Community Engagement Core Resource (CECR)

The Community Engagement Core Resource (CECR) promotes academic-community partnerships and public engagement in translational health research through outreach, education, informatics, training, and funding programs.

The Columbia Community Partnership for Health (CCPH), CECR’s off-campus physical home in Washington Heights, provides free activity space for health related programming to Columbia University researchers and not-for-profit organizations serving upper Manhattan. In addition, CCPH connects residents to health and social services, operates a bilingual health library, and facilitates access to health research.

CECR collaborates across Irving Institute resources, as well as with other CUIMC centers and multi-sector stakeholders in New York City.

Services and Programs

CECR fosters community-engaged research through:

Leadership

Dodi D. Meyer, MD
- Co-Director; Professor of Pediatrics at the Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons (VP&S)
Ruth Masterson Creber, PhD, MSc, RN, FAAN, FAHA, FHFSA
- Co-Director; Mary Crawford Professor of Nursing at the Columbia University School of Nursing (CUSON)
Elizabeth Cohn, PhD, RN
- Community Engagement and Research Liaison; Vice President for Health Equity Research; Iris and Saul Katz Chair in Women’s Health Research at the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research
Rachel Shelton, ScD, MPH
- Associate Professor of Sociomedical Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health
Rafael A. Lantigua, MD
- Special Lecturer in the Department of Medicine
Olajide Williams, MD
- Professor and Chief of Staff of the Department of Neurology; Vice Dean for Community Health, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
Alejandra N. Aguirre, DrPH, MPH
- Assistant Vice Dean of Community Health; Assistant Professor of Community Health Initiatives in Medical Humanities and Ethics