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Bridging Research and Action in Community Collaborations

Explore the responsibilities and challenges faced by researchers in community collaborations, focusing on sharing information, utilizing power, and translating research into programs, policy, and advocacy. Learn about harm reduction initiatives in Baltimore and the Harm Reduction Working Group's efforts to connect with local resources and promote dialogue. Discover how connections to the media can amplify research findings and advocate for new programs.

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Bridging Research and Action in Community Collaborations

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  1. JHSBH and Community Collaborations: putting research into action Susan G. Sherman, PhD, MPH Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

  2. Researchers Responsibilities • To study participants and population • To staff • To communities in which they live • To policies in which drug users live

  3. Challenges of Research • Real time vs. research time • Only some participants may benefit • Replication

  4. Responsibility to Community • Share information learned in research • Share information from literature, conferences • Utilize “power” in exposure, position, connection • Role as conduit from research to programs, policy, advocacy

  5. A Bit about Baltimore Approximately 10% (65,000) of Baltimore city residents use heroin, with half injecting (DEA, 2000).

  6. Links with NEP • Legitimate role • NEP evaluator for the past decade • Credible voice for data to legislature • Overdose prevention program evaluator for past year • Under the table • Syringe distribution policies • Provision of services and materials • Connecting clients with resources

  7. Establishing Harm Reduction Working Group • Collaboration with health department • Networks with local resources • Creating a forum for harm reduction change in city • Demystify harm reduction

  8. Harm Reduction Working Group • Network of people • Housing • Drug treatment • Homeless services • NGO focusing on recently released inmates at city jail • NEP • Job training • HIV prevention NGOs

  9. HRWG Goals • Establish dialogue • Venue for information dissemination • Creation of speakers bureau • Creation of client-centered services

  10. Connections to the Media • Find a journalist • Dissemination of research findings • Young drug users • Advocate for new city programs • Comment on local news • jail

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