ADAPT, a collaboration of Tufts and seven Chinatown community partners, is sponsoring an Asian health symposium on Thursday, April 3^rd.  Download the flyer.  Some highlights are below

• At 9:15 a.m., there will be a keynote address by Dr. Chau Trinh-Shevrin who is the Director of the Center for the Study of Asian American Health at New York University.  Her talk “Advancing Asian American Health Research and Health Equity: Context, Progress, and Lessons Learned” will both provide a national perspective on Asian health and also speak about the importance of engaging the community in research collaborations. 

• At 10:15 a.m. Doug Brugge, PhD, Professor of Public Health and Community Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine and Lydia Lowe, Executive Director of the Chinese Progressive Association will give a talk “Traffic Pollution in Chinatown: From Research to Action.”  This is a talk about the CAFEH (Community Assessment of Freeway Exposure for Health) project, a large scale community-based participatory research project in Chinatown that is looking at the impact of highway pollution on cardiovascular health.  

• At 11 a.m. there will be small group break-out sessions on building academic-community research collaborations.   

• 12 p.m. Lunch and networking. 

Breakfast and lunch will be provided. Feel free to bring colleagues.

Please register so we can get an appropriate head count for food.  You can register at: http://www.tuftsctsi.org/Calendar/2014/4/3/Asian-Health-Symposium.aspx

Carolyn L. Rubin, EdD, MA

Assistant Professor, Tufts University School of Medicine

Community Navigator and Associate Director, Aligning Researchers with Communities for Health, Tufts Clinical and Translational Science Institute

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