CCPH - Community-Campus Partnerships for Health

As part of our continuing relationships with the North Carolina Community Engagement Alliance (NC CEAL) Research Leadership Academy (RLA) Scholars, CCPH visited three Scholars from the 2025 RLA cohort early January 2026.

Read more about our team connecting with Sandhills Cooperation Association, ConnectingCommunity, and EBC-ATOM, Inc. 👇🏽
https://ccphealth.org/research-leadership-academy-site-visits/

It is with great sadness we share the passing of two dear and long-time partners, Elmer Freeman of Boston, Massachusetts and Barbara Israel of Ann Arbor, Michigan.

After learning more about their legacies on our website, we invite you to submit a comment, share memories, and offer condolences and thoughts on the impact they have had on the community. ⬇️
https://ccphealth.org/remembering-community-based-participatory-research-icons/

Seattle/King County Clinic will be providing FREE dental, vision, medical, and social services to anyone who struggles to afford or access healthcare at Seattle Center.
Details:
🗓️ Date: April 23-26, 2026
✅ No ID or proof of income, insurance, or immigration status is required to receive services.
✅ Interpreters will be available, and you do not need to b a resident of Seattle or King County to receive services.
✅ A limited number of admission tickets will be handed out each day starting at 5:30am at Fisher Pavilion on a first-come, first-served basis.

For more information, please visit: seattlecenter.org/patients.

The Health Equity Community Collaborative delivered three communication trainings to support community-based and public health organizations in addressing health issues in their local areas - especially for those with limited communication support and resources.

Watch the series ⬇️
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbYY6fwc6fI&list=PLwvjCfJancv-c7m-FFyifvrFsAp7WlSLo&index=4

Communications Training Series for Community Leaders: Part One Over the next three months, the Health Equity Community Collaborative will deliver three communication trainings to support community-based and public health...

Achieving health equity requires more than commitment—it demands endurance: the ability to sustain long-term action despite systemic challenges, limited resources, and emotional fatigue.

Read this blog post on Endurance in health equity: Sustaining the work through care, adaptability, and investment by Partners for Advancing Health Equity. ⬇️

https://www.partners4healthequity.org/resource-library/endurance-health-equity-sustaining-work-through-care-adaptability-and-investment?mc_cid=6d28b5a83e&mc_eid=8c946104f7

A curated list of resources designed to drive action for policymakers, community members, health practitioners, researchers, advocates, philanthropists, and more. Whether you’re ready to take the next step or implement new strategies for maintaining endurance in health equity work, these tools are here to support your journey.

Dive in and discover how these resources can help you achieve your goals. ⬇️
https://www.partners4healthequity.org/resource-library/p4he-resource-spotlight-endurance-health-equity-work?mc_cid=6d28b5a83e&mc_eid=8c946104f7

Across North Carolina, leaders in community-engaged research are advancing innovative approaches to improve health outcomes by centering community voices and using promising practices.

Our Executive Director, Al Richmond, MSW and principal investigator of the North Carolina CEAL Regional Team (NC CEAL), and M. Kathryn Menard, M.D., M.P.H., principal investigator of the AC3HIEVE study within the Maternal Health Community Implementation Program (MH‑CIP) and distinguished professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the UNC School of Medicine, bring complementary perspectives to this work.

Together, they demonstrate how community-guided priorities, strong partnerships, and rigorous yet practical research design can drive meaningful change, from addressing chronic disease concerns to improving maternal health and hypertension-related outcomes before, during, and after pregnancy

Read their Q&A ⬇️
https://nihceal.org/news/north-carolina-ceal-teams-health-outcomes

Applications are now open for the 2026-2027 Health Equity Fellowship for Trainees (HEFT), a program designed to equip early-career researchers with the tools, mentorship, and scholarly grounding to advance health equity research.

Learn more and apply ⬇️
https://projecthope.csod.com/ux/ats/careersite/2/home/requisition/1787?c=projecthope&sq=req1787&utm_campaign=34100817-Announcements%202026&utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_aoxnZV02dzj3vvNNRpkdioxABrJPW-Mcbtp4yKLqzQy14xauVvTTHVqbD1pK-3f0oO6VUXMkH0TFuj2BQ6Z3hyj5pLw&_hsmi=399881876&utm_content=399881876&utm_source=hs_email&mc_cid=6d28b5a83e&mc_eid=8c946104f7

Health Equity Fellowship for Trainees (HEFT) Health Affairs Publishing produces rigorous, nonpartisan research and analysis to improve health and health care. We distill complex health policy res...

Check out Charisse's latest Partnership Work post on Substack, The Community Knows What the Community Needs.

"When it comes to building partnerships, I’ve organized meetings and sessions to support partnerships between community members and university researchers. The structure is flexible, but the overall goal is to curate a space that challenges power dynamics and allows productive discussion that prioritizes community expertise and lived experiences. In many of these meetings, there can sometimes be a tone of university researchers knowing more than community members about their own communities when in reality, the community knows what the community needs."

Continue reading ⬇️
https://partnershipwork.substack.com/p/the-community-knows-what-the-community?mc_cid=6d28b5a83e&mc_eid=8c946104f7

Join Paul Kuttner as he sits down with Judy Pryor-Ramirez to trace her journey as a community-based, participatory action researcher. From playful beach-themed data labs to virtual story circles, Judy shares a vision of research that shifts power, builds community, and sparks action.

Give it a listen 🎧
https://partnershipwork.org/2025/12/01/remixing-research-with-judy-pryor-ramirez/?mc_cid=6d28b5a83e&mc_eid=8c946104f7

North Carolina Community Engagement Alliance (NC CEAL) in partnership with CCPH and PRIME Collective launched the 2026 cohort of the Research Leadership Academy (RLA) on Friday, January 9, 2026 at the UNC Chapel Hill Friday Center.

The RLA invited 25 leaders from 13 North Carolina community-based organizations to participate in a 5-module leadership opportunity to explore research fundamentals to support the Scholars’ (RLA participants) health research projects. Scholars are invited to engage in sessions facilitated by content experts, practice labs to apply lessons, and peer learning opportunities to reflect back on what they have learned.

Read more about this gathering ⬇️
https://ccphealth.org/research-leadership-academy-principles-of-partnership-reflection/?mc_cid=6d28b5a83e&mc_eid=8c946104f7