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Healthy City Collaborative
The Healthy City Collaborative (HCC) is a multidisciplinary
workgroup that engages university researchers, external partners and
community leadership in conversations and research to benefit the Health
of Chicago. The HCC research agenda is derived from the broadest definition
of health, which acknowledges interrelationships among individual, social,
environmental, political and economic contributors to the health of
the City. In coordination with its partners, the HCC develops and promotes
a responsive, mutually accepted research agenda.
Dr. Cynthia Boyd
Cynthia "Cee" Barnes-Boyd is the Coordinator of the Healthy
City Collaborative. Dr. Boyd is Director of UIC Great Cities Neighborhoods
Initiative, Assistant Dean for Community Health in the UIC College of
Nursing, and Robert Wood Johnson Executive Nurse Fellow.
Click here
for Cynthia's bio.
p. 312-996-7963
cboyd@uic.edu
About Us
Healthy City
Fact Sheet
This document gives a brief overview of the Healthy City Collaborative
Presentation on HCC Goals
This presentation from January 2007 outlines the goals, status, and future work of the Healthy Cit Collaborative.
Healthy City Collaborative Partnership Principles
This document represents work by Healthy City Collaborative members to create partnership principles
for community university partnerships.
Upcoming Healthy City Events
Check back soon for our next event!
Recent Past Events
April 18, 2008
Protecting Participants in Community Research: A Community-University Dialogue
This all-day event was the second in a series of workshops for community members, staff of community-based organizations,
community service providers, people who are new to or interested in community partnership research, or those who have
experience but which to refresh their knowledge and share their experience.
The purpose of this conference was:
- To foster respectful and equal collaborative relationships between community partners and UIC researchers
- To dialogue with community partners about the information they need to more knowledgeably participate in research when approached by university researchers
- To increase organizations’ capacity to conduct their own research or to lead or co-lead research efforts
- To increase the capacity of community organizations to inform and protect the community members they represent
This event was sponsored by the University of Illinois at Chicago Great Cities Institute, Healthy City Collaborative,
Institute for Health Research and Policy, and Office for the Protection of Research Subjects.
FEATURED THIS MONTH:
February 29, 2008
Developing Authentic Community/University Research Partnerships:
A Primer for Community Based Participatory Research
This conversation was intended for faculty, students, and staff who desire to
increase their skill and confidence in developing and sustaining community
engaged research partnerships. Workshop content included partnership and
community based research principles adopted by the UIC Healthy City Collaborative.
Click on the links below for presentations from this event:
Welcome
and Program Overview
Bill Baldyga, Associate Director, Institute for Health Research and Policy, UIC
Engaging
Community in Authentic Partnerships for Research
Cynthia (Cee) Barnes-Boyd, Director, Healthy City Collaborative and UIC Neighborhoods Initiative
Getting on the
Same Page: CBPR Principles and Practice
Jen Kauper-Brown, Co-Director, Community Based Participatory Research Program, Northwestern University
Sustained Researcher Involvement
in a Community Setting
Michele Kelley, Great Cities Institute Faculty Scholar, Associate Professor, School of Public Health, UIC
This event was sponsored by UIC Great Cities Institute Healthy City Collaborative and Institute for Health
Research and Policy.
January 23, 2008
UIC SPH Race and Health Disparities Forum:
Shaking the Foundations of an "Uneasy" Relationship
This was an interdisciplinary forum addressing the conceptual issues related to health disparities and
racial differentials, sponsored by the UIC School of Public Health.
November 2, 2007
Developing Community Capacity for Research Participation brought
community service providers together to engage in a dialogue to increase the capacity of community
organizations and representatives to knowledgeably participate in research.
View the agenda from the all-day conference. Click on links below for presentations from this event:
Welcome and The Language of
Research: Understanding Research Terminology and Methods, Cee Barnes-Boyd and Malik Nevels
The Language of Research, Part II: Understanding
Research Terminology and Use
Preparing for Research
Partnerships: Westside Health Authority, Janine Lewis and Patricia Wright
The Research Partnership: How Will You Know If
It's Working for You and Your Community?, Michele Kelley
Our Community Participatory Research Project: A Model
for Reciprocal Empowerment, Dinah Ramirez
May 9, 2007
Community Partners Summit
Download notes and recommendations
from this all day summit with community partners on how to
make the relationship between the university
and community members more productive and responsive to the community's needs and desires.
In addition, a one page summary
was drafted to show the themes that overlapped between this local community summit and the national
Community-Campus
Partnerships for Health Community Partners Summit.
April 12, 2007
A Puerto Rican Community Responds to
the HIV/AIDS Crisis: The Role of Social and Cultural Capital with Michele
Kelly and Alejandro Luis Molina. Michele Kelly is Associate Professor
of Community Health Sciences at the UIC School of Public Health. Alejandro
Luis Molina is on the Board of Directors of the Puerto Rican Cultural
Center and is an instructor at Dr. Pedro Albizu Campos Puerto Rican
High School.
February 15, 2007
The Lawndale Health Promotion Project:
Engaging Communities in Creating a Healthier Community in Chicago’s
North and South Lawndale with Cynthia Barnes-Boyd, Berenice Tow, and
Michael Quinn. Cynthia Barnes-Boyd is Director of UIC Neighborhoods
Neighborhoods Initiative and Assistant Dean of Community Health Initiatives
at UIC College of Nursing. Berenice Tow is the Reach 2010 Project Director
at the City of Chicago Department of Public Health. Michael Quinn is
Education Specialist in Research in the Department of Medicine, Diabetes
Research and Training Center at the University of Chicago.
HCC Resources
References & Tools
Funding Opportunities
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