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Inclusive partnership
Research and Innovation
National leaders in practice-based, community participatory, and practice redesign and improvement research.
Jodi Holtrop, PhD, MCHES
Vice Chair for Research
Welcome to the Department of Family Medicine - Research & Innovation.
Our research mission is simple: To improve community health and well-being through high-quality research in patient-centered family medicine using holistic and integrative models of health.
We are innovators and experts in the discovery and dissemination of new knowledge through translational and practice-based research.
We serve as the primary resource for family medicine practices, by providing knowledge, health information technology and practice transformation tools and guidance to satisfy the Quadruple Aim of improving the health of populations, enhancing the experience of care for individuals, reducing the per capita cost of health care, and attaining joy in work.
We continuously push to expand the reach of our practice-based research networks to more effectively support practices, share information, develop and sustain a dynamic learning community and bring value to our stakeholders by answering their questions.
We are here for you, your community, and your health.
RESEARCH HIGHLIGHT
Health Equity Research
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Use of appropriate theoretical models and frameworks, such as a public health critical race praxis
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A proactive, comprehensive, and continuous appraisal of how equity may disproportionately affect oppressed people
New DFM Giving Back For Health Project!
DFM To Collect Support Items For Aurora Refugee Welcome Center
Robert | Family Medicine Jan 14, 2020
Giving Back for Health, an initiative of the Diversity & Health Equity Program, is back with a new opportunity to lend support in our community. 
The Aurora Public Schools (APS) Welcome Center offers a variety of services to students, families, and schools in order to achieve their mission of assisting APS refugee and immigrant families in becoming more familiar with and accustomed to the Aurora Public Schools System.
The work the APS Welcome Center addresses two of the social determinants of health by providing a support structure to refugee and immigrant families, and by helping those families with resources around education to ensure their students are successful learners.
We are collecting cash/checks (made out to Aurora Public Schools), #2 pencils, wide rule paper, crayons, markers, folders with pockets, new/unopened hygiene products, large/small backpacks (no logo), and more!
Please contact Tessa Carlson for a complete list of needed items.
We will be collecting donations through March 31, 2020. The collection box is located in the DFM reception area across from Kasie Holcomb’s desk on the third floor of Administration Office Building 1 on the Anschutz Medical Campus.
Contact:
Jodi Holtrop, PhD, MCHES
Vice Chair for Research
jodi.holtrop@cuanschutz.edu
Carlee Kreisel, MPH
Research Services Specialist
carlee.kreisel@cuanschutz.edu
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