S. Cashman Community-Based Learning Lecture

Click here to download a pdf copy of the lecture from November 6th, 2008.

Dr. Suzanne Cashman, Associate Professor and Director of Community Health
Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Massachusetts Medical School presented: “Using Community-Based Learning as a Tool to Address Disparities”

Dr. Suzanne Cashman has spent the 30 years of her professional career teaching graduate courses in public health, conducting community-based evaluation research, and developing partnerships aimed at helping communities improve their health status. Also faculty for the University’s Preventive Medicine Residency, Dr. Cashman has residency-related administrative/teaching responsibilities as well as leadership responsibilities for developing the Department’s community health agenda.

Dr. Cashman spent 10 years developing a community-oriented, primary care (COPC) focused, inter professional preventive medicine fellowship in Boston. This project used the preventive medicine training template to launch a multi-professional training program aimed at teaching participants skills that would help them work collaboratively with communities to improve health.
Currently, Dr. Cashman serves as a board and executive committee member of the Association for Prevention Teaching and Research; she is also on the board of Community Partners, Inc. and is a Senior Consultant for Community Campus Partnerships for Health.