Illinois
Representing:  Researchers

Darius Tandon is an Associate Professor and Associate Director, Center for Community Health, Institute for Public Health and Medicine, Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine. Trained as a community psychologist, he has a longstanding interest in the science and practice of incorporating community and patient perspectives into the research process and clinical care. He has been the lead investigator of several studies in the areas of adolescent mental health and perinatal depression that use a community-based participatory research (CBPR) framework, which explicitly includes community stakeholders as research collaborators. He is the Director of the Community Engagement Core of the Clinical and Translational Science Award at Johns Hopkins, where he has been the architect of several activities and programs to promote the practice of community-university partnerships throughout the research trajectory. He also serves as the Editor-in-Chief of Progress in Community Health Partnerships, the only peer-reviewed academic journal solely focused on CBPR.