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.

KU Work Group selected as one of 10 CDC REACH CORE grantees

The KU Work Group was recently selected for one of ten Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health (REACH) for Communities Organized to Respond and Evaluate (CORE) programs across the nation. Our project, “Mobilizing to Reduce  Health Disparities among Latinos in Wyandotte County Kansas,” will take a health equity approach to working to prevent diabetes and cardiovascular disease among the Latino community.

The REACH CORE is a new program of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to implement policy, systems, and environmental changes aimed at achieving positive outcomes in eliminating racial and ethnic health disparities in health priority areas.

KU Work Group selected for national study of childhood obesity prevention programs

The KU Work Group is a scientific partner in the National Study of Childhood Obesity Prevention Programs. Funded by several NIH Institutes, CDC, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation , this five-year study will examine what works in community-level efforts to prevent childhood obesity.
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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.