7 am - 12:00 pm: Registration
2nd Floor
7am - 8 am: Continental Breakfast
Grand Ballroom
8 am - 9:30 am: BREAKOUT SESSION V (concurrent)
5.A. Innovative Methods in Community-Based Collaborative Research
Connecticut Salon A
Speakers will present projects that use art, poetry, dance, digital storytelling and information technologies as research tools.
Chair: Elanah Uretsky, Columbia University, Department of Socio-Medical Sciences, New York, NY
Aline Gubrium, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
Pato Hebert, AIDS Project Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
Elizabeth Andrejasich,
Tinnah Card, Ann P. Bishop, Bertram C. Bruce, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL
5.B. The Use of Art as a Research Tool
Connecticut Salon B
Panels will discuss the interplay of art and research in forming relationships, reflecting on the role of researcher, creating new knowledge and fostering change.
Chair: Marlene Berg, ICR, Hartford, CT
Sally Campbell Galman, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
Stephen Pavey, Western Kentucky University, Center for Community Partnerships, Bowling Green, KY
Lisa M. Vaughn, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center/ University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH
5.C. Effective Collaborative Partnerships: The University of Connecticut Urban Service Track and the Connecticut Primary Care Association
Connecticut Salon C
This presentation will focus on the collaborative partnership between the University of Connecticut’s Urban Service Track and the Connecticut Primary Care Association. The Urban Service Track is a new initiative between the University’s Schools of Dental Medicine, Pharmacy and Nursing that brings students interested in providing care for urban underserved populations together for enhanced learning opportunities and exposure.
Chair: Petra Clark-Dufner, University of Connecticut, Urban Service Track, Farmington, CT
Devra Dang, University of Connecticut School of Pharmacy, Storrs, CT
Jack Rustico, Connecticut Primary Care Association, Hartford, CT
5.D. Challenges in HIV Prevention, Services and Research
Ethan Allen
This panel will discuss challenges in forging successful partnerships, conducting ethical research to prevent HIV, and providing services to those infected/affected by HIV.
Chair: Jennifer Salonia, ICR, Hartford, CT
Kristin Kelly, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
Adrian Guta and Sarah Flicker, The Ontario HIV Network and York University, Ontario, Canada
Ellen Smith and Lisa Werkmeister-Rozas, University of Connecticut School of Social Work, Hartford, CT
5.E. Story Circle
Silas Deane
In this workshop, participants will take part in the Story Circle Process, an ongoing experiment in the application of the principles of democratic group process to storytelling in a social context.
Facilitator: John O’Neal, Junebug Productions, New Orleans, LA
5.F. Research for Social Justice Organizing and Advocacy: The Example of New York City
Nathan Hale North
This panel will highlight how research is being used as a strategic and effective tool to support social justice organizing and advocacy in New York City on the local and city-wide levels. Issues to be discussed will include collaborations between community-based organizations, research and policy institutions and universities, leadership development and capacity building of low income stakeholders as part of the research process and related action strategies, and dissemination of community-led research to support social justice campaigns and positive social change.
Chair: Laine Romero-Alston, Urban Justice Center, New York, NY
Shoshi Doza and Rishi Singh Desis Rising Up and Moving (DRUM), Jackson Heights, NY
Rehka Eanni, Restaurant Opportunities Center of New York (ROCNY), New York, NY
Samantha Imperatrice, Families United for Racial and Economic Equality (FUREE), Brooklyn, NY
5.G. Bridging the Gap Between Grassroots Organizing and Research: The Connecticut Experience
Nathan Hale South
In this roundtable discussion, participants will gain knowledge of practical tools and strategies for grassroots advocacy and legislative reform to be used in their sector and setting.
Chair: Robert Rooks, Soros Fellow/Justice Strategies, Dallas, TX
Gabriel Sayegh, Drug Policy Alliance, New York, NY
Lorenzo Jones, A Better Way Foundation, Hartford, CT
Judy Green, Justice Strategies, Brooklyn, NY
Tim Black, University of Hartford, Hartford, CT
5.H. International Collaborations in HIV Prevention research: Issues, Challenges, and Lessons Learned
Mark Twain
This session will address challenges in conducting international collaborative research and strategies for overcoming these. The initial discussion will present case studies of international HIV prevention research followed by an open discussion with session attendees who are encouraged to share their own experiences.
Chair: Michelle Corbett, ICR, Hartford, CT
JiangHong Li, ICR, Hartford, CT
Margaret R. Weeks, ICR, Hartford, CT
SK Singh, International Institute of Population Science, Mumbai, India
5.I. Spirituality, Research and Community: Partnerships for Health Equity and Social Justice
PT Barnum
This session provides a forum to discuss opportunities and challenges in developing and sustaining partnerships that engage researchers, faith communities, service providers, local organizations and residents in dialogue and action to develop and implement programs that effectively address and reduce inequities and improve quality of life.
Chair: Kim Radda, ICR, Hartford, CT
Maurice Williams, Yale-Griffin Prevention Center, New Haven, CT
Cece Jones, CT AIDS Resource Coalition, Hartford, CT
Robert L. Miller, State University of New York, Albany, NY
5.J. The Artist As Researcher
Grand Ballroom West
Artists and researchers share a natural inclination toward inquiry and investigation. We seek to understand the world around us, the systems both organic and manufactured and to effect change. This panel will give an inside view of how five gifted artists accomplish these goals through visual media.
Chair: Colleen Coleman, ICR, Hartford, CT
Sharokin Betgevargiz
June Bisantz
Christine Breslin
Joy Wulke
9:45 am - 10:45 am: Plenary keynote: "The Politics of Translating Science for Diverse Cultures"
Grand Ballroom
Keynote Speaker: Charles Martinez, Oregon Social Learning Center and OSLC Latino Research Team
10:45 am - 11:00 am: Break
11:00 am - 12:30 pm: BREAKOUT SESSION VI (concurrent)
6.A. Conceptualizing, Developing and Evaluating Structural Interventions to Prevent Health Disparities
Connecticut Salon A
This panel of researchers and activists will discuss challenges in conceptualizing and measuring “root causes” of health disparities and in developing and evaluating structural interventions.
Chair: Julia Dickson-Gomez, ICR, Hartford, CT
Joanne Mantell, HIV Center for Clinical & Behavioral Studies, Columbia University, New York, NY
Merrill Singer, Hispanic Health Council, Hartford, CT
Kim Blankenship, CIRA, Yale University, New Haven CT
Ann Livingston, Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users (VANDU), Vancouver, BC, Canada
6.B. Violence Prevention and Youth
Connecticut Salon B
This session will present information from a survey on youth violence. Issues of teen violence, including street violence and intimate partner violence, will be explored through youth lenses and the arts.
Chair: Damion Sincere Morgan, ICR, Hartford, CT
Chiedza Rodriguez, ICR, Hartford, CT and Melissa Hamilton, Capital Prep., Hartford, CT; Matt Killpatrick, Mosaic, Killingly High School, Killingly, CT; Jennifer Rodriguez, ICR, Hartford, CT; Jennifer Rosa, TEAR, Guilford High School, Guilford, CT; Ashley Oaks, Windham High School, Windham, CT
Felicia T. Whittington and Hussain Al-Fadhli, Tougaloo College, West Jackson, MS
Johonna R. McCants, Institute for Community Peace, Washington, DC; University of Maryland, College Park, MD
Ras Mo Moses, Oakland-based artist/activist, Oakland, CA
6.C. National and Foundation Funded Community Collaborative Research in Health: Peer Review Opportunities and Challenges
Connecticut Salon C
This panel will present views from CBCR-supportive funding arms within public and private health research funders on expectations and challenges in the peer review process for community collaborative research and community level intervention proposals.
Chair: Margaret R. Weeks, ICR, Hartford, CT
William Elwood, Scientific National Institutes of Health (NIH) Center for Review, Rockville, MD
Lynne Garner, The Patrick and Catherine Weldon Donaghue Medical Research Foundation, West Hartford, CT
6.D. Service Learning, CBPR, and Social Justice
Ethan Allen
This panel will discuss ways of incorporating service learning in the classroom and implications for future student participation in community organizing and creating change.
Chair: Karen Brown and Christina Robinson-Dillon, Capital Community College, Hartford, CT
Cristina Wheeler Castillo and Alison Draper, Trinity College Science Center, Hartford, CT
Meltam Turkoz, Isak University, Istanbul, Turkey
6.E. Development in Developing Countries? Community-Based Research to Evaluate and Critique Development Programs
Silas Deane
Panelists will present comparative case studies to highlight the strengths and pitfalls of community focused development programs.
Chair: Enku Kebede-Francis, Tufts University Medical School, Boston, MA
Alec Thornton, Poverty, Inequality and Development (PID) Reserach Center, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
Clinton Nichols III, Center for Cultural Understanding and Change, The Field School, Chicago, IL
6.F. Cultural and Structural Dimensions of HIV Risk in India
Nathan Hale North
In this session we will report on three studies in which migration, informal commercial sex work, male concerns about sexuality and sexual dysfunction and a variety of other factors are shown to contribute to HIV risk behavior in vulnerable men and rural women in urban and rural India.
Chair: S.K. Singh, International Institute of Population Sciences, Mumbai, India
Jean J. Schensul, ICR, Hartford, CT, SK Singh and Kamla Gupta, International Institute of Pouplarion Sciences, Mumbai, India
Marlene Berg, Stephen Schensul, ICR, Hartford, CT, University of Connecticut Medical Center, Farmington, CT
Sarah Diamond, ICR, Hartford, CT
Ellen Cromley, and Jean J. Schensul, ICR, Hartford, CT
6.G. HIV and Older Adults: Improving Knowledge, Challenging Assumptions and Developing Successful Partnerships for Research, Advocacy and Activism
Nathan Hale South
Within the framework of community-based partnerships, this panel of researchers and activists will discuss gaps in knowledge regarding HIV/AIDS risk among older adults, stigma and stereotypes that impact diagnosis and treatment, and challenges and successes in the development and implementation of HIV prevention interventions for this population.
Chair: LaFleur Small, Marlese Durr, Diana Alexander Jones Wright State University Department of Sociology and Anthropology and Combined Health district of Montgomery County, Dayton, OH
Evelyn Baez, Kim Radda, Jean J. Schensul, ICR, Hartford, CT, Judith Levy, University of Illinois, School of Public Health, Chicago, IL, Carmen Reyes, North Central Area Agency on Aging, Hartford, CT
Robert L. Miller, School of Social Welfare, State University of New York, Albany, NY
Kim Radda, ICR, Hartford, CT
6.H. Results of the Hepatitis Vaccine Study
Mark Twain
This session will discuss ways of improving the delivery of community based hepatitis prevention in injection drug users.
Chair: Yiqing Hu, David Paltiel, Greg Scott, Lauretta E. Grau, Robert Heimer, Karen H. Seal, Patricia A. Marshall, Merrill Singer, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT
Robert Heimer, Lauretta E. Grau, Patricia Marshall, Merrill Singer, Yiging Hu, Greg Scott, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT
Lauretta E. Grau, Helen He, Merrill Singer, Robert Heimer, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT
6.I. The Project Choice Campaign and the Sheff Movement Coalition
PT Barnum
This panel will present a project that the Sheff Movement Coalition is undertaking to organize urban and suburban parents in support of integrated educational choices.
Chair: Philip Tegeler, Poverty and Race Research Action Council, Washington, DC
Erica Frankenberg, Harvard University, The Civil Rights Project, Cambridge, MA
6.J. Gallery Talk
The Conrad L. Mallett Galleries, Capital Community College
The arts have the power to touch us through discovery, investigation, insight nad elicitation. Come hear what motivated the artists and arts and research project coordinators of the Crossroads II exhibition: Explorations of Social and Environmental Justice Issues.
Facilitator: Colleen Coleman, ICR, Hartford, CT
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