This webinar series is lead by Nataria Joseph, PhD. If you are interested in having your work featured at one of these sessions, please reach out to info@thesbsm.org.
Upcoming Webinar:
Title: Project SOAR (Speaking Our African American Realities): A Community-Academic Partnership to Illuminate and Elevate the Experience of Black Women with Breast Cancer
Date/Time: February 4th, 2026, 12:00pm - 1:00pm EST
Description: Project SOAR is a trailblazing partnership of 7 years and counting between Dr. Annette Stanton, distinguished psychology professor at UCLA, and Rev. Dr. Tammie Denyse, co-founder and president of Carrie's TOUCH. With a team of other great researchers and community partners working alongside them, they have made scientific discoveries and positively impacted lives of Black women coping with breast cancer. They prioritize the voices of those women when designing and executing their research. For example, they used culturally-driven Gatherings instead of traditional focus groups in phases of their work. Their discoveries include, but are not limited to, in-depth exploration of the Strong Black Woman construct within this illness context, identification of provider variables that are barriers to patient-centered care for this population, and the nuanced role of spirituality for this population. Their work has been funded by California Breast Cancer Research Program and the Breast Cancer Research Foundation. In this webinar, they will share their research findings, insights into successful academic-community partnerships, and future goals for their work. There will be time for questions and direct engagement with the speakers.
Past Webinar:
Title: Community-Partnered Research Strategies and Findings from a Community Partnership to Understand Cardiometabolic Health in the American Indian Blackfeet Community
Date/Time: October 20th, 2025, 12:00pm - 1:00pm EST
Description: Every day scholars within the SBSM community discover important biopsychosocial knowledge with implications for communities and the public in general. The impactful scholarship of our speakers, Drs. Neha John-Henderson and Annie Ginty, and their community partner and collaborator Betty Henderson-Matthews, is a clear example of how engaging communities as equal partners in our research is one way to enhance and ensure the public health impact of our work. Using their NIH/NHLBI/NIMHD-funded work with the American Indian Blackfeet community in Montana as an example, Drs. John-Henderson and Ginty will share insights into how we can incorporate community-based participatory research (CBPR) into the biopsychosocial research that we do as well discuss strategies for combating challenges. With their community partners, Drs. John-Henderson and Ginty examine social connectedness and trauma exposures and implications for cardiometabolic and mental health for members of the Blackfeet community. They will share some results of this work with us as well. There will be time for questions about CBPR and direct engagement with the speakers at the end.
