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CEPP Morning Lecture and Discussion

“Community Engagement in Research: From Ethics to Operations to Engaging at Scale”

Presenter:
Jim Lavery, PhD
Presenter Affiliation:
Centre for Research on Inner City Health and Centre for Global Health Research; Keenan Research Centre,Knowledge St. Michael’s Hospital; Institute of Medical Science, and Joint Centre for Bioethics, University of Toronto
Location:
509 O'Brian Hall, Law School Conference Room
Campus:
North Campus
Date:
3/19/13
Time:
8:45 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
Cost:
Free. All welcome. RSVP to CEPPrsvp@buffalo.edu
Sponsor:
UB Center for Clinical Ethics and Humanities in Health Care, UB Department of Medicine and the Buffalo Clinical Translational Research Center (CTRC), the UB Department of Family Medicine, and the UB Civic Engagement and Public Policy Research Initative.
Contact:
Laura Mangan at 645-5376 (lmangan@buffalo.edu)
Community engagement in global health research, and in other forms of public health research, is generally focused at individual trial sites, or in small geographic areas. But to have real impact on global health problems, interventions will increasingly require effective engagement with larger populations.

This lecture addresses three main questions: (1) why should we engage communities in research?; (2) how should we engage communities in research?; and (3) how can we scale-up community engagement for research and interventions with larger populations?

Dr. Lavery is interested in community engagement in research and public health intervention, research ethics, and dialogue and public engagement related to health and controversial social issues. He is currently the principal consultant on community and public engagement for the Ethical, Social and Cultural Program of the Bill & Melinda Gales Foundation’s Global Health Program having previously (2005-11) been Co-PI of the Foundation’s Grand Challenges in Global Health Initiative.

Lavery recently spent three years at the National Institutes of Health where he worked on ethical and regulatory issues in international research and published, with NIH colleagues, a book of case studies, Ethical Issues in International Biomedical Research (2007 Oxford Univ. Press).

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