Community-Academic Research Partnership Checklist

A Resource for building and sustaining community-engaged research partnerships

What is this resource?

The Community-Academic Research Partnership Checklist is a practical resource designed to guide the development and maintenance of collaborative, community-engaged research (CEnR). This checklist provides essential steps for creating productive partnerships, including building trust, communicating clearly, and valuing each participant’s expertise. It covers partnership formation, research team management, question development, protocol establishment, effective communication, and resource connection. The checklist emphasizes transparency, shared decision-making, and mutual respect, outlining actionable practices such as defining roles, setting research priorities, agreeing on communication protocols, and confronting conflicts constructively. By following these guidelines, partners can foster sustainable and impactful research alliances that respect both community and academic perspectives, ultimately enhancing research quality and community benefit.

How this advances translational science

Involving communities as research collaborators to enable research advances across the translational continuum.