Transforming Partnerships: Community Engagement for Health Summit

Wednesday, October 10, 2012
8:00am – 2:00pm 
Minnesota Landscape Arboretum 

There is no cost to attend. Please register by Monday, October 1, 2012.

Register Now

Purpose of the Summit
The Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) of the University of Minnesota’s mission is to transform the way in which clinical and translational research is conducted to better engage communities throughout the process. To this end, the Office of Community Engagement for Health (OCEH) of the CTSI would like to invite you to participate in the second annual community engagement summit to further articulate how the community and University can work together to improve community health through engaged research.

The overall goal of this Summit is to gather community advisory members, university engagement faculty and staff, and others interested in furthering this goal to celebrate our growing partnerships and discuss recommendations for supporting engagement between the Community and University to improve health. This meeting will include some plenary-style presentation and small group working sessions.

At the end of this meeting attendees should:

•  Develop a shared understanding of the community engagement mission of the CTSI-OCEH,
• Share progress since the launch and last year’s summit and,
• Identify ways to individually and collectively achieve the community engagement mission

Preliminary Agenda (click here for a PDF copy of the agenda)

8:00 – 9:00am Registration
Continental breakfast served

9:00 – 9:15am Welcome
Andy Nelson, Associate Director of Populations, CTSI

9:15 – 10:15am Keynote Speaker
Sergio Aguilar – Gaxiola, MD, PhD, University of California – Davis

10:30 – 12:00pm Collective Story Harvest: Community-engaged Research
Facilitated by Dawn Ellison

12:00 – 1:00pm Lunch served

1:00 – 1:45pm Closing Session

1:45 – 2:00pm Wrap up and adjourn

For more information, contact Andrea Leinberger-Jabari at (612)624-4247 or lein0072@umn.edu.

To see a summary of last year's summit, click here.