Join ITM's Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) Training on April 8, 2025.Speaker Jeni Hebert-Beirne, PhD, MPH, at the University of Illinois Chicago, will discuss Community Engagement through the Greater Lawndale Healthy Work Study.

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The CBPR TRA is to train and then provide resources for two ITM investigators. CBPR-TRA investigators can request up to $10,000 in the first year, with $5,000 each for the investigator and community leader. In the second year, teams can propose a pilot CBPR project with a budget of up to $30,000. Apply by April 15.

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Lindsay Sheehan, Ph.D., will give a talk titled “Introduction to the Institute for Translational Medicine (ITM) Training and Research Award on Community-Based Participatory Research” on February 21, 2025, at 8-9 a.m.

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Join the Institute for Translational Medicine (ITM) on January 14, 2025, for a talk titled "Approaches to Community Engagement in Research: Examples from the Chicagoland CEAL Program" with speaker Molly Martin. 

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Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) projects are defined by questions reflecting a focal health condition (e.g., diabetes, arthritis, asthma, or major depression) intersecting with a specific diverse community (e.g., ethnicity, faith-based community, or gender identity). The CBPR  Training & Research Award (TRA) is to train and then provide resources for two Institute for Translational Medicine (ITM) investigators.

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