Proposals Due October 6 for Community-Campus Partnerships for Health Conference in Toronto: Mobilizing Partnerships for Social Change

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Dear migrant health research colleagues,

Call for Proposals Due October 6!

Community-Campus Partnerships for Health 10th Anniversary Conference

" Mobilizing Partnerships for Social Change "

April 11 - 14, 2007 in Toronto ON Canada

Details at: www.ccph.info

How do we combine the knowledge and wisdom in communities and in academic

institutions to solve the major health, social and economic challenges

facing our society? How do we ensure that community-driven social change

is central to service-learning and community-based participatory

research?

Community-Campus Partnerships for Health (CCPH) is convening our 10th

anniversary conference, April 11-14, 2007 in Toronto, to nurture a

growing network of community-campus partnerships that are striving to

achieve the systems and policy changes needed to address the root causes

of health, social and economic inequalities. The conference seeks to

build knowledge, skills and actions for achieving healthy and just

societies.

We invite you to share your knowledge, experience and lessons learned

with hundreds of colleagues who - like you - are passionate about the

power of partnerships to transform communities and academe.

The conference planning committee is looking for proposals that address

one or more of these sub-themes:

*Understanding and Addressing the Social Determinants of Health

*From Grassroots Movements to Policy Change

*Communities as Centers of Learning, Discovery and Engagement

*Developing the Science of Community-Based or Practice-Based Evidence

Proposals are sought for these session formats:

*Pre-conference intensive workshops

*Skill-building workshops

*Story sessions

*Challenges consultation sessions

*Film screening and discussion sessions

*Posters

*Thematic posters

Authors of selected proposals accepted for presentation will be invited to

prepare a paper for publication in one of these peer-reviewed journals:

Progress in Community Health Partnerships: Research, Education, and Action; The

Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement; or Context: The Journal

Recognizing Student Health Professionals Engaged in Their Communities. There is

no guarantee of publication, but we intend to work closely with authors and the

journal editors to ensure high quality submissions that are likely to be

favorably reviewed. In addition, Context will publish abstracts of all accepted

proposals authored by students! Learn more about these journals at these

websites:

http://pchp.press.jhu.edu

http://www.uga.edu/jheoe/

http://www.contextjournal.org

This CCPH conference in particular is notable for a number of reasons:

*It celebrates our 10th anniversary, allowing us to reflect on our

history and evolution and engage stakeholders in determining our future

directions.

*It is our first conference held in Canada, presenting unprecedented

opportunities to learn from Canadian experiences with community-campus

partnerships and the social determinants of health, and to explore

synergies across North America and beyond.

*It takes place in one of the most diverse cities in the world, enabling

us to explore critical issues of race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status,

wealth and culture.

*It represents an important product of our partnership with the Wellesley

Institute (www.wellesleyinstitute.com), the Toronto-based organization

that advances the social determinants of health through rigorous

community-based research, reciprocal capacity building, and the informing

of public policy.

We hope you can join us in Toronto next spring!

For more information, visit www.ccph.info

For information about being a conference exhibitor or cosponsor, visit

http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/conf-exhibiting.html or contact Annika

Sgambelluri at annikalr@...

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Community-Campus Partnerships for Health promotes health (broadly

defined) through partnerships between communities and higher educational

institutions. Become a member today at www.ccph.info

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