Introduction to Collaborative Community-Based Research

Speaker:

Jonathan N. Tobin, PhD, FACE, FAHA

President/CEO, Clinical Directors Network (CDN), Co-Director for Community-Engaged Research, The Rockefeller University Center for Clinical and Translational Science, Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Population Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University

Description:

Jonathan N. Tobin PhD, FACE, FAHA, President/CEO of Clinical Directors Network Inc. (CDN) and Co-Director of Community Engaged Research at The Rockefeller University Center for Clinical and Translational Science, teaches the fundamentals of getting started in collaborative community-based research to a live audience of family health center clinicians. A board certified epidemiologist, Dr. Tobin leads the audience through the key concepts and  importance of translational research, the basic epidemiological skills necessary for the development and understanding and interpretation of community-based research, and how epidemiological measures relate to clinical research and clinical practice. Topics covered include measures of morbidity and mortality (prevalence and incidence), causal inference, data collection methods, validity, reliability, and working with human subjects. He closes with a practical exercise that assists with conceptualizing and developing research aims and questions.

Sponsors:

Clinical and Translational Science Institute at Children’s National A Partnership with The George Washington University (CTSI), National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC), Clinical Directors Network (CDN), AAPCHO, Lutheran Medical Center, The Rockefeller University Center for Clinical and Translational Science

Wednesday, September 5th, 2012

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