The Community Engagement and Dissemination Core (CEDC) will foster collaborations that promote community engagement in the design, dissemination, implementation of research supported by the HDR@UCR Center and provide community members and stakeholders with opportunities to shape the research agenda.
Our specific aims are to:
- Create a Community Engagement Studio that will serve as a hub for HDR@UCR community engaged proposal development, implementation, and dissemination activities.
- Serve as a boundary spanner between HDR@UCR researchers, and Coachella Valley and inland southern California community groups, health care delivery systems, and policy makers by facilitating stakeholder input into the HDR@UCR research agenda directed by our Community Advisory Board.
- Through dissemination efforts, build and strengthen a shared community focus on health disparities and equity.
Staff:
- Michelle Burroughs MPH, Lead of CEDC & Director of Community Engagement and Outreach for the Center for Healthy Communities (CHC)
- Sarah Garibay MSW, Program Manager CEDC
- Fara Aidul MPA, MHA, Community Health Program Manager CEDC
- Selina Hernandez MPH, Community Relations Specialist CEDC
- Sahar Foruzan, graduate student researcher CEDC, Anthropology, College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (CHASS)
- Joshua Liashenko PhD, Field Researcher CEDC
- Brenda Castruita, Translator, CEDC
- Moises Martinez, Translator, CEDC
Community Advisory Board:
- Paulette Brown, Voice Media Ventures
- Jonathan Buffong, San Bernardino County, Department of Behavioral Health
- Italia Garcia, Community Engagement Manager, Riverside County Transportation Commission
- John Epps, Regional Access Project Foundation
- Browyn Leebaw, University of California Riverside Political Science
- Maria Machuca, County of Riverside-Department of Public Social Services, Mecca Family & Farmworker’s Service Center
- Georgia Martinez, SAC Health System
- Jeff Taylor, dba HIV+Aging Research Project-Palm Springs
- Wendy Hetherington, Riverside University Health System
- Jacob Rostovsky, Queer Works
- Anthony Velasco, DAP Health
Click here to submit a request for a Community Engagement Studio
For questions about CEDC, please contact Sarah Garibay.