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Toolkit for Building Primary Care Research at Your Community Health Center

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Source: Community Health Innovation and Research Program, Harvard Catalyst, The Harvard Clinical and Translational Science Center

Type: Online Modules

Level: Intermediate

Description: Community health centers that serve our most vulnerable populations play an important role in improving the health of communities. The potential for their role in the research enterprise and in translating evidence into practice is enormous. But, they often lack the infrastructure, resources, and time necessary to effectively lead or collaborate in research. This toolkit is designed to provide clinical and administrative staff at Community Health Centers with the elements involved in building a primary care research infrastructure. Organized into eight stand-alone modules, health center clinicians and staff will find information on the following:

  1. Introduction to Quality Improvement and Research Module 1 slides [PDF].
  2. Building Primary Care Research Infrastructure Module 2 slides [PDF].
  3. Data: Access and Utilization Module 3 slides [PDF].
  4. Study Design and Methods Overview Module 4 slides [PDF].
  5. Dissemination and Action Module 5 slides [PDF].
  6. Funding Your Research Module 6 slides [PDF].
  7. Partnerships for Research Module 7 slides [PDF].
  8. Ethics and the Institutional Review Board Module 8 slides [PDF].

The toolkit is a product of the Safety Net Infrastructure Initiative, a program of the Community Health Innovation and Research Program, Harvard Catalyst | The Harvard Clinical and Translational Science Center.

Social Determinants of Health: The Community as an Empowered Partner

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Source: Preventing Chronic Disease: Public Health Research, Practice, and Policy, 2004 (January), 1(1): 1-5.

Type: PDF

Level: Intermediate

Description: An essay by S. Leonard Syme, Professor Emeritus of Epidemiology of the University of California, Berkeley, which discusses the importance and challenges of community partner involvement.

The assessment, monitoring, and enhancement of treatment fidelity in public health clinical trials

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Source: Journal of Public Health Dentistry

Type: Article

Level: Intermediate

Description: This paper by B. Borrelli PhD introduces the concept of treatment fidelity in health behavior change trials conducted in public health contexts. It outlines the National Institutes of Health’s Behavioral Change Consortium framework for assessing and monitoring treatment fidelity across five domains: Study Design, Training, Delivery, Receipt, and Enactment. Specific guidelines on how to integrate treatment fidelity measures into study design and implementation are discussed.

Advice on Writing Proposals to the National Science Foundation

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Source: Carnegie Mellon University

Type: Online Reading

Level: Basic

Description: Informative and brief overview of how to write research grants to the National Science Foundation as well as a few useful forms.

Finding Solutions to Challenges in Community-Based Participatory Research Between Academic and Community Organizations (2006)

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Source: Journal of Interprofessional Care

Type: PDF document

Level: Advanced

Description: This article provides a case study of the challenges of community-academic partnerships and suggested solutions.

The Grant Application Writer’s Workbook, National Science Foundation

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Source: 2010 Grant Writer’s Seminar & Workbook LLC

Type: Online Reading

Level: Intermediate

Description: Provides an online interactive workbook to assist in the grant writing process for the National Science Foundation.

Easy Approaches to Convert Quality Improvement to Research

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Source: Improving Science Research Network

Type: Web Seminar

Level: Advanced

Description: “With the approaches described in this seminar, it becomes clear that for the clinician, there is no hospital too small for conducting improvement research; and for the scientist, there is no research question too big that can’t be answered and supported through a research network. Today, multi-site network studies are a necessity to generate evidence for healthcare improvement and patient safety, but how well do they work? Join the ISRN for a discussion on easing the transition of a project from quality improvement to research.”

Epi Info

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Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Type: Statistical Program

Level: Intermediate

Description: This a free statistics database and analysis software program from CDC.gov. “Physicians, nurses, epidemiologists, and other public health workers lacking a background in information technology often have a need for simple tools that allow the rapid creation of data collection instruments and data analysis, visualization, and reporting using epidemiologic methods. Epi Info™, a suite of lightweight software tools, delivers core ad-hoc epidemiologic functionality without the complexity or expense of large, enterprise applications.

Epi Info™ is easily used in places with limited network connectivity or limited resources for commercial software and professional IT support. Epi Info™ is flexible, scalable, and free while enabling data collection, advanced statistical analyses, and geographic information system (GIS) mapping capability.”

Why Health Centers Should Engage in Research and How to Get Started

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Source: National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC) and the Association of Asian Pacific Community Health Organizations (AAPCHO)

Type: Brief

Level: Basic

Description: NACHC and AAPCHO are pleased to release a new report written by Mary Oneha, the Chief Executive Officer of Waimanalo Health Center in Hawaii. Titled “Why Health Centers Should Engage in Research and How to Get Started”, this report provides the business case for health centers to engage in research.  Drawing from the author’s own experience and others, the brief outlines the benefits research brings to health centers, discusses how research fits into health centers’ mission, and maps out the steps to take to get started in research.  

From Bench to Bedroom: Testing and Translating Behavioral Interventions form Research into Practice

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Source: Clinical Directors Network, Inc.

Type: Web Simulcast

Level: Intermediate

Description: Jonathan Tobin PhD, FACE, FAHA, President/CEO of Clinical Directors Network Inc. (CDN) and Co-Director of Community Engaged Research at The Rockefeller University Center for Clinical and Translational Science, discusses translational research implementation strategy and models of community-based randomized clinical trials of behavioral interventions.  He uses the specific example of a  model utilized in a multi-phase, multi-site, randomized controlled trial, SMART/EST, which implemented stress management and relaxation training/expressive supportive therapy to women who are HIV positive, to improve physiological and mental health related outcomes. Strategy for sustained implementation of interventions within health centers after study completion is discussed. The session imparts knowledge on the interface between behavioral interventions, clinical outcomes, and biological markers as well as discusses the distinctions between clinical, behavioral, public health, patient-centered, and biological outcomes.