Virginia Swain is the host of Imagine Worcester and the World, your source for local and global interviews with peacemakers around the world. Ira Ockene, M.D and Suzanne Cashman, ScD from the Community Engagement & Research Section, University of Massachusetts Medical School. Ira is Director of the CCTS Community Engagement & Research Section and is a Cardiologist in the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine University of Massachusetts Medical School. Suzanne is with the University of Massachusetts Medical Center, Department of Family Medicine and Community Health as well as the Co-Director of the CCTS Community Engagement & Research Section/ The goal of the UMass CCTS Community Engagement & Research Core, is to help university researchers and community leaders form equal partnerships for health research. This approach is called community engaged research. Other names for this type of approach include Community Based Participatory Research (CBPR), Community Collaborative Research, Community Partnered Research, and Participatory Action Research. For more, go to http://www.umassmed.edu/CCTS/Community/index.aspx
Posted December 13th 2011 5:52pm.