CENTER FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND HEALTH POLICY RESEARCH

The Center for Public Health and Health Policy Research has an active agenda aimed at improving health in minority communities on Long Island.  In collaboration with Literacy Suffolk, the Center has received a National Institutes of Health Partners in Research grant entitled Community Alliance for Research Empowering Social Change (CARES). CARES consists of an interdisciplinary team of researchers, community-based organizations, and community members working together to improve minority health outcomes through evidence based public health. The Center has also hosted the Think Tank for African American Progress on Long Island in the spring 2010.  The focus of the meeting was to inspire and assist young, black women to develop their full potential.  The Center collaborates closely with the Suffolk County Minority Health Action Coalition, which has held three mini-summits on Long Island to develop partnerships for health improvement projects.  The Center also collaborates with the Witness Project, which seeks to educate women in minority communities about cancer prevention and screening.

CPHHPR in the Community

The Center for Public Health and Health Policy Research has sponsored three Mini-Summits on Minority Health!

• Summit One: July 25th, 2007 Founding Summit and Coalition Meeting: Race, Class, and Public Health 
• Summit Two: October 10th, 2007 Community-Based Participatory Research
• Summit Three: February 28th, 2008 Ribbon Cutting Ceremony for the Suffolk County Minority Health Coalition: The Power of Partnerships    

CPHHPR Partners

The Witness Project (R) of Long Island, is a culturally competent health education and outreach program to increase community awareness about breast cancer within Suffolk County's African American population.  (Click Here for The Witness Project Website!)

Suffolk County Minority Action Committee is formed to capitalize on the strengths of minority and medically undeserved communities to enhance existing social, political and economic networks that will increase social capital and empower communities to become agents of social change. (Click Here for The Suffolk County Minority Action Committee Webpage!)

For more information, please contact the Center at CPHHPR@gmail.com  or at 631-444-1625