Community-Based Research
New publication on disseminating research findings
The Community Alliance for Research and Engagement (CARE) has published “Beyond Scientific Publication: Strategies for Disseminating Research Findings“. CARE is part of the Yale Center for Clinical Investigation (YCCI), one of the CTSAs established in 2006. This guide provides key strategies for dissemination, including practical advice and specific templates you can adapt for your use.
Here a description of the publication (p. 1):
A community research partnership is ideally part of a larger collaboration that includes the interests of each partner and spans a wide range of activities. Often a neglected afterthought in busy research schedules, the dissemination of key findings upon project completion is a crucial step in community-based research. In fact, we believe that researchers have an ethical obligation to ensure that research findings are disseminated to research participants, as well as other individuals and institutions in the communities in which we work. In an effort to increase ease and efficiency, this document provides key strategies for dissemination, including practical advice and specific templates you can adapt for your use. Through this strategic dissemination approach, CARE intends to distribute salient findings to affected communities, participant agencies, health departments, researchers, policy makers, and health advocacy groups. We hope this will help you to do the same.
For more information on CARE, see visit their website at: http://ycci.yale.edu/outreach/index.html.
Getting to know the UAB CCTS – One Great Community
One Great Community is the formal venue for developing and enhancing community partnerships within the UAB Center for Clinical and Translational Science. Its goals are to:
1) Translate scientific knowledge generated at UAB into direct community benefit;
2) Engage the community in the generation of questions and ideas that will be pursued by CCTS researchers through hypothesis-driven research in partnership with the community, and;
3) Support and facilitate collaboration and trust between the community and the biomedical research enterprise.
One Great Community uses the methodology of community-based participatory research to meet these goals, and build on extensive and long-standing partnerships that join UAB researchers with communities in the impoverished, rural Deep South and with the region’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). Community-based participatory research has grown significantly in popularity and practice in the US and is a major emphasis of the CTSA initiative.
To learn more about community-academic research partnerships, please read the following article:
ABSTRACT: Responding to both the proliferation of higher-education-community partnerships and the paucity of studies that report the perspective of the community partners in such relationships, we interviewed community leaders to learn about their motivations for and experiences of participating in higher-education-community research partnerships. The article reports community leaders’ assessments of the benefits and challenges of engaging in such partnerships, shares their advice for both community and university-based actors considering involvement in such partnerships, and explores the larger institutional and structural issues that bedevil higher-education-community partnerships.
