MONTHLY SEMINAR SERIES
September 23, 2024 | 3:00 – 4:00 PM | Hybrid Event
Achieving health equity necessitates the active collaboration of researchers with patient and community partners. This seminar focuses on the importance of incorporating the voices and lived experiences of marginalized and underserved communities into the research process to effectively address health disparities. Seminar participants will learn how our immersive community-based participatory research (CBPR) approach, Partnership Academy, can facilitate the co-production of impactful, patient-centered solutions that improve health outcomes for all.
Case study available here: Partnership Academy Case Study
Speaker: Karen L. Fortuna, PhD, LICSW
Dr. Karen Fortuna is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Dartmouth and Co-Founder of the Collaborative Design for Recovery and Health. She uses community-based research to develop tools and training for people with disabilities, focusing on vulnerable groups like older adults, caregivers, and those with behavioral health challenges.
She has authored over 120 peer-reviewed publications and delivered 200+ invited presentations at national and international forums. Her work, featured in Forbes and Fox Business, is funded by PCORI, NIMH, and others. Dr. Fortuna pioneered “digital peer support,” where people with disabilities provide evidence-based services through technology.
She serves on the National Academies’ Standing Committee on Primary Care and Whole Health and has received numerous awards, including the Japanese Research Proposal of the Year and the Alvin R. Tarlov & John E. Ware Jr. Award in Patient Reported Outcomes.