The goal of the ICTR Community and Collaboration Core (CCC) is to foster and facilitate this community engagement and collaborative effort by providing access to expert patient- and community-centered services and resources. ICTR-supported services include:
CONSULTATIONS WITH ICTR CCC LEADERS
- Assist with writing the community-engagement section of your extramural grant proposal.
- Partnering with communities of interest to conduct real-world pragmatic clinical trials
- Conducting intervention implementation evaluations
- Content expertise in palliative care, geriatrics, and post-acute and long-term care settings.
- Practitioner-based community engaged research networks (PBRNs) - Oral Health Care & Literacy Expertise - Advisory board development and coalition building, Oral - systemic disease interactions
ACCESS TO THE COMMUNITY THINK TANK ON RESEARCH
- The UMB PATIENTS Program regularly hosts Community Think Tanks to improve research protocols to make them patient and community-centered. With shared governance, the Community Think Tank on Research is a paradigm shifting initiative comprised of five community leaders who provide researchers with advice during a live interactive conversation. The conversation is about 50 minutes. The researcher has ten minutes to present and then to the conversation transition to Q&A session. UMB’s faculty are invited to apply to receive guidance on how to make their clinical and translational research proposals, or active projects, more patient and community centered. The Community Think Tank is a space where community leaders work with researchers to co-develop culturally appropriate community-engaged research.
- To learn more about and/or apply to an upcoming Community Think Tank, please contact Andrelle Mathelier, lead research project coordinator with the PATIENTS Program. She will schedule a 30-minute info/prep session to discuss the opportunity more.
ACCESS TO THE PATIENTS PROGRAM
- The PATient-centered Involvement in Evaluating the effectiveNess of TreatmentS partners with patients and care providers to answer questions about the best treatment options to improve health and quality of life. People from all communities, especially those from minority populations, are engaged in every step of the patient-centered outcomes research (PCOR) process. Through collective efforts, an effective learning health care community is created. Research priorities are aligned with the values of patients and communities to make research more relevant and patient-centered. The PATIENTS Program trains patients, stakeholders, and researchers to become co-developers of PCOR. Up to 50 hours of ICTR support in one of the following areas:
- Develop participant instruction videos, or
- Assemble a community advisory board, or
- Connect with PATIENTS Professors. PATIENTS Professors are patients, caregivers, or community members who graduated from the PATIENTS Professors Academy. They are experts with lived experiences managing health conditions. PATIENTS Professors can teach us how to make health care research more patient-centered.
RESEARCH VEHICLE
- Researchers can check out transportation for a few hours or for a day to transport the study team and supplies to a site in the community. The vehicle cannot be used to transport patients or participants.
How to Apply for ICTR Resources
For UMB faculty, use your UMID to log in to the ICTR Resource Request webpage to access the link to the application (developed in REDCap).
For UMBC, UMCP, and JHU faculty, please here.
Restrictions. No Exceptions.
- Applicants must have a FACULTY APPOINTMENT of AT LEAST 51% to apply. Proxies (research staff, students, residents, etc.) are not allowed to complete the application.
- Applicant must be PI of the project.
