develop appropriate community-level dissemination plans and activities. Grants will be awarded to CBOs in August 2010, for dissemination activities to occur between September 2010 and May 2011.
If you have questions about this process, please contact Johanna Hinman (404-712-8533). Read more...