Community Engagement Core Resource (CECR)
The Community Engagement Core Resource (CECR) fosters public engagement in translational health research through consultations, study promotion, and off-campus activity space.
The Columbia Community Partnership for Health (CCPH), a partnership between the Irving Institute and the VP&S Office of Community Health, is our off-campus physical home in Washington Heights. CCPH provides Columbia University researchers and not-for-profit organizations serving upper Manhattan and The Bronx with free activity space for research and health related programming. In addition, CCPH connects community residents to health and social services and facilitates access to health research through study promotion.
CECR fosters community-engaged research consultation with the STAR Ambassadors Program, an advisory group of local community members and leaders.
Services
Leadership
Dodi D. Meyer, MD
- Co-Director; Professor of Pediatrics at the Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons (VP&S)
Ruth Masterson Creber, PhD, MSc, RN, FAAN, FAHA, FHFSA
- Co-Director; Mary Crawford Professor of Nursing at the Columbia University School of Nursing (CUSON)
Elizabeth Cohn, PhD, RN
- Community Engagement and Research Liaison; Vice President for Health Equity Research; Iris and Saul Katz Chair in Women’s Health Research at the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research
Rachel Shelton, ScD, MPH
- Professor of Sociomedical Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health
Olajide Williams, MD
- Professor of Neurology; Vice Dean for Community Health, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
Alejandra N. Aguirre, DrPH, MPH
- Assistant Professor of Community Health Initiatives; Assistant Vice Dean for Community Health, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons