Beyond the Manuscript: Community-Driven Conversations: Partnership Building through CHEC-Ins

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Beyond the Manuscript: Community-Driven Conversations: Partnership Building through CHEC-Ins Emma Tumilty, Joanne Glenn, Henrietta Barcelo, and Janine Ntihirageza Welcome to Progress in Community Health Partnerships'latest episode of our Beyond the Manuscript podcast. In each volume of the Journal, the editors select one article for our Beyond the Manuscript post-study interview with the authors. Beyond the Manuscript provides authors the opportunity to tell listeners what they would want to know about the project beyond what went into the final manuscript. In this episode of Beyond the Manuscript, Associate Editor, Emma Tumilty, interviews Joanne Glenn, Henrietta Barcelo, and Janine Ntihirageza, authors of "Community Driven Conversations: Partnership Building through CHEC-Ins." The transcript has been edited for clarity and accuracy. Your browser does not support the audio tag. Beyond the Manuscript. Click to hear audio Emma Tumilty: Welcome, everyone, to this episode of Beyond the Manuscriptpodcast for the journal Progress in Community Health Partnerships. Today, we're really excited to have some of the authors of a manuscript called "Community Driven Conversations: Partnership Building through CHEC-Ins." Today, with me, I have Janine Ntihirageza, Henrietta Barcelo, and Joanne Glenn, who I will let introduce themselves hopefully shortly. My name's Doctor Emma Tumilty. I'm an assistant professor in the Department of Bioethics and Health Humanities at the University of Texas medical branch, and an associate editor for the Journal of Progress in Community Health Partnerships. Maybe if we start off with introductions, can we maybe go to Miss Joanne Glenn first? Joanne Glenn: Well, good morning. It's so fabulous to be on this call today. I'm Joanne Glenn. I am an RN MBA, and those initials—ABD—All But Dissertation—of 47 years. Founder of the W.O.T. Foundation—Women on Top of their game—that guide breast cancer survivors through celebration of life. Emma Tumilty: Fantastic. Thank you. And Janine Ntihirageza. Janine Ntihirageza: Thank you so much, Emma. It is an honor for me to be invited to this conversation about CHECIns—one of the pillars of the Chicago CHEC, which is the Cancer Health Equity Collaborative, an organization that has become incredibly impactful here in Chicago. My name is Janine Ntihirageza. I'm a professor at Northeastern Illinois University here in Chicago, and I joined the collaborative about five years ago as a member of the outreach core, and since then, it's been wonderful to work with everybody—especially my colleagues here from the community—our community steering committee. So, I look forward to the conversation. Emma Tumilty: Thank you. And last, but certainly not least, Henrietta Barcelo, could you also introduce yourself? Henrietta Barcelo: Thank you very much. I'm Henrietta Barcelo. I'm an educator. I started my career as a health educator and I have over 25—or actually, now, 30 years of experience. I started off in health care, and rose [End Page 109]into health care marketing, and then, when back into post-secondary education as well, and then, finally, into high-school education for Health Sciences Career Academy at Institute for the Instituto del Progreso Latino in Chicago. I felt that the impact for community was very important. I needed to start at the grassroots level. So, I haven't yet gotten into the elementary school level, but I'm aiming to. Emma Tumilty: You're getting there. Henrietta Barcelo: Thank you. Emma Tumilty: Wonderful. So, I wonder if, for our listeners, you could start off telling us a little bit about that community steering committee and how it brought about the CHEC-Ins? Janine Ntihirageza: Okay. Maybe we could say something about Chicago CHEC so that we're really linking to the community work that we're trying to do. So, it is a National Cancer Institute partnership, led by Northwestern University, the University of Illinois at Chicago, and in Northeastern Illinois University, also in Chicago. So, in short, it's Chicago CHEC. And Chicago CHEC's mission is to advance cancer health equity through meaningful scientific discovery, education, training, and...