Every year the (NEOBHC) hosts an annual conference focused on the state of 'X' in the African American community. The NEOBHC focused on the state of reparations in the African American community for its 7th annual conference. “Reparation” is defined by the Oxford dictionary as “the marking of amends for a wrong one has done, by paying money to or otherwise helping those who have been wronged”. California was the first state to publicly acknowledge the complexities of reparations, with the California Legislative Black Caucus introducing a in January 2024. Mary T. Bassett, MD, Director of Harvard’s FXB Center for Health and Human Rights and leading public health expert, believes that. In 2023, William A. Darity, Jr., PhD, Samuel DuBois Cooke Professor of Public Policy, African and African American Studies, and Economics at Duke University, suggested that the U.S. government should pay $14 trillion in reparations to Black Americans. Read more about Dr. Darity’s research on Black reparations in.
The CTSC of Northern Ohio was approached by Yvonka Hall, MPA, Executive Director of the NEOBHC, inaugural CTSC Community Advisory Board member, Community Engaged Research Network member, and CTSC Voucher awardee, to discuss possibilities for Continuing Legal Education (CLE) and Continuing Medical Education (CME) credits for attendees. Working with the and MetroHealth’s, the CTSC connected the NEOBHC with resources to ensure that attorneys and medical professionals could access continuing education credits for attending the conference that had interdisciplinary themes. The CTSC also co-developed a conference evaluation, using , to capture attendee feedback.
The, created by Washing University in St. Louis, identifies 30 benefits of clinical and translational research in four domains: clinical, community, economic, and policy. Topics discussed at the conference intersected with all of those benefits—creating fertile ground for research, dissemination, and implementation with urgency.
National speakers from organizations and institutions, including: the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Urban Institute Office of Race and Equity Research. Association of American Medical Colleges Center for Health Justice, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Center for Health Equity Research, University of Pennsylvania Opportunity for Health Lab, and Harvard Medical School discussed research and recommendations.
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to view the conference, in full, on the NEOBHC’s YouTube channel.
Learn more about Ms. Hall’s perspectives and experience with community engaged research on the CTSC of Northern Ohio’s.
