Our History
Since its founding in 2007 at the Yale School of Public Health, the Community Alliance for Research and Engagement (CARE) has worked to identify solutions to health challenges such as diabetes, asthma, and heart and lung diseases through community-based research and projects focusing on social, environmental, and behavioral risk factors.
In the fall of 2016, CARE began a partnership with Southern Connecticut State University (SCSU) to enhance its ongoing efforts to improve the health of residents in New Haven’s lowest-income neighborhoods.
“Southern’s students and faculty bring CARE opportunities in community-based research, programs, and policy change, leading to further improvement in the health of New Haven residents!”
–– Dr. Sandra Bulmer, Dean of the College of Health & Human Services
Our Perspective
Two key elements distinguish CARE’s mission as it develops relationships in the Yale and Southern communities, as well as the larger New Haven and Connecticut communities:
The drive to better serve students and;
The commitment to social justice.
These are simultaneously familiar and fresh perspectives from which CARE can refine our focus on improving health in the New Haven community. CARE continues to leverage the potential of student, faculty, and staff power, combined with the legacy of work initiated over the past decade at the Yale School of Public Health, in a new way that will hopefully have a lasting impact for another decade to come.