PARTNERSHIPSCommunity Engagement
We partner with community groups, individual community members, and others to identify research priorities.
Community
The mission of the Community Engagement and Research Program (CERP) is to foster strong partnerships between the community and The Lundquist Institute researchers, Harbor-UCLA clinicians, and staff. Together, we aim to support and advance research that makes a positive impact on the lives of people in Los Angeles County.
What we do:
- Connect: Build strong community-academic partnerships to enhance public health and promote health equity.
- Create: Cultivate respectful, inclusive, and mutually beneficial research collaborations.
- Advance: Provide opportunities for training and development.
- Engage: Promote community outreach, host symposia, and support capacity-building efforts.
- Act: Drive impactful outcomes that lead to meaningful social change.
Publications
1. Kalantar-Zadeh, K., Bross, R., Wang, C., & Moore, L. W. (2023). Community Nutrition and Lifestyle Medicine for Kidney Health: Awareness of the Social Determinants of Health in Renal Nutrition. Journal of renal nutrition: the official journal of the Council on Renal Nutrition of the National Kidney Foundation, 33(4), 505–507.
2. Castellon-Lopez, Y., Landovitz, R., Ntekume, E., Porter, C., Bross, R., Hilder, R., Lucas-Wright, A., Daar, E. S., Chavez, P., Blades, C., Carson, S., Morris, D., Vassar, S., Casillas, A., & Brown, A. (2022). A community-partnered approach for diversity in COVID-19 vaccine clinical trials. Journal of clinical and translational science, 7(1), e23.
3. Bross, R., Genter, P., Lu, Y., Serpas, L., Campa, D., & Ipp, E. (2022). Barriers to Healthy Eating and Diabetes Diet Education: Divergent Perspectives of Patients and Their Providers. Health education & behavior: the official publication of the Society for Public Health Education, 49(4), 658–666.
4. Fein, E.H., Williams, P., Chung, P.J., Martinez, A., Stewart, C., Valeri, A., ... Chung, B. (2021). Engaging Community and Academic Partners to Explore Adolescent Emotional Well-Being. Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved 32(1), 506-522.
5. Jones, L., Wells, K., Lin, H. J., Wang, C., Alo, A. K., Williams, P., Jones, F., Dickson, P. I., Han, S., Pardo, D., Norris, K., Jones, A., Wright, A., Young, K., & Rotter, J. I. (2018). Community Partnership in Precision Medicine: Themes from a Community Engagement Conference. Ethnicity & disease, 28(Suppl 2), 503–510.
6. Yee, J. K., Lucas-Wright, A., Liu, P. Y., Chung, B., Bross, R., Malkhassian, S., Norris, K. C., Wang, C., & Jones, L. (2018). Initiating Dialogue in Community-Partnered Participatory Research to Address Obesity in South Los Angeles. Journal of health care for the poor and underserved, 29(2), 601–614.
7. Brown, A. F., Morris, D. M., Kahn, K. L., Sankaré, I. C., King, K. M., Vargas, R., Lucas-Wright, A., Jones, L. F., Flowers, A., Jones, F. U., Bross, R., Banner, D., Del Pino, H. E., Pitts, O. L., Zhang, L., Porter, C., Madrigal, S. K., Vassar, S. D., Vangala, S., Liang, L. J., … Norris, K. C. (2016). The Healthy Community Neighborhood Initiative: Rationale and Design. Ethnicity & disease, 26(1), 123–132.
8. Sankaré, I. C., Bross, R., Brown, A. F., Del Pino, H. E., Jones, L. F., Morris, D. M., Porter, C., Lucas-Wright, A., Vargas, R., Forge, N., Norris, K. C., & Kahn, K. L. (2015).Strategies to Build Trust and Recruit African American and Latino Community Residents for Health Research: A Cohort Study. Clinical and translational science, 8(5), 412–420.
The Robert F. Kennedy Institute of Community & Family Medicine
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Hawaii's Daughters Guild of California
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Charles Drew University
Partnering with CDU faculty, their team actively engages with local community through various clinical services, pipeline programs, and organizational partnerships.
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