Center for Collaborative Community Research (C-CORE) | Partners

C-CORE leadership team

C-CORE is a partnership involving four cornerstones of children's health and education in Boston:

• Boston Children's Hospital (BCH)
• Boston Public Health Commission (BPHC)
• Boston Public Schools (BPS)
• Boston Conference of the Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers (MLCHC)

Leadership team members

• Deborah Allen, C-CORE Community Research Associate, Director of Bureau of Child, Adolescent & Family Health, BPHC
• Laura Bogart, C-CORE Associate Director and Research Team Co-Leader, Research Director, Division of General Pediatrics, BCH & Associate Professor of Pediatrics, HMS
• April Allen, C-CORE Center Manager, Division of General Pediatrics, BCH
• Jill Carter, C-Core Education Team Co-Leader, Executive Director of Health & Wellness, BPS
• Paula McNichols, C-CORE Dissemination Team Co-Leader, Board Member, MLCHC & Executive Director, Brookside Community Health Center
• Shari Nethersole, C-CORE Education Team Co-Leader and Co-Community Liaison, Medical Director for Community Health, BCH & Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, HMS
• John Riordan, C-CORE Co-Community Liaison, Director of Community Partnerships, BCH
• Snehal Shah, C-CORE Research Team Co-Leader, Director of Research and Evaluation, BPCH

Research team

• Laura Bogart, C-CORE Research Team Co-Leader
• Snehal Shah, C-CORE Research Team Co-Leader

Education team

• Jill Carter, C-CORE Education Team Co-Leader
• Shari Nethersole, C-CORE Education Team Co-Leader

Dissemination team

• Paula McNichols, C-CORE Dissemination Team Leader

C-CORE administration

• Diana Santiago, C-CORE Project Manager, Bureau of Child, Adolescent and Family Health, BPHC
• Dorothy McLeod, C-CORE Research Assistant, Division of General Pediatrics, BCH

Advisory Boards

C-CORE activities are guided by a Community-Academic Advisory Board (CAAB) of diverse representatives from Boston community organizations/agencies and local academic experts.

The CAAB:

• helps to identify community health research priorities and needs
• facilitates and maintains relationships between C-CORE staff and community partners
• develops, implements, and interprets results of research projects
• develops plans for dissemination of successful research;
• educates researchers on community issues
• integrates research findings into community programs
• provides ongoing feedback to staff on C-CORE activities

The Mayor’s Youth Council (MYC), which is composed of high school students representing every Boston neighborhood, advises C-CORE on youth health priorities. In addition, C-CORE works with other youth advisory boards throughout the City of Boston.

Community-Academic Advisory Board (CAAB) members

• Bette Bohlke-O'Gara, Executive Director, KeySteps Boston, Inc.
• Shari Davis, Director, Mayor's Youth Council (MYC)
• Sarah de Ferranti, Director, Preventive Cardiology Clinic, BCH & Assistant Professor, HMS
• Charles Deutsch, Deputy Director, Community Health Innovations & Research Program, Harvard Catalyst
• Luba Feigenberg, Associate Director of Research & Evaluation, Boston Children’s Hospital Neighborhood Partnerships (BCHNP) & Instructor in Psychiatry, HMS
• Jon Finkelstein, Vice Chair for Quality and Outcomes, Department of Medicine, BCH & Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Population Medicine, HMS
• Elmer Freeman, Executive Director, Center for Community Health Education Research and Service, Inc.
• Donna Friedman, Director, Center for Social Policy, UMass Boston McCormack Graduate School
• Steve Gortmaker, Professor & Director of Prevention Research Center, Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH)
• Daphne Griffin, Chief of Human Services, City of Boston
• Rev. Gregory Groover Sr., Vice President, Board of the Black Ministerial Alliance of Greater Boston
• Karen Hacker, Director, CBPR Consulting Program, Harvard Catalyst & Executive Director, Institute for Community Health
• Esther Lopez, Executive Director, Martha Eliot Health Center
• Carolyn Leung-Rubin, Assistant Professor, Tufts University School of Medicine
• Claudio Martinez, Executive Director, Hyde Square Task Force
• Jorge Martinez Sr., Executive Director, Project Right
• Margaret Noce, Executive Director, Jamaica Plain Coalition: Tree of Life/Arbol de Vida
• Voula Osganian, Director, Clinical Research Program, BCH & Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, HMS
• Judith Palfrey, Senior Associate in Medicine, BCH & Professor, HMS & HSPH
• Deborah Jean Parsons, Director of Policy, Parent/Professional Advocacy League
• Wanda Phipatanakul, Associate Physician in Allergy and Immunology, BCH & Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, HMS
• Joan Reede, Dean of Diversity and Community Partnership, HMS
• Sharon Scott-Chandler, Vice President, Action for Boston Community Development
• Nandini Sengupta, Clinical Director of Pediatrics, The Dimock Center
• Michael Silverstein, Associate Professor, Boston University
• Georgia Simpson May, Director, Office of Health Equity, Massachusetts Department of Public Health
• Lauren Smith, Medical Director, Massachusetts Department of Public Health
• Neil Sullivan, Executive Director, Boston Private Industry Council
• Roland Tang, Pediatrician, South Cove Community Health Center & Pediatric Physicians' Organization at Children's (PPOC)
• Sara Toomey, Instructor in Pediatrics, BCH & HMS
• Jane Tewksbury, Executive Director, Thrive in 5
• Karen Van Unen, Chief Operating Officer, Dotwell
• John Verre, Assistant Superintendent of Special Education, BPS
• Ralph Vetters, Medical Director, Sidney Borum Jr. Health Center
• Bill Walczak, President, Caritas Carney Hospital
• Elizabeth Woods, Associate Chief of Adolescent Medicine, CHB & Associate Professor of Pediatrics, HMS
• Abdirahman Yusuf, Executive Director, Somali Development Corporation