VCU Faculty Make the Case for Authentic Engagement of Community in Research
Steven H. Woolf, M.D., M.P.H., director of the VCU Center on Society and Health and co-director of the C. Kenneth and Dianne Wright Center for Clinical and Translational Research’s (CCTR) Community Engagement Core, collaborated with his team to publish an article on “authentic” engagement in the April 2016 theme issue of Health Affairs focused on patients’ use of evidence.
In conjunction with the article’s publication, Woolf was invited to present his research at a release event hosted by Health Affairs on Thursday, April 7 in Washington, D.C.
“Researchers often wonder how to engage the community in their trials, but we should turn the question 180 degrees,” said Woolf. “The question is not how to engage the community in our research but how to get researchers engaged in the community’s work to improve population health.”
The article discusses two examples from studies conducted by VCU researchers that cite the benefits of engaging patients and the public as full stakeholders in the design and conduct of research. One of these studies was conducted, in part, by the Center on Society and Health’s Engaging Richmond team, a community-academic partnership funded by the CCTR’s Center for Translational Science Award (No. UL1TR000058).
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Citation:
Steven H. Woolf, Emily Zimmerman, Amber Haley and Alex H. Krist
Authentic Engagement Of Patients And Communities Can Transform Research, Practice, And Policy
Health Affairs 35, no.4 (2016):590-594
doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.2015.1512
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