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CHRT welcomes eight new team members
Full time staff members CHRT has welcomed five new full time staff members. Tiffany R. Brent is CHRT’s business development director. She has extensive experience in the public health sector, working in the nonprofit health care community with and for various organizations, partnerships, and collaborations throughout her career. Prior to joining CHRT, Brent was executive director of the Voices of …
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Four new projects focus on opioid settlement investments, integration, disability care, and behavioral health
The Center for Health and Research Transformation (CHRT) has taken on several new projects over the last few months. Opioid settlement investments In the first project, the Center for Health and Research Transformation will provide Michigan recipients of opioid settlement funds with information about evidence-based, evidence-informed, and promising practices to address the opioid epidemic. CHRT will conduct a comprehensive environmental scan of …
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Ten years, 122 health policy fellows
In 2012, the Center for Health and Research Transformation (CHRT) launched its first-ever health policy fellowship. Since then, CHRT has welcomed ten fellowship classes of 10-15 fellows per year for a four-month program designed to teach them about health research, policy, and practice. Fellows bring expertise from their careers in policy, research, and nonprofit management. In the program, policymakers gain …
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CHRT moves to Arbor Lakes, joining many other University of Michigan centers and institutes
This spring, CHRT packed up and moved just a couple of miles down the street, still on Plymouth Road, to Arbor Lakes near the University of Michigan North Campus Research Complex (NCRC), a hub for translational research. At Arbor Lakes, CHRT is joining many other University of Michigan centers and institutes in a warm and welcoming complex of brick buildings …
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What is accessibility and why does it matter?
At CHRT, we value equity and information access for all. To further align our practice with these values, our communication team recently increased its expertise in accessibility through WebAIM training, a robust online course offered by Utah State University. Here’s just some of what we learned. Over 25 million people in the U.S. have a disability (visual, auditory, or cognitive) …
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Terrisca Des Jardins, CHRT’s executive director, joins the advisory board of the University of Michigan Griffith Leadership Center
Terrisca Des Jardins, CHRT’s executive director, has been tapped to join GLC’s Advisory Board. Des Jardins says she looks forward to strengthening collaborations and synergies between the two centers. CHRT and the University of Michigan Griffith Leadership Center (GLC) share many interests. While CHRT improves public health by providing health and health care research, data analyses, and backbone support to …
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CHRT Rebecca Copeland Internship
Holly Quivera Teague, MPH, a health behavior and health education graduate from the University of Michigan (UM) School of Public Health (spring ’22), is the 2022 CHRT Rebecca Copeland Memorial Intern. She will join CHRT’s health policy team on June 1st, supporting a number of projects that address social needs to improve health and reduce health inequities. “Our approach to health …
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Welcome to CHRT, Lisa Jeun and Poonam Yadav
At CHRT, we’re always looking for new ways to improve our team. One of the ways we do this is by continuing to add experts, which is why we’re so excited to welcome two new members of our team—Lisa Jeun and Poonam Yadav. Lisa Jeun is an accountant at CHRT, responsible for managing all accounts payable and accounts receivable. She …
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Robyn Rontal presents policy solutions to support caregivers of individuals aging with physical disabilities
Robyn Rontal, JD, MHSA, presented at the 2022 NARRTC Conference and Annual Meeting: Resourcefulness, Resilience and Responsiveness: Disability and Rehabilitation Research Following the COVID-19 Pandemic, Arlington, VA, April 27–28, 2022. Rontal’s presentation focused on ways policymakers and decision leaders can better support unpaid family caregivers of individuals who are aging with physical disabilities. The current landscape of caregiver policy at …
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Senior project manager Deana Smith to lead roundtable at American Society of Aging Conference
CHRT’s senior project manager Deana Smith will lead a roundtable discussion at the American Society of Aging Conference, New Orleans, April 11-14, 2022. This conference is the largest multidisciplinary conference on aging in the U.S. This year’s theme is “Advancing Economic Security.” Smith’s presentation, titled “Translating community-based work to payers for sustainability,” will describe early accomplishments in efforts to form …
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