Meharry-Vanderbilt Alliance

The Meharry-Vanderbilt Alliance is a bridge between two dynamic academic medical centers, each of whom brings rich histories and strengths to this unique collaboration. The Alliance is established as a means for both institutions to grow stronger and more diverse, and to increase capacity in fulfilling each institution’s own mission. The Alliance supports and facilitates joint programs in research, teaching, clinical care and community service with a special focus on promoting diversity within each institution, and in reducing health disparities through research, education and more effective patient care.

 

The CERC Mini Grant Review Committee awarded two mini grants (see descriptions below).  Both of these projects offer the potential of future research projects and on-going academic-community research partnerships.

 

Title:  Health Impact Assessment for Nashville’s Northeast Corridor

Grant Amount: $1,843.16

Community Partner: Nashville Area Metropolitan Planning Organization

Academic Partners: Susan Saegert PhD, Director VU Center for Community Studies, CCS Grad Students

Description:  Stimulate community input in the future transit-oriented development of the Northeast Corridor, with specific focus on the health impact this development may have on the community in 15 years. The data gathered from community members in the Northeast Corridor (meaning those in the communities of Madison, Hendersonville, and Gallatin) from focus groups and surveys will inform the completion of a Health Impact Assessment. Most pertinent to this study are the discovery of variables which inhibit or encourage healthy community behaviors. For more information about Health Impact Assessments: http://www.healthimpactproject.org/new?id=0002 .

 

Title:  Edgehill Pharmacy Needs Assessment

Grant Amount:  $1,995.00

Community Partners:  Organize Neighbors of Edgehill (ONE), Nursing Education Partnership for Community Health Improvement (NEPCHi)

Academic Partners: Tom Cook PhD, MSN, VU School of Nursing, Condit Steil PharmD, Belmont

Description:  Assess health-related and medication needs of Edgehill residents, with an emphasis on public housing residents. The information gathered from the assessment would form the basis of determining pharmacy needs of the community including information on medication usage and access.
 

Many thanks to the Mini Grant Review Committee (Russell Rothman, Velma Murry, Jim Lawson, Barb Clinton, Darlene Jenkins, Tene’ Franklin and Dewayne Holman) for their careful  assessment of all the proposals.  We anticipate offering another round of Mini Grants in the Fall of 2010.

 

MVSA Newsletter

 

Here is the latest MVSA Newsletter.

Inside this Issue:
- Race, Research and You

- Student Editorials

- Money-Driven Medicine

- Habitat for Humanity

- MVSA Student Survey

- A Focus on Students