Community Coalition Team

Objectives of Community Coalition Team

• Create a centralized mechanism to support and enhance investigators-community relationships to increase community-academy collaborations
• Provide useful advice to investigators who are conducting basic, behavioral and clinical/health services research projects in research areas of high interest to the community
• Increase investigators’ ability to understand and incorporate community perspectives in research projects addressing minority health and health disparities
• Define strategies to improve the recruitment and retention of study participants
• Work and establish methods to disseminate research findings to a variety of audiences

 

Stakeholders of the Community Coalition Team

 

 

Members

 

eduardo
 

Eduardo Lamadrid

American Heart Association

maria
 

María Cristy

American Cancer Society

edna
 

Edna Pacheco

Centro Mujer y Salud-MSC

jose
 

José R. Guzmán

March of Dimes

sonia
 

Sonia Cardona

Merck & Co.

mariluz
 

Mariluz Franco

Institute for Interdisciplinary Research-UPR Cayey

edel
 

Edel Guzmán

Special Supplemental Nutrition Program

for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC)

milagros
 

Milagros Otero

Cancer Patient Advocate

Amarilys
 

Amarilys Silva

Puerto Rico Consortium

for Clinical Investigation

aileen
 

Aileen Rivera

G-8, Inc.

hector
 

Héctor Villanueva

HealthProMed