2020 Community Campus Partnership Conference (CCPC) to Address Health Disparities

Friday, September 25, 2020, 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM CST, UAMS


The Community Campus Partnership Conference will provide opportunities for engaging policymakers, key leaders, and other relevant decision-makers in planning for translation and sustaining effective interventions and approaches, representing a diverse group of partners committed to addressing health disparities. Translation and dissemination of research findings and effective interventions are critical to improving health outcomes. Practitioners, health decision-makers, and policy leaders must be engaged to achieve these broader-scale changes.

1. Promote strategies that enhance the development and sustainability of community-campus partnerships in an effort to eliminate health disparities in Arkansas.
2. Facilitate an inclusive dialogue with patients, caregivers, providers, faith leaders, researchers and other stakeholders to set and address research priorities to support the health and well-being of persons living in rural communities.
3. Build the capacity of patients, caregivers, providers and faith leaders, researchers and other stakeholders to conduct engaged research/PCOR and facilitate partnerships

AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (1.75 hours), ACPE - Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (1.75 hours), ANCC - American Nurses Credentialing Center (1.75 hours), Non-Physician AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (1.75 hours)

In support of improving patient care, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.