Our Mission
Promoting community health and development through collaborative research, teaching, and service.

 

Some KU Work Group highlights

The KU Work Group's Community Tool Box is the world's largest resource
(over 7,000 pages of content) for building capacity for community health and development.

Since 1975, the KU Work Group has worked with partners to address two key research questions:
How do people work together to bring about change in communities? And, under what conditions
are these changes associated with improvement in community health and development?

In 2004, our center was officially designated as the World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centre for Community Health and Development at the University of Kansas. The WHO Centre was redesignated for 2008-2012.

Dr. Fawcett facilitates community empowerment track at WHO global conference

Dr. Stephen Fawcett represented our World Health Organization Collaborating Centre at the 7th Global Conference on Health Promotion in Nairobi. For his video interview about the Conference, click here.

NIH grant to reduce health disparities

In August of 2008, the KU Work Group received a five-year grant to test a model to reduce health disparities in the Latino Community of Kansas City. To learn more about the Latino Health for All Partnership, click here. This grant was funded by the NIH/National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities.