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Poster Session: 2018 Community Engagement and Research Symposium
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2018-03-09Keywords
UMass Center for Clinical and Translational ScienceCommunity Engagement and Research Symposium
community-engaged research
posters
Civic and Community Engagement
Community-Based Research
Community Health and Preventive Medicine
Public Health
Translational Medical Research
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Abstracts of posters presented at the 7th annual Community Engagement and Research Symposium, held Friday, March 9, 2018, at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA. Some presenters have made the full text of their posters available; these posters can be viewed in the symposium's Poster Archive.DOI
10.13028/57rr-sd15Permanent Link to this Item
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