Becoming a Partner and Collaborator in the Center for Disability Health and Wellness
Reasons to consider becoming a collaborator with the CDHW:
- Build community.
- Increase networking.
- Benefit from collaborator partnerships and relationships with community agencies and others.
- Provide sustainable structure and ongoing outlets for dissemination and knowledge translation activities, including website, webinars, presentations, etc.
- Provide procedures and structure to improve and provide structures to training.
- Collate and leverage resources.
Community Partners
- Ari Houser, AARP Public Policy Institute*
- Alex Gossage, Ann Arbor Center for Independent Living*
- Jenny Sladen, The ARC National*
- The ARC Wayne
- Michigan Paralyzed Veterans of America*
- Jillian Salmon, Advancing States: National Association of States United for Aging & Disability*
- Sara A. Link, No Wrong Door Virginia*
- Cheryl Vines, M.S, Paralyzed Veterans of America*
- Lisa Franklin, Warriors on Wheels of Greater Detroit*
*Representative, IDEAL RRTC Advisory Panel
Academic Department and Program Partners
- Department of Family Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School, including their MDisability program
- Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PM&R), University of Michigan Medical School, including their the Program for Research on Women’s Health and Disability (PROWHD) and U-M Spinal Cord Injury System,
- Center for Healthcare Research and Transformation (CHRT)
- Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) at the University of Michigan
- Institute for Health Care Policy and Innovation (IHPI) at the University of Michigan
Research Partners
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Inclusive Mobility Research Lab at the U-M School of Engineering
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Michigan Artificial Intelligence Lab, University of Michigan College of Engineering
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Social Worlds Research Group, University of Michigan School of Information