January 2024: M-LEEaD Newsletter January 2024: Partnership Development Program, Member News, and More! • M-LEEaD’s Community Engagement core is excited to announce our “Partnership Development Program” (PDP). The PDP provides financial and technical support for new partnerships between community members and researchers. We can also support existing partnerships taking on new or expanded collaborative research efforts. Applicants should be working in partnership to address research questions related to environmental health and justice issues—either their causes or their solutions or both. Applications must be submitted on behalf of at least two partners: an academic partner and a community group, community-based organization or government agency in Detroit, Southeast Michigan or other Michigan communities experiencing environmental health... Read more

December 2023: M-LEEaD Newsletter November/December 2023: APHA Updates, Member News • This year’s American Public Health Association (APHA) conference from November 12-15 was organized around the theme of “Creating the Healthiest Nation: Overcoming Social & Ethical Challenges.” M-LEEaD’s Community Engagement Core was well represented at the event in Atlanta! Sam Karsky, Alison Walding and Amy Schulz presented a poster session on behalf of the Community Action to Promote Healthy Environments Partnership titled “Participatory, formative evaluation of the Community Action to Promote Healthy Environments (CAPHE) partnership: Results and actions, 2014-2023“ in a session on the impact of community-based and community-engaged research. CAPHE partners from Southwest Detroit Environmental Vision, the Ecology Center and... Read more