This presentation will provide participants with a comprehensive overview of how to utilize a Community Advisory Board (CAB) to foster connection and craft behavioral health strategies and solutions across local, regional, and state levels. Participants will learn how the University of Texas at Tyler School of Medicine is utilizing their CAB as an opportunity to engage FQHC’s, rural health clinics, area nonprofits, and diverse community leaders in a collaborative partnership designed to understand and address health equity gaps. The goal of this shared effort is to co-construct community-aligned transformational service projects, programs, and research to reduce disparities in health outcomes within Regions 4N/5. Participants will also be introduced to a community engagement model that incorporates an intersectional focus on social identity - Intersectional Health Equity Model (Morales, 2023). This model examines the relationship between social identity and social determinants of health to understand how these variables intersect and impact health outcomes and, additionally can serve as a resource to craft innovative solutions. This session will apply the model to CAB’s regional data assessment project on behavioral health as an example of how community collaborations represent the new social contract in academic medicine (Savage et al., 2023).
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Speakers:
Carolyn Morales
Associate Dean, Belonging & Community Engagement
UT Tyler School of Medicine
Brigham Willis
Founding Dean
School of Medicine, The University of Texas