Work like this doesn't stay quiet for long. Open Path Resources' partnerships and programs have been covered by local newsrooms, cited by researchers, and recognized with statewide awards for community-based care. Here's where that story has been told.
The Muslim men and women gathered in a Bloomington classroom recently are part of an experiment to help hospitals, universities and correctional centers fill a...
The state-run Yunus Emre Institute is hosting East African-American Muslim students who are mostly Somali-Americans and NGO representatives from Minnesota, in Turkey in a bid...
The University of Minnesota’s Humphrey School of Public Affairs — named for one Minnesotan who was once vice president — will hold a yearlong series of events to...
Van Keulen, M., Meuers, A., Mohamed, S., Diri, W., & Wegner, M., “Fostering Identity and Civic Engagement Among Muslim Youths,” in Discourses of Human Rights Education (Springer, 2025) — co-authored by OPR’s Mike Van Keulen and Imam Sharif Mohamed — https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-88615-7_5
Pratt, R. et al., “Views of Somali women and men on the use of faith-based messages…” (peer-reviewed study affiliated with OPR board member Dr. Rebekah Pratt), 2017, PubMed/NIH — https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28320350/
Pratt, R. et al., “Community Voices for Health: Developing Methods of Engagement in Somali Immigrant Communities in the Era of COVID-19,” Annals of Family Medicine, 2022 (affiliated with OPR board member Dr. Rebekah Pratt) — https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36706376/
Hall, S. & Padela, A.I., “Engaging Muslim Americans for Research on Community Health (E-MARCH): Results and Lessons Learned from a PCOR Capacity-Building Program,” Progress in Community Health Partnerships, 2021 (national PCORI-funded program; a direct OPR affiliation could not be confirmed) — https://doi.org/10.1353/cpr.2021.0040
Pratt, R. et al., “Views of Somali women and men on the use of faith-based messages…” (peer-reviewed study affiliated with OPR board member Dr. Rebekah Pratt), 2017, PubMed/NIH — https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28320350/
Pratt, R. et al., “Testing a Religiously Tailored Intervention with Somali American Muslim Women and Imams to Increase Participation in Breast and Cervical Cancer Screening,” Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health, 22(1), 87–95, 2020 (affiliated with OPR board member Dr. Rebekah Pratt; published volume/issue differs from originally supplied citation) — https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10903-019-00881-x
