*please excuse cross-postings Dear CANCHID colleagues, Community-Campus Partnerships for Health is pleased to announce the 7th call in our 2009-2010 Educational Conference Call Series on Building Community Capacity for Research! Register online today at https://catalysttools.washington.edu/webq/survey/ccphuw/89128 The call is free of charge for those dialing in from the US and Canada. Access the audiofiles and handouts from past calls in the series at http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/pastpresentations.html. WHEN: January 13 from 3:30 - 5 pm eastern time WHAT: Citizen Engagement at the Canadian Institutes of Health Research: From Governance to Community-Based Research (CBR) This call will focus on citizen engagement activities at the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the Government of Canada's agency responsible for funding health research in Canada. In 2007, CIHR embarked on the development of a Citizen Engagement Framework to guide the agency's meaningful involvement of individual citizens in both strategic priority-setting and in research processes. During this call, participants will learn about CIHR's Citizen Engagement Framework and how it is being implemented at the macro level (eg, through the agency's governance structure, strategic planning and peer review processes), the mid level (eg, through Institute and branch initiatives) and the micro level (eg, through funding programs and tools such as community-based research initiatives). Through the call, participants will be encouraged to consider ways they can contribute to public research funding agency priority-setting and research processes, as well as ways they can engage citizens more meaningfully in their work. A CBR housing study funded through CIHR entitled "Positive Spaces, Healthy Places: An Innovative Community-Academic-Policy Partnership" will also be showcased. Speakers on the call will include: *Chaidwick Leneis, Senior Knowledge Synthesis and Exchange Specialist in the Synthesis and Exchange Branch of CIHR *Rosa Venuta, Senior Advisor, Citizen Engagement in the Partnerships and Citizen Engagement Branch of CIHR *Sean Rourke, Executive Director, Ontario HIV Treatment Network and Principal Investigator of the CBR study, "Positive Spaces, Healthy Places" Visit these websites for more information on the topics and projects that will be discussed on the call: CIHR http://www.cihr-irsc.gc.ca/e/193.html CIHR's Citizen Engagement Framework http://www.cihr-irsc.gc.ca/e/39216.html#16 Healthier Together: The CIHR Partnerships Casebook http://www.cihr-irsc.gc.ca/e/documents/partnerships_casebook_e.pdf Positive Spaces, Healthy Places Study http://www.cihr-irsc.gc.ca/e/39503.html#14 Become a CCPH fan on Facebook and follow us on Twitter! Click on these links to sign up: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Community-Campus-Partnerships-for-Health/215367077241?v=wall http://twitter.com/CCPH2010 ****************************************************************************** Community-Campus Partnerships for Health promotes health (broadly defined) through partnerships between communities and higher educational institutions. Become a member today at www.ccph.info Join us for CCPH's 11th Conference, "Creating the Future We Want to Be: Transformation through Partnerships," May 12-15, 2010 in Portland, Oregon! ****************************************************************************** Access CANCHID archives at: https://listserv.yorku.ca/archives/canchid.html plus CANCHID subscription management. CANCHID is a joint service of the Canadian Society for International Health < http:www.csih.org > and the Distributed Knowledge Project at York University. Queries to: [log in to unmask]