The CTSI Science Cafés and Nucleating Workshops are well-established “Community Translational Science/Research pathways” that enable our CTSI Circle of Community Engagement activities, participation in, and moreover, advancement of clinical and translational science/research (C&TR).
Objectives
To support bidirectional dialogue and dissemination about C&TR research/health science topics
To incorporate and facilitate direct interaction among researchers and community members in settings outside the walls of academia
To increase community health and research literacy and awareness
To broaden the reach and capacity for C&TR, with emphasis on inclusion of under-represented minority populations, as well as underserved populations
To create a platform for early, mid- and late-stage C&TR investigators to practice community-level education, and learn to participate within an authentic, equitable dialogue with the communities we serve
To bring ideas together and generate research protocols for Nucleating Workshops, where research/health topics are relevant to and/or generated by the community
Nucleating Workshops
Generate/facilitate multi-disciplinary team science/building and community engagement and participation in C&TR from the onset
Optimize community integration into the translational research continuum/process
Align workshop topics with interests of broad stakeholders (community, healthcare system, research scientists, clinicians, etc.)
Building from our regular successful community Science Café Program that was first established at St. Ann Center for Intergenerational Care (located in the heart of underserved/under-represented minority communities), we have established a new Faith-based/Ecumenical Science Café Program with a number of new partners, i.e., the Wisconsin General Baptist State Convention Inc.; which includes 30 predominantly African American churches in the Milwaukee area. New partnerships also include St. Christopher Episcopal Church in White Fish Bay (where a new multiple panel member platform strategy has been engaged), Providence Baptist Church, and Gerald L. Ignace Indian Health Center. Given these new partnerships, more than 25 Science Cafés are planned for 2020. As such, we anticipate that the 2020 Science Cafés will lead to a number of numerous multidisciplinary team science Nucleating Workshops with community participation.
Below is a schedule of the upcoming Science Cafes in 2020.
Upcoming Science Cafés: May – November, 2020
Month
Date
Location
Topic
Presenter(s)
May
05-03-20
Sun
Blessed Deliverance Church
Top 10 Health Issues Women Worry About: HPV/Cervical Cancer
Dr. Denise Uyar
05-03-20
Sun
Mt Zion Baptist Church
Immune System and Aging
Dr. Mary Beth Graham
05-13-20
Wed
Canaan Missionary Baptist Church
Intermittent Fasting and Controlling Blood Sugars
Dr. Dessie Levy
05-16-19
Sat
St. Christopher’s Episcopal Church
CANCELLED: Menopause
Dr. Joan Neuner
Dr. Karen Frick
05-18-20
Mon
King Solomon Baptist Church
Stroke
TBD
Jun
06-09-20
Tue
Gerald L Ignace American Indian Health Center
Suicide Prevention
Sara Kohlbeck
06-17-20
Wed
Canaan Missionary Baptist Church
Alzheimer’s Disease
Gina Green Harris
06-29-20
Mon
King Solomon
Diabetes/IF
Dr. Dessie Levy
Jul
Friday
07-10-20
CTSI 500 Stars
Organ Donation
Tonnie Boston
07-13-20
Mon
General Baptist State Convention of WI -Congress of Christian Education
Depression and Stress in African American Men
Alfonso Watkins
07-27-20
Mon
King Solomon
Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Dr. Seema Menon
Aug
08-06-20
Thu
Gerald L Ignace American Indian Health Center
Smoking Cessation
Dr. Valerie Bonne
08-24-20
Mon
Providence Baptist Church
Alzheimer’s: The Caregiver’s Perspective
TBD
08-26-20
Wed
True Love Missionary Baptist Church
Importance of Immunization: Dispelling Myth…
Dr. Joe Barbieri
Dr. Anne Huppler
Sep
09-09-20
Wed
Zion Hill Missionary Baptist Church
Diabetes and Sugar/Artificial Sweeteners
Andrea Moosreiner
09-28-20
Mon
Providence Baptist Church
Sickle Cell Disease
Dr. Dora Jones
Memory Bacon
09-29-20
Tue
Zion Hill Missionary Baptist Church
The Role of the Church in Stress Reduction for African Americans
TBD
Oct
10-13-20
Tue
Gerald L Ignace American Indian Health Center
Healthy Eating on the Go
Andrea Moosreiner
10-26-20
Mon
Providence Baptist Church
ADD/ADHD
Dr. Kenneth Grizzle
10-28-20
Wed
True Love Missionary Baptist Church
Testimonials of African American Women and Breast Cancer
NIH Funding Acknowledgment:Important Reminder – Please acknowledge the NIH when publishing papers, patents, projects, and presentations resulting from the use of CTSI resources by including the NIH Funding Acknowledgement.
