Presenter: Dr. Emma Kay

Presentation topic: Shared Voices, Shared Results: Community-Engaged Methods in Health Equity Research

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Learning objectives – by the end of the presentation, participants will be able to:

1) Describe the continuum of community engagement in research and identify key equity indicators and contextual factors that influence community-researcher partnerships.
2) Apply practical strategies for engaging community stakeholders, including stakeholder mapping techniques, co-design methodologies, and approaches for building rapport with community organizations.
3) Articulate the essential components of successful community-engaged research, including terminology considerations, shared leadership structures, and strategies for ensuring sustainability.

Bio: Dr. Kay is an Associate Professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Nursing. She has developed a rigorous community-engaged research agenda focused on harm reduction and improving health outcomes for people with and affected by HIV, leveraging prior experience as the founding director of a community-based research organization. Dr. Kay leads an R01 funded by the US National Institute on Drug Abuse that aims to develop the first harm reduction intervention for people with HIV who use drugs to incorporate both structural services (e.g., naloxone) and relational strategies (i.e., encompassing the patient-provider relationship).

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