Becoming a Partner and Collaborator in the Center for Disability Health and Wellness
Reasons to consider becoming a collaborator with the U-M 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
Jump to our:
Community Partners
- AARP Public Policy Institute
- Ann Arbor Center for Independent Living
- The ARC
- The ARC Wayne
- Michigan Paralyzed Veterans of America
- Advancing States: National Association of States United for Aging & Disability
- No Wrong Door Virginia
- Paralyzed Veterans of America
- Warriors on Wheels of Greater Detroit
- Detroit Disability Power
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 (Some aspects of this site require U-M Level 1 access)
- Institute for Health Care Policy and Innovation (IHPI) at the University of Michigan
- UMAISE at the University of Michigan
- Medical Students for Disability Health & Advocacy (MSDHA) is a student organization that aims to promote disability health initiatives and unite students with disabilities and chronic illnesses as well as allies at the University of Michigan Medical School.
- MedLaunch is a community of undergraduate students at the University of Michigan passionate about healthcare and biomedical innovation. Students of different backgrounds from Engineering, LSA, STAMPS, the School of Music, and many more participate in a year-long Biodesign Challenge to develop assistive technologies for local community partners with disabilities, in an effort to solve problems commonly faced by these individuals. We work closely with our community partner from needs-finding to product ideation to final development in order to ensure a cost-effective solution.
Research Partners
- Accessibility Lab, University of Michigan College of Engineering
- 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