Dr. Kathleen Szegda to present at virtual workshop "Building Community-Academic Research Partnerships"
January 13, 2022
Kathleen Szegda, PhD, MS, MPH, will be presenting along with Bettye Anderson Frederic, RN, MSN, and Sarah Goff, MD, PhD, at a virtual workshop hosted by UMass Medical School's Center for Clinical and Translational Science. This workshop, which takes place on January 13th and January 20th, offers attendees pragmatic approaches to building and sustaining mutually beneficial community-academic research partnerships that apply health equity and anti-racism lenses to the shared work.
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