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Childbirth Experience Sparks Maternal Health Career, Advocacy
October 17, 2023 | Five Questions with RN Tiffany Vassell on overcoming bias and achieving equity.
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Tapping Community Insights to Improve Research Diversity
August 22, 2023 | Five Questions with Kei Ouchi on collaborating with the Community Coalition for Equity in Research.
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System Catalysts: Finding Solutions to Tough Problems
July 27, 2023 | New podcast focuses on successfully addressing persistent problems in today's world.
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Weaving a New Narrative Around Health Equity
March 28, 2023 | Five Questions with Nancy B. Smith on engaging communities in research.
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Five Questions with Albert Pless & Carolina Trujillo
July 11, 2022 | Our Community Coalition for Equity in Research works to integrate community voices into research.
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Five Questions with Karen Emmons
June 11, 2020 | Our Community Engagement faculty lead discusses the importance of community engagement in the era of COVID-19 and her focus on implementation science.
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COVID-19 Research Community Forum
June 4, 2020 | Four Massachusetts clinical and translational science centers, including Harvard Catalyst, host webinar series focused on COVID-19 research and health equity.
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Five Questions With … Elsie Taveras
January 23, 2020 | Our co-faculty lead for child health discusses her research on obesity as part of our Community Engagement program.
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