This presentation will focus on how researchers and patient/community advisors can partner to address a public health problem. We will describe our collaboration, involving a diabetes-focused translational advisory board consisting of community health workers in Texas taking on pre-diabetes in our predominantly Latinx (Hispanic) communities. Multidisciplinary speakers will discuss our community based participatory research (CBPR) approach and guide attendees in use of CBPR principles, using several learning methods to generate new CBPR ideas for clinicians, researchers and community health workers.
Raquel Romero, Clinic Analyst, UT Health San Antonio Raquel Romero MD, MPH, CDCES, CHW-I
Belinda Flores, AHEC Director, South Coastal AHEC Belinda Flores RN, BS, CHW-I
Juana Escareño, Academic Programs Coordinator-Senior, LRGV AHEC Juana Escareño MS, CHW-I, CHW
Ariel Gomez, Area Health Education Centers (AHEC), UT Health San Antonio Ariel Gomez MPH
Ludivina Hernandez Ludivina Hernandez CHW-I
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