“Can anything good come from…” Flint? (Paraphrase John 1:46)
​The Board of Directors, Community Based Organizations Partners (CBOP), proudly announces the promotion of Dr. Kent D. Key, Executive Director of CBOP. Dr Key received his tenure effective July 1, 2025.
Dr. Key is the Associate Chair for Community Partnered Institutional Administration at the Charles Steward Mott Department of Public Health at Michigan State University College of Human Medicine. With this promotion, Dr. Key, a Health Disparities Researcher and has worked at the Michigan State University College of Human Medicine since 2016. Prior to that, he worked at the Michigan Institute for Clinical and Health Research (MICHR) for several years while he worked to complete his doctoral degree in Public Health. Additionally, in his spare time, Dr. Key worked very closely with the late Dr. E Hill De Loney as her Deputy Director for more than 20 years, beginning as an Americorps Fellow. Upon the passing of Dr. De Loney, Dr. Key stepped into the role of Interim Executive Director of CBOP, but the Board of Directors decided his work merited him permanently becoming the Executive Director.
​He was a member of the original feasibility and search committee for the development of the Michigan State University, College of Human Medicine, which was a community effort. The CS Mott Foundation has funded this initiative since its inception.
We are enormously proud of the work that Dr. Key has performed in the Flint Community. He is also, the founder and Executive Director of the Community Engagement Studio of Flint, the home of the Flint Public Health Youth Academy. He is a native of Flint, born and raised here; and is a product of the Flint School System.
Not a small feat...
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COMMUNITY BASED ORGANIZATION PARTNERS
Community Based Organization Partners is an umbrella organization comprised of CBOs
(Community Based Organizations) whose united task is to educate, train, research and
mobilize underrepresented, underserved, and under-resourced grass root communities to achieve equity in health and social justice priorities.
"There is no power for change greater than a community discovering what it cares about."
– Margaret J. Wheatley
