Toronto - Wellesley Seminar Series -Dr. Meredith Minkler, December 10th

Wellesley Urban Health Seminar Series Presents Dr. Meredith Minkler
Date: December 10th, 2004 - 9:30am-12:00pm
Location: Munk Centre for International Studies

WCHC and the Lupina Foundation are pleased to announce that North America's
authority on Community Based Research, Dr. Meredith Minkler, is coming
exclusively to the Munk Centre to speak on the subject of Community-Based
Participatory Research (CBPR) as a means of promoting health public
policy.
In her talk she will discuss and illustrate by example some of the
leading efforts to impact on policy through CBPR and also talk about the
emerging success factors, tensions and challenges involved in such work.  She
will also discuss some of the difficulties that arise as efforts are made to
tease apart the contributions of CBPR from those of other developments
that impact policy outcomes.  Finally, Dr. Minkler will speak to the value
of some of the contributions WCHC is making by promoting work at a policy
level.

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Space is limited.

Speaker Biography: Meredith Minkler

Meredith Minkler, Dr. PH is Professor of Health and Social Behavior and
Director of the Dr. PH Program at the School of Public Health,
University of California, Berkeley. She has close to 30 years' experience in
working with under served communities on community-identified issues through
community building, community organizing, and community based
participatory research. Her current research  includes documenting the impacts
of community based participatory research on public policy, empowerment
intervention studies with youth and the elderly, and national studies
of health disparities in older Americans.  Dr. Minkler is co-author or
editor of 7 books and over 100 articles and book chapters including Community
Organizing and Community Building for Health (2nd edition 2004),
Grandmothers as Caregivers (with Kathleen Roe), Critical Perspectives
on Aging (with Carroll L. Estes), and the co-edited volume Community Based
Participatory Research for Health (with Nina Wallerstein).

For more information, please visit:
http://sph.berkeley.edu:7133/faculty/minkler.htm

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