Community Engagement Research Program (CERP) Presents
"Community Health Matters:
Building Successful Academic and Community Partnerships to Achieve Health Equity”
The 2nd Annual CERP Community Partnership Forum will provide participants with the tools required to develop and sustain, successful and mutually-beneficial, community-university research partnerships to increase public health in Atlanta, and beyond.
Thursday, May 28, 2015 (9:00am – 4:45pm)
Friday, May 29, 2015 (9:00am-12:30 pm)
Louis W. Sullivan National Center for Primary Care Building
Meet the Keynote Speaker
Dr. Derrick C. Tabor is a program director at the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, NIMHD. In 2004, at the request Dr. John Ruffin, founding Director of the NIMHD, he moved from the National Institute on General Medical Sciences, NIGMS, to join the NIMHD as the sole program director for the NIMHD Centers of Excellence Project Program. Launched two years earlier in 2002, the Excellence in Partnerships for Community Outreach, Research on Health Disparities and Training program, branded as Project EXPORT, is the largest and most diverse of the six congressionally mandated Centers of Excellence programs at the National Institutes of Health, NIH. In addition to his COE responsibilities, he is the program director for the Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer Research programs, and is a project scientist on several cooperative agreement awards
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