Meharry-Vanderbilt Community Engaged Research Core

Community Research Partners presents "Using Primary Prevention through Cross-Sector Collaboration to Drive Population Health" from 8:30 to 10 a.m. on Friday, Aug. 4. Read More

The Community Scholars Program is sponsored by the Meharry-Vanderbilt Community Engaged Research Core to support community-engaged research. The program provides support for two graduate or postgraduate trainees. Read More

Community Research Partners presents “Parent-Based Sleep Education in Autism: A Community-Academic Research Partnership” from 8:30 to 10 a.m. Friday, Nov. 4. Read More

The recent Advancing the Science of Community Engaged Research Conference in Washington, D.C., hosted by Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Meharry Medical College, offered both researchers and community stakeholders a forum to rapidly disseminate community engaged research evidence and gain practical knowledge to implement new programs and enhance existing ones. Read More

The Meharry-Vanderbilt Alliance presents the Community Engagement Research Proseminar Series April 28–May 24. Read More

The Meharry-Vanderbilt Community Engaged Research Core is pleased to announce a new round of Community Engaged Research Mini-Grants, available for activities that promote ongoing, mutually beneficial, health-oriented research partnerships between community organizations and academic researchers. Read More

Are you interested in community-driven research, or are you seeking a community research partner? Academic researchers, research students and interested community members are invited to attend an interactive poster session sponsored by the Meharry-Vanderbilt Community Engaged Research Core. Read More

Life-changing lessons learned from seniors in the Wisdom of the Elders program will be on display at Sarratt Student Center Sept. 26. Read More

Staff of the Tennessee Health Care Campaign will share challenges and successes of the first Affordable Care Act open enrollment period and discuss regional and statewide plans for building on that success at “Affordable Care Act Open Enrollment 2.0.” Read More

The Meharry-Vanderbilt Community Engaged Research Core is sponsoring its annual Community Research Day from 8:30 to 11 a.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 23, at the offices of the United Way of Metro Nashville, 250 Venture Circle. The event will feature an interactive poster session in which community organizations present research… Read More

Enjoy a light breakfast and coffee as Leah Alexander, assistant professor at Meharry Medical College, and Raymond Mitchell, director of educational activities for the Association of Tennessee Alphamen, share their experience as collaborators in a community-engaged research effort to understand health behavior among African American men in Tennessee. The event is scheduled… Read More

The Meharry-Vanderbilt Alliance is seeking reviewers for its 15-year anniversary grants, which include partnership development and community-engaged research pilot grants. Read More

The Meharry Vanderbilt Alliance The Meharry-Vanderbilt Community Engaged Research Core will host a “Community Scholars Information Session” Thursday, March 6, from noon to 1:15 p.m. at the Meharry Vanderbilt Alliance, 1005 Dr. D.B. Todd Blvd., Nashville. The program provides support for two graduate or post-graduate trainees. Each will receive… Read More

The Meharry-Vanderbilt Community Engaged Research Core is hosting its monthly Community Research Partners meeting Friday, March 7. Join us for a light breakfast and coffee to hear about findings from a recently completed clinical trial involving pre-diabetic African American women. Presenters will share new findings about group biology as… Read More

At a recent Community Research Partners meeting hosted by the Meharry-Vanderbilt Community Engaged Research Core (CERC), Bruce Behringer MPH, deputy commissioner for Continuous Improvement and Training for the Tennessee Department of Health, spoke on the value of the ‘Give-Get Grid.’ Read More

The Meharry-Vanderbilt Community Engaged Research Core invites proposals for activities that promote on-going, mutually beneficial, health-oriented research partnerships between community organizations and academic researchers. Read More

The Meharry-Vanderbilt Community Engaged Research Core received national recognition for its development of community review boards to strengthen patient-centered research. Read More

The first Community Research Day, sponsored by the Meharry-Vanderbilt Alliance and the Meharry-Vanderbilt Community-Engaged Research Core, was held Tuesday at the MetroCenter headquarters of United Way of Metropolitan Nashville. Read More

As Carla Sevin, M.D., assistant professor of Medicine at Vanderbilt, began the process of writing a recent grant proposal, she was stumped. Read More