Community Partners
Our Community Engagement Program promotes new collaborations and projects that positively impact the health of communities. This is done through research focused on community-identified and defined priorities with community and academic partners.
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The Clinical and Translational Science Pilot Award aims to support new and innovative research projects relevant to clinical & translational science (CTS). CTS is a field of investigation focused on understanding a scientific or operational principle that underlies a step of the translational process, with the goal of developing generalizable principles to accelerate translational research.
Beginning with a human-centered design consultation, we partner with research teams across the University of Michigan to help them transform research ideas into full interventions. Our unique approach actively focuses on engaging the product or service's target audience throughout the entire design process.
The Community Engagement (CE) Studio provides an opportunity for researchers to enhance their research project during an interactive session with patients, caregivers, health care providers, community members, and other non-researcher stakeholders.
Featured Resources for Community Partners
This self-guided course is designed to outline best practices for clinical research. While these best practices are based in the principles of Good Clinical Practice (GCP) from the International Conference on Harmonization, this course is not able to fulfill requirements to complete GCP training.
Community-engaged research (CEnR) occurs when academic institutions and community organizations come together to make real and lasting change in the form of practices, programs, and ultimately policies that mobilize resources and influence systems.
The Detroit Area Mental Health Leadership Team, a community-engaged research partnership with MICHR, collaborated with community-academic partners in Metropolitan Detroit to develop an advocacy brief examining the impact of stigma in cases of opioid use disorder (OUD) and recommend public health approaches to re-designing recovery services during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Community Engagement team has created community-focused flyers at an accessible reading level with information regarding COVID-19.
In 2016, the Michigan Institute for Clinical & Health Research (MICHR) met with community partners in Flint to identify ways it could support their recovery. The meeting resulted in MICHR funding several research projects focused on the Flint Water Crisis.
To address the need for consistent training and assessment of research skills, MICHR has collaborated three other universities to create the DIAMOND portal. The portal is a digital collection that serves as a sustainable, federated database for members of clinical and translational research study teams to share and access training and assessment resources.
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This workshop outlines the process of obtaining valid informed consent and will give you the opportunity to demonstrate necessary language and communication skills when interacting with potential study participants and their families. This session is not about writing the informed consent document or specific U-M IRB requirements. Attendees of the workshop should come prepared for active participation during the workshop.
Have you completed basic instruction in clinical research but are looking for more? The Instruction in Monitoring, Procedures Documentation and ClinicalTrials.gov (IMPACT) workshop series is designed for study team members who are ready for an intermediate level of training for clinical trials skills. Participants will learn critical clinical research skills through a group learning environment and hands-on skills practice.
On May 21, 2024, BRISP will present a conference on “Advancing Behavioral Science through AI and Digital Health.” The conference is designed for BSSR scientists to learn about AI and applications to their research. It brings together several AI experts on campus and features Keynote Speaker Amy Bucher, Ph.D., Chief Behavioral Officer at Lirio.