Tour Date and Time: Thursday, June 12, 2025 from 8:00AM to 4:30PM ET
Every day, over 2,000 members of our community come to Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist as patients or participants in research. How many of their stories do you know? Are you familiar with the neighborhoods where they live? Do you know the obstacles they encounter in accessing our medical center? If you are a clinician, what happens to carefully crafted treatment plans after patients leave the hospital? If you are a researcher, would deeper appreciation of the surrounding community help you more effectively engage community members in research?
The goal of the Wake Forest CTSI Community and Stakeholder Engagement Community Tour is to build bridges between the academic medical center and the surrounding community, with a focus on the African American and Hispanic communities which have been historically marginalized.
The Community Tour is designed to help faculty, research staff and administrators gain an expanded understanding of:
- Health gaps within the local community
- Critical social determinants of health, e.g., access to care, housing, transportation, education, food environment, employment, and poverty
- Resources and protective factors that promote community resilience
- History of healthcare and research in the local community
Open to all faculty, research staff and administrators. Limited to 12 participants.
Agenda:
- Assemble at Bailey Power Plant for welcome, breakfast and documentary viewing/discussion
- Depart on shuttle van
- Lunch with presentation
- Continue tour
- Return to Bailey Power Plant for concluding discussion
Deadline to apply is May 16, 2025
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