The Meharry Community Engagement Core connects community members and organizations with Meharry researchers to conduct research and share results that will improve health for communities that experience the poorest health outcomes.
To eradicate health and healthcare disparities through long-term, collaborative, mutually beneficial community/academic research partnership.
The mission of the Meharry Community Engagement Core is to “combine the passion, knowledge, and skills of community partners and academic researchers to carry out research, share research results, and put into practice research findings that advance health equity and improve health for communities that experience the poorest health outcomes.”
Apart from efforts to increase community capacity to engage in research and partner with them in advancing their own health-related priorities, the Community Engagement Core provides direct support to Meharry researchers, including:
A Community Advisory Board, including representatives form health advocacy, health equity, and faith-based organizations, provides guidance to the Community Engagement Core and serves as one avenue for researchers to get community feedback about their research and explore potential community-academic research partnerships.
For any inquires contact, Community Engagement Core Director, Stephania Miller-Hughes PhD MS, smiller@mmc.edu or Co-Director, Leah Alexander PhD MPH, lalexander@mmc.edu or Program Manager, Mariah Chambers MHA, mchambers@mmc.edu
To learn more about the Community Engagement Core, visit their website below.
Development and validation of MedDRA Tagger: a tool for extraction and structuring medical information from clinical notes.
Marie Humbert-Droz, Jessica Corley, Suzanne Tamang, Olivier Gevaert
A Retrospective Community Perspective: Bridging the Health Disparity Gap with Obesity as the Leading Comorbidity in Disparities in Health Outcomes in the COVID-19 Pandemic.
Odiase Peace, Henry Terry, Amita Banga, Kartik Rachakonda, Amar P Garg, Girish Rachakonda
Creating Optimal Conditions for OPA1 Isoforms by Western Blot in Skeletal Muscle Cells and Tissue.
Dominique C Stephens, Margaret Mungai, Amber Crabtree, Heather K Beasley, Edgar Garza-Lopez, Kit Neikirk, Serif Bacevac, Larry Vang, Zer Vue, Neng Vue, Andrea G Marshall, Kyrin Turner, Jianqiang Shao, Sandra Murray, Jennifer A Gaddy, Celestine Wanjalla, Jamaine Davis, Steven Damo, Antentor O Hinton
Components of Isolated Skeletal Muscle Differentiated Through Antibody Validation.
Dominique C Stephens, Margaret Mungai, Amber Crabtree, Heather K Beasley, Edgar Garza-Lopez, Larry Vang, Kit Neikirk, Zer Vue, Neng Vue, Andrea G Marshall, Kyrin Turner, Jian-Qiang Shao, Bishnu Sarker, Sandra Murray, Jennifer A Gaddy, Jamaine Davis, Steven M Damo, Antentor O Hinton
Optimizing In Situ Proximity Ligation Assays for Mitochondria, ER, or MERC Markers in Skeletal Muscle Tissue and Cells.
Dominique C Stephens, Amber Crabtree, Heather K Beasley, Edgar Garza-Lopez, Kit Neikirk, Margaret Mungai, Larry Vang, Zer Vue, Neng Vue, Andrea G Marshall, Kyrin Turner, Jianqiang Shao, Sandra Murray, Jennifer A Gaddy, Celestine Wanjalla, Jamaine Davis, Steven Damo, Antentor O Hinton
Process Mapping to inform implementation of Trauma-Informed Care for youth aged 14-24 with HIV in the Southern United States.
Leslie Lauren Brown, Megan Leigh Wilkins, Latrice Crystal Pichon, Jamie Lynn Stewart, Jessica McDermott Sales, Carolyn Marie Audet, Samantha Veronica Hill, April Christine Pettit