The Community Engaged Research 4 Health (CERCH) 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 CERCH is to promote excellence in community engaged and participatory research to ultimately improve community and population health. CERCH 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, CERCH 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. CERCH members meet monthly and have an active Google group communication structure for meeting member needs between meetings.
Members
Name | Role |
Eunice Areba | Faculty |
Adrianna Bell | Faculty |
Rozina Bhimani | Faculty |
Camille Brown | Faculty |
Carrie Neerland | Faculty |
Amanda Davis | PhD Student |
Douglas Kennedy | Faculty |
Jayne Fulkerson | Faculty |
Nasra Giama | Faculty |
Niloufar Hadidi | Faculty |
Linda Hanson | Faculty |
Mary Hearst | Faculty |
Sarah Hoffman | Faculty |
Melissa Horning | Faculty |
Laura Kirk | Faculty |
Kris Gorman | Faculty |
Jiwoo Lee | Faculty |
Lucy Mkandawire-Valhmu | Faculty |
Leso Munala | Faculty |
Christie Martin | Faculty |
Lauren Martin | Faculty |
Barbara McMorris | Faculty |
Robin Austin | Faculty |
Siobhan McMahon | Faculty |
Don Thorpe III | Research Clinician/Post-Doc |
Erika Timko-Olson | Faculty |
Diane Treat-Jacobson | Faculty |
Rebecca Watry | Post-doc |
Mary Whipple | Faculty |
This list only represents community engaged researchers who have joined this group