Engage for Equity: Advancing Research Support for Institutional, Patient & Stakeholder Partnering). Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) funding (2021-2023)
Project Partners: Morehouse School of Medicine, Prevention Research Center; Fred Hutchinson/University of Washington Cancer Consortium; and Stanford School of Medicine/Cancer Institute. Community Engagement. Consultants include: Alan Richmond, Community Campus Partnerships for Health; and Tung Nguyen, University of California, San Francisco
Significance: While use of PCORI/community engaged/community based participatory research (CBPR) principles are growing, institutional commitment, incentives, and policies within Academic Health Centers (AHCs) that support patient stakeholder involvement is haphazard or minimal. Challenges include:
Approach: The University of New Mexico with three national partners (see above), will seek to address institutional barriers using our evidence-based “Engage for Equity” metrics, workshops, and tools which have been validated at the partnership level to scale up to E2 PLUS.
Assess institutional factors in three distinct sites to promote and sustain PCOR using equity-based CEnR/CBPR approaches.
Implement E2 PLUS tools and resources, provide coaching for champion teams; provide workshops for community and institutional partners (25-30 people), and track changes in research support capacities, policies, structures, and processes.