Advancing Nursing & Community Health through Engaged Research (ANCHER)

The Advancing Nursing & Community Health through Engaged Research (ANCHER; pronounced like "anchor") group is a team of scholars in the School of Nursing that includes anthropologists, sociologists, psychologists, epidemiologists, and nurses. These scholars engage grassroots, community-based agencies and partners in collaborative research that offers mutual benefit and connection to both the community and the university through the co-creation of knowledge produced through research.

The primary goal of ANCHER is to promote excellence in community engaged and participatory research to ultimately improve community and population health. ANCHER supports best practice for community engaged research to improve equity, diversity, inclusion and justice within our research, the School, and the broader community.

Comprised of faculty and students who are conducting or planning to conduct engaged research in the community, ANCHER provides members opportunities to build and maintain community collaborations and networks, workshop challenges toward practical solutions using principles and best-practices of community-engaged research, provide support for funding applications and ongoing projects, and improve School processes to better support community-engaged research. ANCHER members meet monthly and have an active Google group communication structure for meeting member needs between meetings.