Interviews with Notable Contributors in the Development of Community Science
Meet Community Science: Tom Kelly, M.P.H.
Using Geographic Information System (GIS) for Evaluation and Promoting Equity
Using Geographic Information System (GIS) for Evaluation and Promoting Equity
Staff Profile: Elisa González
Meet, Elisa M. González, Ph.D., Senior Analyst ...
Staff Spotlight: Lindsay Bynum
Meet Community Science: Lindsay Bynum, Ph.D., Senior Analyst
Preparing for the Next Crisis in Public Health: One Future Minority Health Professional at a Time
With so many government public health workers retiring and [...]
Interviews from Notable Contributors to Community Science
Meet Community Science: Interview with Margaret (Meg) Hargreaves, Ph.D., Principal Associate, and Amy Minzner, M.S.C.R.P., M.A., Senior Associate.
Communities as Key Arenas for Innovation: Building Community Capacity to Address Adverse Childhood Experiences and Increase Resilience
Adverse Childhood Experiences (or ACEs)1 — commonly defined as 10 types of child abuse, neglect, and family exposure to toxic stress — comprise a complex, population-wide health problem with significant detrimental outcomes. Past research has shown that exposure to ACEs is related to a range of poor adult outcomes, including increased risk of alcohol and drug use, mental health problems, poor physical health, and risky behaviors. Furthermore, research has shown that toxic stress, associated with exposure to ACEs, disrupts neurodevelopment and leads to impaired decision making, impulse control, and resistance to disease; increase in adoption of risky behaviors; and an early onset of disease, disability, and death. Unfortunately, exposure to ACEs is common in the general U.S. population, with about one in four adults reporting three or more ACEs.
Staff Profiles: Summer Graduate Interns
Meet Community Sciences summer interns!
Community Science Gives Back!
A very important part of Community Science's mission is to directly give back to the local community and support national organizations that promote social justice and equity through donations in service. Each year Community Science staff members recommend a charity for the organization to make a donation on their behalf as their "holiday gift." In 2017, donations were made to the list of organizations noted below.
Staff Profile: Maria Fernanda Mata
Meet Community Science: Maria Fernanda Mata, MA, Analyst
Sense of Community Website Launch
Sense of Community Website Launch Community Science is pleased to [...]
The Tragedy of Professionalizing Social Change: We Are the System We Seek to Change
There is little doubt that this country and this world are seeing monumental challenges that we have not seen in decades, if ever. Racism and other forms of hate have become legitimized in many more places than we have seen in a while. There is a rise of authoritarian rule, “bullyism,” and violence against women and minorities. In this country, the basic social contract of a caring state and a common community (e pluribus unum - or “out of many, one”) is being threatened on nearly an hourly basis.