The Practice-Based Research Program fosters collaborative research between community-based practitioners and Northwestern University full-time faculty. The program provides assistance and coordinates activities across Northwestern's two primary care, practice-based research networks: The Pediatric Practice Research Group (PPRG), directed by faculty at Children’s Memorial Hospital, the Research and Education for Academic Achievement (REACH) Network, directed by faculty in the Feinberg School of Medicine Division of General Internal Medicine.
PBRNs are groups of primary care clinicians and practices working together to answer community-based health care questions and translate research findings into practice. PBRNs engage clinicians in quality improvement activities and an evidence-based culture in primary care practice to improve the health of all Americans. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Practice-Based Research - "Blue Highways" on the NIH Roadmap, Westfall and Mold, 2007. JAMA Vol 297 No. 4 (403-7). | 
