Innovative Partnerships
Community Outreach and Research Translation Core
We are working to improve health and well being in the Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana, and Idaho (WWAMI)
region through a partnership of 3 unique communities within the ITHS:
- Group Health (GH), a statewide integrated group practice delivery system in Washington.
- American Indian and Alaska Native communities and organizations.
- Primary care clinical and teaching practices in the WWAMI states.
These 3 Pacific Northwest populations offer extraordinary diversity across race/ethnicity, culture, rural/urban location, geography, health service delivery and financing systems, and the health status of their members.
CORT activities will include:
- Learning about the research topics of most interest to the
communities.
- Learning about the research, training, and analytic needs of the
communities and responding to those needs.
- Developing pilot practice/community-based research networks
within the American Indian and Alaska Native communities and the
primary care clinical and teaching practices in the WWAMI states..
- Creating clinically- and culturally-appropriate shared resources and tools
for research that is relevant to the partner communities.
- Building and leveraging partnerships for funding between
ITHS and practice/community-based researchers.
- Setting up diverse community health advisory boards to help shape and
direct the work of the CORT.
Contacts:
Leah Tuzzio, MPH
Project Director
(206) 287-2109
Co-Directors
Eric B. Larson, MD MPH
Group Health Center for Health Studies
Dedra S. Buchwald, MD
American Indian and Alaska Native Communities
Laura-Mae Baldwin, MD MPH
WWAMI Regional Network