Best Practices in Community Engaged Research (Version 3.0, December 2008)
Up one levelDecember 2008
1. How to think broadly about how to define community and identify community partners
2. How to re-focus the research agenda to include primary care and prevention
3. How to design flexible research projects that incorporate the community
4. How to include community partners in the earliest stages of research planning
5. How to link community engagement and policy making support
6. How to reach out to provide care - providing medical care outside of the walls of the academic medical center
7. How to successfully leverage existing resources, information, and tools which have been effective in community engagement
8. How to use non-traditional, culturally-sensitive, effective methods and strategies to recruit within communities
9. How to be culturally smart when approaching and working with communities
10. Identifying ways to compensate community workers – Pay and Compensation
11. How to successfully use innovative methods and strategies for disseminating information
12. How to identify the best training models for different audiences (medical students, researchers, community partners, etc.)
13. How to understand how to work with an entire practice staff, not just the providers
14. How to work with community partners to collectively set the research agenda
15. How to successfully use both high-technological and low-technological methods of engagement
16. How to change expectations of data acquisition and sharing
17. How to structure long-term relationships with community partners
18. How to build larger partnerships through small pilot projects
19. How to identify ways to share funds with community partners
20. How to build trust with partners
21. How to demonstrate that community engagement has improved your population's health – outcomes that matter (evaluation)