Partners

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

• Inclusive Mobility Research Lab at the U-M School of Engineering

• Michigan Artificial Intelligence Lab, University of Michigan College of Engineering

• Social Worlds Research Group, University of Michigan School of Information