Science Café Speaker Series

2019 Science Café

Thursday, May 23, 2019, 6-8 p.m.
Thursday, July 25, 2019, 6-8 p.m.
Thursday, Sep. 26, 2019, 6-8 p.m.
Thursday, Dec. 5, 2019, 6-8 p.m.

The CTSC Community Engagement Program developed the Science Café speaker series to provide a casual, safe space for lay audiences to have conversations with scientists. The Science Café is aimed at engaging the public in a discussion about research, current events, and other aspects of science that have current public interest (e.g., the opioid addiction crisis and how to manage it, the spread and dangers of the Zika virus, etc.).

Racial Healing Circles

2019 Racial Healing Circles

Thursday, Apr. 18, 2019, 6–9 p.m.

Funded by the UC Davis Health Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion. this collaborative effort is organized by the UC Davis Clinical and Translational Science Center and Center for Reducing Health Disparities. The Racial Healing Circles are adopted and modeled after the Attitudinal Healing Connection, an Oakland-based organization, that is devoted to building strong, healthy communities.

For Academic Researchers

For Community Organizations and Agencies

Materials provided by the UC San Francisco Clinical and Translational Science Institute

For Community Clinicians

Materials provided by the UC San Francisco Clinical and Translational Science Institute

Additional Resources

Linda Ziegahn, Lucinda Nevarez, Thelma Hurd, Jill Evans, Yvonne Joosten, Jill Dumbauld, Milton “Mickey” Eder. (2018) An exploratory study of Clinical and Translational Science Award community-engaged research training programs. Journal of Clinical and Translational Science; 2(2), pp. 110–114.
CTSA Consortium Community Engagement Key Function Committee Task Force on the Principles of Community Engagement. (2011). Principles of community engagement (2nd ed.). (NIH Publication No. 11-7782)
Aguilar-Gaxiola, S., Ahmed, S., Franco, Z., Kissack, A., Gabriel, D., Hurd, T., … Wallerstein N. (2014). Towards a unified taxonomy of health indicators: Academic health centers and communities working together to improve population health. Academic Medicine, 89(4), 564-572. DOI: 10.1097/ACM.0000000000000198
Cottler, L., McCloskey, D.J., Aguilar-Gaxiola, A., Bennett, N.M., Strelnick, H., Dwyer-White, M., Collyar, D.E., Ajinkya, S., Seifer, S.D., O’Leary, C.C., Striley, C.W., and Evanoff, B. Community Needs, Concerns, and Perceptions About Health Research: Findings From the Clinical and Translational Science Award Sentinel Network. American Journal of Public Health, 103(9), 1685-1692. DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2012.300941
Ziegahn, L., Ibrahim, S., Al-Ansari, B., Mahmood, M., Tawffeq, R., Mughir, M., … Xiong, G. (2013). The mental and physical health of recent Iraqi Refugees in Sacramento, California (PDF). Sacramento, CA: UC Davis Clinical and Translational Science Center Community Engagement Program, & Center for Reducing Health Disparities.
Michener, L., Cook, J., Ahmed, S. M., Yonas, M. A., Coyne-Beasley, T., & Aguilar-Gaxiola, S. (2012). Aligning the goals of community-engaged research: Why and how academic health centers can successfully engage with communities to improve health. Academic Medicine, 87(3), 285-291. DOI: 10.1097/ACM.0b013e3182441680
Ziegahn L., Styne D., Askia J., Roberts T., Lewis E. T., & Edwards W. (2013). Strategies to prevent and reduce diabetes and obesity in Sacramento, California: The African American Leadership Coalition and University of California, Davis. Preventing Chronic Disease, 10(11), [130074]. DOI: 10.5888/pcd10.130074