Enhancing Community/Academic Clinical Research Collaboration

描述（由申请人提供）：从一开始，密歇根临床与健康研究所（MICHR）社区参与计划（CE）就以社区参与研究（CBPR）的指导原则为基础，由社区领导人和大学教职员工共同制定了最初的临床转化科学奖，并纳入了项目启动时的临床研究倡导者（CRAs）。我们认识到，如果我们要真正造福整个社区的健康，在临床和转化研究中充分代表服务不足群体的成员是至关重要的。因此，我们将资源集中于以下高危群体：种族和少数民族、妇女、高危婴儿、儿童和青年以及残疾人——最初将重点放在底特律、弗林特和华盛顿诺县传统上服务不足的社区，并在每个重点社区开展CRA工作。该《区域卫生协定》提供了一个机会，可以利用我们的行政长官方案的现有优势，进一步协调和扩大三个模范社区伙伴的专业知识，以描述和推进基本的最佳做法，使社区能够通过以下具体目标提高公共卫生水平：1)提高我们的社区伙伴的能力，使他们能够以更有权力和独立的方式参与、促进和指导社区研究活动的某些方面；2)加速发展富有成效的学术/社区合作，减少启动和完成基于社区的临床研究所需的时间；3)利用CBPR原则开发和完善研究过程的各个阶段，以吸引合作伙伴，并将合作伙伴关系与成果（最终与传播）联系起来。我们将利用密歇根大学开发的成功的“研究伙伴”模式，分三个阶段实现这些目标，该模式扩大了三个CRA的作用。在第一阶段，我们将共同开发促进共同学习的培训模块；在第二阶段，我们将培训和认证社区成员和研究人员；在第三阶段，我们将评估和综合传播的最佳做法。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Enhancing Community/Academic Clinical Research Collaboration From its inception, the Michigan Institute for Clinical and Health Research (MICHR) Community Engagement Program (CE) has based its efforts on the guiding principles of Community Based Participatory Research (CBPR), with our initial Clinical Translational Science Award jointly developed by community leaders and university faculty and staff, incorporating Clinical Research Advocates (CRAs) from the project start-up. We recognize that it is vitally important that members of underserved groups be adequately represented in clinical and translational research if we are truly to benefit the health of the whole community. Thus, we have focused our resources towards the at-risk groups of: racial and ethnic minorities, women, at-risk infants, children and youth, and persons with disabilities - initially focusing on traditionally underserved communities within Detroit, Flint, and Washtenaw County, with CRA effort in each focal community. This RFA provides the opportunity to build upon the existing strengths of our CE program, and to further coordinate and expand the expertise of three exemplary community partners in order to describe and advance the essential best practices that capacitate communities for the purposes of uplifting the public health through the following specific aims: 1) Enhance the capacity of our community partners to engage in, contribute to and direct selected aspects of community-based research activities in a more empowered and independent fashion; 2) Accelerate the development of productive academic/community collaborations reducing the time required to initiate and complete community-based clinical research and 3) utilize CBPR principles to develop and refine stages of the research process for engaging partners and linking partnerships to outcomes (and ultimately to dissemination). We will accomplish these aims in three phases using a successful 'Partners in Research' model developed at the University of Michigan that expands the role of the three CRA's. In Phase 1 we will jointly develop training modules that facilitate co-learning; in phase 2 we will train and certify community members and researchers; and in phase 3 we will evaluate and synthesize best practices for dissemination. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: From its inception, the Michigan Institute for Clinical and Health Research (MICHR) Community Engagement Program (CE) has based its efforts on the guiding principles of Community Based Participatory Research (CBPR), with our initial Clinical Translational Science Award jointly developed by community leaders and university faculty and staff, incorporating Clinical Research Advocates (CRAs) from the project start-up. We recognize that it is vitally important that members of underserved groups be adequately represented in clinical and translational research if we are truly to benefit the health of the whole community.