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Progress and Value of CERC to the Virgin Islands 2007-2012. October 18, 2012 Gloria B. Callwood, PhD, RN FAAN, Edith Ramsay-Johnson, EdD , RN, Desiree Bertrand, MSN, RN, La Verne Ragster, PhD, Doris W Campbell, PhD, RN, FAAN. Center Structure. Center funded by NIH NIMHD
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Progress and Value of CERC to the Virgin Islands 2007-2012 October 18, 2012 Gloria B. Callwood, PhD, RN FAAN, Edith Ramsay-Johnson, EdD, RN, Desiree Bertrand, MSN, RN, La Verne Ragster, PhD, Doris W Campbell, PhD, RN, FAAN
Center Structure • Center funded by NIH NIMHD • 5 year funding from NIMHD after 3 year research capacity building grant • Organized into four Cores • Administrative • Research • Research Education Training and Mentoring • Community outreach • Functions with a Collaborative Model with researchers from research intensive universities
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Outcomes • Five years of this collaborative relationship has resulted in: • Partnerships and cooperative relationships with community agencies/organizations • Territorial Hospitals • Department of Health • Federally Qualified Health Centers • Hope, Inc • Family Resource Center
Outcomes: Dissemination • Podium and poster presentations at professional conferences • local, • National, • International • Publications • Samples of poster presentations and published articles are on display
Contributions to the University and Community • Mentoring of students and community research scholars • Outreach to the community to share health related information, materials and forums on research outcomes • Employment opportunities for students and community health professionals
Contributions to science and knowledge • Annual Health Disparities Institutes • Digitalization of the Heckler Report outcome of 2010 Institute • Development and implementation of Health Disparities course
Research Core • Oversight of Studies related to: • diabetes (3), women’s health (1), • breast cancer (1), men’s health (1), • Human Papilloma Virus (1), mental health (1), • Human Immune Virus (1), Intimate partner abuse (1), • women and girl abuse after a disaster (1), Homicide (1), multiple myeloma (1), • Brief Risk Factor Surveillance Survey analysis (BRFSS) (1) • Climate change and public health (1)
Research Core • Funded Pilot studies • Issued calls for proposals • Reviewed proposals for substance • Facilitated Institutional Review Board and NIMHD assessment of safeguards to protect human subjects • Three pilots currently in process related to: • Diabetes • Mental Health • Obesity