CHEER
Dr. Michelle Taylor gives presentation, "Getting Ahead, How does Education Affect My Health" to Upward-Bound students at LeMoyne-Owen College.
STEP UP teens are fighting against Health Disparities.
CHEER presents research at the "2012 Summit on the Science of Eliminating Health Disparities; Building A Healthier Society Integrating Science, Policy, and Practice."
Dr. White-Means is presenting "What is CHEER doing to address Health Disparities?" in CHEER seminar.
Dr.Wicks is giving her presentation "Effect of an INSIGHT Depression Intervention for Caregivers of Hemodialysis Patients Description"
Faith-based Initiatives to Promote Healthy Eating - Speaker: Dr. Michael O. Minor, national champion of faith-based health & wellness mobilization. Known as the "Southern pastor who banned fried chicken in his church."
Patricia Cowan, Ph.D, discusses how a small change in your daily diet can control weight gain, and how parental obesity can also be associated with childhood obesity
Seminar: The Crisis Center and Memphis Mental Health Resources - Speaker: Mike LaBonte, MA. Mike is Executive Director of the Richard G. Farmer and Allen O. Battle Crisis Center. 12-6-11
Seminar: "Comparison of Fresh Food Access in the US and Denmark: Exploring Complementary Public Policy and Private Lifestyles" - Speaker: Sharon Bush Pedersen, PhD from Denmark
Finalists for the Memphis Business Jounal's Health Care Hero Award include Dr. White-Means, recognizing CHEER's contributions to improving health care through community outreach.
Shelley White-Means, PhD and Melvin Jones at the Black Business Directory (BBD) release ceremony
Dr. Leon Caldwell speaks to seminar attendees about CBPR
2011 Annual CHEER Spring Conference attendees listens as speakers address issues and provides solutions to health disparities
Melvin Jones gives BBD plaque to CHEER Exec. Dir. Shelley White-Means, PhD and UTHSC Executive Vice Chancellor Kennard Brown, JD, MPA, PhD, FACHE
Leon Caldwell, PhD receives the Community Based Participatory Research Award at the 2011 Annual CHEER Spring Conference
Brian Smedley, PhD speaks at the 2011 Annual CHEER Spring Conference attendees about "Connecting Social Conditions and Health"
At his seminar, "The Hip Hop Doc" aka Rani Whitfield, MD addresses the crowd about how hip hop can be used to reach populations affected by health disparities.
The Consortium for Health Education, Economic Empowerment and Research (CHEER) is a community-based participatory health disparities research center funded by the National Center for Minority Health and Health Disparities. CHEER has as its primary mission to: engage in community-based collaborations to accomplish research and incorporate the role of community assets and personal economic efficacy in order to drive healthy lifestyles for at risk persons of all racial and ethnic backgrounds in Memphis and the Mississippi Delta region. We expect these efforts to result in new and innovative approaches to address high rates of chronic illnesses for persons who live in the Delta region and to mitigate racial/ethnic inequities in health status.
CHEER has four specific aims:
- To inform the design of intervention strategies aimed at reducing population health disparities by developing outcomes measures and monitoring signals to assess progress in impacting health of urban African-American and immigrant populations in Memphis and surrounding Delta regions of poverty;
- To develop and implement transdisciplinary, interdisciplinary, and inter-institutional basic, behavioral, clinical, and population-based research on health disparities.
- To actively engage community representatives and health-care providers in collaboratively setting priorities for research, outreach and assessing activities that address health disparities; and
- To attract, retain and educate trans-disciplinary professionals sensitive to the need to prepare, disseminate, and implement use of culturally relevant and research-based health education materials and interventions in work in Memphis and the surrounding Delta region.
The CHEER Partnership
CHEER was initially founded as a partnership of seven organizations who worked together to develop, share, and implement research priorities that impacted minority health and reduced health inequities. The founding collaborating organizations included the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC), Methodist Le Bonheur Hospital, LeMoyne-Owen College (LOC), the Memphis and Shelby County Health Department (MSCHD), Memphis Housing Authority (MHA), First Baptist Church Lauderdale (FBCL), and Mustard Seed Inc (MS). Initial funding for CHEER was made possible (in part) by 1P20MD005118-01 from the National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities. Subsequent funding has been provided by The Assisi Foundation of Memphis, Inc. and Tennessee Department of Health.
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Phone: 901-448-7666
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