The Center for Patient Partnerships
Collaborate
The Center for Patient Partnerships collaborates with health care researchers to promote consumer-centered research and practice. The Center also disseminates knowledge about patient-centered care models and practices across the nation.
The Center has collaborated with:
- The American Cancer Society
- The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society
- Dane County Latino Health Council
- Freedom, Inc. Hmong Resource Center
- The Health Advocacy Master's Program at Sarah Lawrence College
- The University of Wisconsin's Consumer Law Litigation Clinic
- The Center for Health Systems Research and Analysis
- The Department of Clinical Psychology
- The University of Wisconsin Schools of Medicine and Public Health, Nursing and Pharmacy.
In early 2006, the Center received a grant from the Madison affiliate of the Susan G. Komen Foundation to develop and pilot a training program for breast cancer survivors. The first training program of its kind, the Komen Advocates Training Program will equip survivors with knowledge and skills to become effective advocates. The project will create a reproducible module for training peer advocates across the country.
In 2005-2006, the Center for Patient Partnerships reached out to local Latino and Hmong communities. Through a project funded by the American Cancer Society, the Center worked with Madison's Latino Health Council and Freedom, Inc. Hmong Resource Center to identify significant health care barriers for Latino and Hmong consumers. Print and radio media in Spanish and Hmong focused on key messages to help empower consumers within these communities. Building on that project, the Center received a grant from the Evjue Foundation to develop a Hmong-language video featuring Hmong community members talking about advocating for their own health care.
The Center also consulted with the University of Wisconsin's Center for Health Systems Research and Analysis (CHSRA) to provide culturally appropriate content for a Spanish language website on breast cancer. Staff also co-authored a chapter in the forthcoming premiere textbook on patient advocacy. The Center is currently joining forces with Sarah Lawrence College to produce the first collection of readings on patient advocacy.
Want to Help?
As the Center for Patient Partnerships grows, you can help educate, advocate and innovate to make health systems more consumer-centered. Though we do not charge for our advocacy services, we welcome contributions to the Center. Please join the mission by contributing!
