Community Engagement
Fostering and honoring a bidirectional understanding of our community partners' expertise.
It's our mission to catalyze, support and conduct meaningful community and academic engagement across the research spectrum to improve health and health equity. We hope you'll join us to help make communities stronger, healthier and better educated about health. Visit the Center for Community Health (CCH) website to learn more.
The Future of Community-Driven Research with Jen Brown & Sherida Morrison
In this episode of Science in Translation, Alliance for Research in Chicagoland Communities director Jen Brown, MPH, and associate director Sherida Morrison, MS, MA, discuss the benefits of a community-engaged approach for both scientists and community members, key considerations for investigators who want to partner with communities and the future of the field.
Principles of Engagement
Engagement is a process for working collaboratively with groups, such as patients, healthcare providers, public health leaders, policymakers and communities. The CCH embraces a range of engagement approaches, including informing, consulting, involving, collaborating and empowering.
Consultation Support
CCH offers access to faculty, professional staff and experienced community partners who provide expertise and guidance related to the unique methodological and practical challenges of the research process. CCH consultations can include proposal review and support, research assistance, finance and administration guidance and partner brokering and development.
Primary Care Practice-Based Research Program
The Northwestern Primary Care Practice-Based Research Program (NP3) aims to foster collaboration between community-based primary care clinicians and Northwestern scientists in order to conduct meaningful and practical studies to improve healthcare delivery and quality of care, engage patients and clinicians in research design and implementation and promote the use of evidence-based practice in primary care.
Shared Resource Panels (ShARPs)
Shared Resource Panels(ShARPs) are custom panels that bring together 8-10 community members with professional and/or personal expertise related to a research project. These community experts offer feedback on adaptations that can improve research relevance, feasibility and/or dissemination opportunities. CCH provides food, parking vouchers and compensation to panelists.
The Alliance for Research in Chicagoland Communities
The Alliance for Research in Chicagoland Communities catalyzes and supports authentic community-academic research partnerships between Chicagoland communities and Northwestern University that honor, are driven by and share power with communities to improve health and equity.
