Community Advisory Board (CAB)

A Community Advisory Board (CAB) including multi-ethnic women, health care providers, and community leaders will guide the research. CAB activities include:

  • Facilitating recruitment and retention of study participants
  • Assuring the community relevance of all aspects of the study
  • Identifying and assist with collaboration of community sites for study recruitment for this study and potential future work
  • Using community networks to facilitate recruitment, study conduct, and dissemination
  • Designing qualitative interviews
  • Participating in interpretation of the data
  • Disseminating results to community members, leaders, health care providers as appropriate
  • Contributing to dissemination activities as desired
  • Determining next steps for future research and dissemination of the findings to relevant communities 

                Vivian Asare

                MD
                Sleep medicine specialist

                Yale New Haven Health

                Claudine Constant

                Director of Beyond Jails Initiative

                Vera Institute of Justice

                Pamela Delerme

                CNM Certified Nurse Midwife

                Yale New Haven Hospital

                Candida Flores

                Executive Director / Member of Community Research and Implementation Core CIRA

                Family Life Education Inc. / Yale

                Danielle Green

                Research Associate

                Institute for Community Research

                Chavon Hamilton-Burgess

                Executive Director

                Hartford Health Initiative

                Dayeshell Muhammad

                EdD
                Director of Operations

                My People Clinical Services

                Naa Opoku

                Clinical Case Manager at Student Health and Wellness

                UConn Hartford

                Melissa Paul

                Director of College Partnerships + Reaching Forward

                Hartford Promise

                MaryAnn Perez-Brescia

                Clinical Instructor

                UConn School of Nursing

                Claudia Pina

                Clinical Case Manager at Student Health and Wellness

                UConn Waterbury

                Portrait of Heather Reynolds

                Heather Reynolds

                MSN, CNM, FACNM
                CAB Chairperson
                Lecturer in Nursing
                Minority Student Coordinator

                Yale University

                Dayna Snell

                Founder, Executive Director

                Queen Ann Nzinga Center Inc.