Community Engagement and Outreach

西弗吉尼亚州临床和转化科学的社区参与和外展（CEO）核心 研究所（WVCTSI）将患者，提供者和社区成员聚集在一起，以确保研究所的 研究议程反映了农村社区的卫生优先事项，研究结果和建议 为促进健康的实用、可持续和可扩展的战略提供信息。首席执行官的努力是由一个国家- 广泛的社区咨询委员会，代表非专业社区、患者、卫生保健提供者、公共卫生 工人、公民组织、纳税人和慈善非营利组织。CEO的总体目标是 确保所有西弗吉尼亚人受益于生物医学和行为方法的进步， 通过实现以下具体目标，最终改善我们州的健康成果：1）积极参与 患者和其他社区利益相关者作为研究伙伴，2）转变社区识别研究 在WVCTSI优先卫生领域改善卫生成果的外部资助项目的问题， 包括成瘾和新出现的流行病（例如，丙型肝炎）、癌症、心血管疾病和慢性肺 疾病，3）翻译和传播研究成果，为西弗吉尼亚州的卫生政策和实践提供信息。 我们将通过以社区为基础的研究和教育过程来实现这些目标，以建立信任， 加强学习。这一过程将包括完成社区概念图， 一个供农村人口使用的关于社区参与性研究的新课程。实现目标1 将导致参与的患者和社区成员谁是积极的作为研究伙伴， 他们需要帮助同样，许多调查人员和卫生保健提供者缺乏经验， 社区参与研究，也需要指导。对于目标2，CEO将采用共享学习 社区参与研究方法的培训、指导和技术援助方法。我们 不同的合作伙伴将相互学习，以互补的方式结合他们的能力， 具有转化影响力的研究，提供了一个理解和信任的水平，这是无法实现的， 个别利益相关者参与。目标3活动包括与患者，提供者，社区成员， 和研究合作伙伴制定一个全面的传播计划，提供翻译和分发 研究成果面向多个受众。向我们的合作伙伴传播调查结果，为卫生政策提供信息， 实践使我们的参与努力圆满完成。

The Community Engagement and Outreach (CEO) Core of the West Virginia Clinical and Translational Science Institute (WVCTSI) brings patients, providers, and community members together to ensure that the Institute's research agenda reflects the health priorities of rural communities, and that study findings and recommendations inform practical, sustainable, and scalable strategies to promote health. CEO's efforts are informed by a state- wide Community Advisory Board representing lay communities, patients, health care providers, public health workers, civic organizations, payers, and philanthropic non-profits organizations. The overall goal of CEO is to ensure that all West Virginians benefit from the advances in biomedical and behavioral approaches that will ultimately improve our state's health outcomes with realization of the following specific aims: 1) actively engage patients and other community stakeholders as research partners, 2) transform community-identified research questions into externally-funded projects that improve health outcomes in WVCTSI priority health areas, including addiction & emerging epidemics (e.g., hepatitis C), cancer, cardiovascular disease, and chronic lung disease, and 3) translate and disseminate research results to inform West Virginia health policy and practice. We will accomplish these Aims through a community-based research and education process to build trust and enhance learning. This process will include completing community concept maps and creating and implementing a novel curriculum on community-based participatory research for use with rural populations. Aim 1 achievement will result in engaged patients and community members who are motivated to serve as research partners but who will need assistance to do so. Similarly, many investigators and health care providers are inexperienced in community-engaged research and will also need guidance. For Aim 2, CEO will employ shared learning approaches for training, mentoring, and technical assistance in community-engaged research approaches. Our diverse partners will learn from each other, combining their capacities in a complementary fashion to conduct research with translational impact, affording a level of understanding and trust that could not be achieved by individually engaging stakeholders. Aim 3 activities include working with patient, provider, community members, and research partners to develop a comprehensive dissemination plan, providing translation and distribution of research results to multiple audiences. Dissemination of findings back to our partners to inform health policy and practice brings us full circle in our engagement efforts.