Community-Engaged Research to Advance Health Equity: Co-Creating Knowledge through Research

Are you eager to advance social justice and health equity? Are you wondering how to address sponsors’ requests to describe your plans for engaging community in research? This workshop will describe what it takes to shift power to community through research. Listen to the insights of experts from the BUSSW and BUSM who have built careers in community-engaged research for health equity. Learn about and discuss: • How institutional structures and white supremacy shape the academic research enterprise • Steps you can take to co-design and submit research proposals with communities • Resources at BU that will help you grow in your ability to practice the principles of community engaged and participatory research