Four DUSON faculty members along with teams of community partners, PhD students and staff focused on improving community health recently attended the Engaged Researcher: Co-Designing with Patients and the Community event hosted by the Duke Clinical Research Institute. The purpose of the event was to “ignite partnerships between researchers, patients, and community members to make clinical research better together.” The teams, led by Donna Biederman, Kirsten Corazinni, Rosa Gonzalez-Guarda and Eleanor McConnell, spent the afternoon learning how to identify and overcome challenges faced when developing solutions, programs, and new research in the focused areas of housing insecure and homeless individuals, adverse childhood experiences and resilience, and improving wellbeing among people living with dementia through development of dementia-inclusive communities.