CRHESI Objectives
- Provide support for Western University professors, students and community partners to conduct innovative research related to health equity and social inclusion that optimizes participation of, and outcomes for, people who experience vulnerability or marginalization.
- Facilitate a research context that optimizes engagement with community partners and individuals with lived experience who both participate in and utilize research related to health equity and social inclusion.
- Enhance the mobilization and utilization of research related to health equity and social inclusion for evidence-based decision making in health and public policy, as well as service delivery.
- Create relationships of trust between and among funders, policy makers, service providers, service users, individuals with lived experience and researchers to address emergent needs in our community related to health equity and social inclusion, creating pathways for effecting positive, evidence-informed change in our communities.
- Enhance the profile of Western University faculty, students, and community partners as leaders in research related to health equity and social inclusion in Ontario and Canada, which will not only contribute to the university’s social responsibility mandate, but will also optimize outcomes on obtaining research funding.
CRHESI PEOPLE
CRHESI Co-Directors and Governance
CRHESI Staff
Arun Jentrick
Knowledge Mobilization Coordinator
jarun@uwo.ca
Eleanor Gebrou
Research and Evaluation Manager
egebrou@uwo.ca
Kelly L. Barnes
Research and Evaluation Manager
kbarne2@uwo.ca
CRHESI Affiliates
CRHESI Affiliates are community members and/or organizational representatives, academic researchers, and trainees or students who have current or previous involvement in CRHESI-related community or academic research and/or knowledge mobilization. Affiliates actively support the mission of CRHESI through their academic and/or community research and/or knowledge mobilization activities.
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CRHESI Student Collective
The Knowledge Mobilization for Health Equity Student Collective of CRHESI is a community of students from related disciplines and faculties of Western University (and associated universities at the discretion of CRHESI co-Directors) whose mission is to collaborate, identify, research, understand and address the problems that prevent fair access to health and belonging for all people. The composition of the Collective changes depending on course placement needs and opportunities, student volunteers and the participation of fellows and bursary award winners.
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CRHESI Approach and Research Principles
Research Principles
Questions of health equity and social inclusion cut across the work of many faculties and community-service organizations within Western University and the London not-for-profit sector respectively. CRHESI strives to provide a forum for research-enabled, synergistic and catalytic change for London and surrounding areas.
CRHESI’s research principles have emerged through considerable consultation with members of our community-based and academic partners.
Thematic Areas
CRHESI seeks to address five thematic areas. Our primary model for research is lead by teams of researchers (including community partners, academic researchers and students) who work in these areas, and identify cross-cutting themes affecting their populations. CRHESI also leads Centre-level research projects or initiatives. Included here are examples of the types of questions that may be posed by researchers affiliated with CRHESI.
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CRHESI Involvement
CRHESI is involved in research projects at one of three levels. This organizing logic assists CRHESI members, leads and the Executive Committee in deciding how involved CRHESI is in specific projects. A fundamental assumption is that the topic of the project is aligned in terms of CRHESI content areas and principles.
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CRHESI History
The Center for Research Health Equity and Social Inclusion (CRHESI) is a university and community partnership that was formally established in November 2015. However, our process really began two years earlier. During this formative period, researchers from across Western came together with leaders in the community to articulate hopes and dreams for a different kind of research center. Read more