Community Empowered Research Training (CERT) Materials

The CERT program was an academic-community partnership dedicated to strengthening community leadership in research. Geared towards Executive Directors and Program Directors and Managers, CERT offers free workshops and webinars to strengthen the capacity of community-based organizations to participate in and develop community-focused research initiatives.

The overall goal of the CERT program is to increase racial and ethnic diversity in the field of research and community health by encouraging community-based organizations to engage in research as a means to eliminating health disparities and contributing to the national dialogue on community health.

There are three main objectives of the CERT program:

  1. To increase awareness of CBOs’ role in research to affect change at the community level
  2. To build recognition of the importance of community-based knowledge and research in adding to the national dialogue on racial and ethnic health disparities
  3. To increase the number of CBOs that engage in research initiatives

The following partners were engaged in the collaborative development and implementation of CERT:

For more information about the CERT Program, please contact Jennifer Wong, Senior Program Coordinator at Jennifer.Wong@nyulangone.org.

CERT Workshops and Webinars

CERT workshops address relevant issues to community groups such as how research benefits non-profits, perspectives on the role and importance of research from grantmakers, sustaining programs and initiatives, using data to inform policy and practice, and how to write a winning grant proposal. CERT workshops also offer opportunities to network with other community groups, academic researchers, grantmakers, and government representatives. CERT webinars cover such topics as How to Conduct a Program Evaluation and How to Access Relevant Census Data to Address Health Disparities.

Please see below to access archived educational videos and PowerPoint presentations from past workshops and webinars CSAAH hosted alongside our community and local partners.

Past Webinars:

Past Workshops:

May 19-20, 2011 Workshop

Below are streaming video presentations and links to the pertaining PowerPoint presentations (when applicable) from CERT’s two-day workshop on May 19-20, 2011. View the agenda.

How Research Benefits Non-Profits | PPT Slides
Presenter: Shao-Chee Sim, Director of Research and Evaluation, Charles B. Wang Community Health Center

Perspectives from Grantmakers
Moderator: Claudia Calhoon, Program Manager, Community Engagement and Population Health Research Core of the NYU-HHC CTSI; Panelists: Irfan Hasan, Program Officer, NY Community Trust; Cindy Lamy, Manager, Metrics, Robin Hood Foundation; George Suttles, Program Officer, NY State Health Foundation

A Practical Guide to Navigating Community-University Partnerships | PPT Slides
Presenter: Nadia Islam, Deputy Director of Research, NYU Center for the Study of Asian American Health

Community-Academic-State Partnership: A Case Study | PPT Slides
Presenter: Fahina Tavake-Pasi, Executive Director, National Tongan American Society Salt Lake City, Utah

A Case Study: Barbershop Talk with Brothers: HIV/AIDS Risk Reduction Among Heterosexual Men of African Descent | PPT Slides
Presenter: Humberto Brown, Director of Health Disparity Initiatives and New Constituency Development, Arthur Ashe Institute for Urban Health

Sustaining Programs and Initiatives
Presenter: Fran Barrett, Director of Capacity Building at Atlantic Philanthropies and Former Executive Director of Community Resource Exchange

Community Empowered Research Training: Some thoughts about Research Methodology | PPT Slides
Presenter: Runi Mukherji, Chair, Department of Psychology, SUNY College at Old Westbury

Data Collection and Analysis | PPT Slides
Presenter: Yumary Ruiz, Clinical Assistant Professor of Public Health, NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development

Institutional Review Boards (IRBs): How the community and IRB can work together | PPT Slides
Presenter: Joy Jurnack, Education Analyst, NYU Langone Medical Center

Using Data to Inform Policy and Practice
Moderator: Shao-Chee Sim, Director of Research and Evaluation, Charles B. Wang Community Health Center; Panelists: Anthony Ng, Director of Policy and Advocacy, United Neighborhood Houses; Noilyn Abesamis-Mendoza, Health Policy Manager, Coalition for Asian American Children & Families; John Choe, Director of Policy Development, New York City’s Comptroller Office

Grant Writing for Sustaining our Work | PPT Slides
Presenter: Simona Kwon, Research Scientist, NYU Center for the Study of Asian American Health

December 2, 2011 Workshop

Listed below are the PowerPoint presentations from CERT’s 1-Day workshop on December 2, 2011.
View the agenda.

Community Empowered Research Training (CERT) Workshop Overview
Presenter: Catlin Rideout, Partnership Development and Research Training Coordinator, Center for the Study of Asian American Health

How Research Benefits Nonprofits & Community-Academic Partnerships
Presenters: Peter Cheng, Executive Director, Indochina Sino-American Community Center; Nadia Islam, Deputy Director of Research, Center for the Study of Asian American Health

Some Thoughts About Research Methodology and Design
Presenter: Runi Mukherji, Chair, Department of Psychology, SUNY College at Old Westbury

CBO Case Studies & Group Discussion
Presenters: Linda Lee, Associate Executive Director, Korean Community Services of Metropolitan New York, Inc. ; Fahina Pasi, Executive Director, National Tongan-American Society

Round Table on Perspectives and Insights into Federal Public Health Initiatives
Moderator: Lloyd Asato, Consultant, BuildCommunity;
Panelists: Roger Hayes, Assistant Commissioner, East & Central Harlem District Public Health Office, NYC DOHMH; Lynne Nguyen, Director, Population & Community Core, Center for Community Engaged Translational Research at MD Anderson Cancer Center; Board Chair, HOPE Clinic; Charmaine Manansala, Vice President for Strategic Engagement Initiatives, Asian & Pacific Islander American Health Forum

Overview of Grant Writing and Mock Review
Presenter: Simona Kwon, Associate Investigator and Assistant Professor, Center for the Study of Asian American Health