Hear a conversation between members of a longstanding partnership on the interplay of research, practice and policy in their work focused on supporting children, families and staff in therapeutic care settings. A panel of research and practice-side partners from the Residential Child Care Project and the Waterford Country School will recount how their partnership began, their shared goals, […]

Part of the BCTR's Talks at Twelve series. Context matters. Our physical and social affordances shape our brains and behaviors to produce individual brain differences that may also lead to risk and resilience for health issues. Understanding our brains and the way that our resources and choices impact them is therefore an essential part of […]

Hear a conversation between members of a longstanding partnership on the interplay of research, practice, and policy in their work together. A panel of research and practice-side partners from ACT for Youth and the New York State Department of Health's Bureau of Perinatal, Reproductive and Sexual Health will recount how their partnership began, successes and […]

Part of the BCTR's Talks at Twelve series. Tahsara Leak is an assistant professor in the Division of Nutritional Sciences at Cornell University and the Division of General Internal Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine. Leak is also co-director of the Action Research Collaborative, which is part of the BCTR. Leak designs culturally relevant interventions, in […]

Part of the BCTR's Talks at Twelve Series. Health equity is a widely touted but vexingly elusive goal. A significant body of academic research addresses research questions related to health equity, but the gap between research outputs and concrete social change is often yawning. How can academic research and robust public engagement be integrated to […]