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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Jan 19.
Published in final edited form as: Circ Res. 2018 Jan 19;122(2):213–230. doi: 10.1161/CIRCRESAHA.117.312243

TABLE 2B.

Engaging Community Stakeholders*

Opportunities Challenges Strategies/Leverage Partnerships Useful Resources
  • Seek opportunities for building trust

  • Embrace cultural humility and humanity

  • Provide tool-kits and resource guide for community partners

  • Provide training on community engagement strategies and best practices (FAQs, webinars, etc.)

  • Fund more engagement/ relationship research vs. transactional research

  • Seek compromise, not consensus

  • Create research funding opportunities that pair communities with high burden of disease with the funded-researchers who can support them

  • Program sustainability to include local businesses, government, etc.

  • Lack of shared resources and engagement between researchers and Community Members

  • Increased costs for funding both research and community engagement activities

  • Create a “Community Engagement” Study Section for grant reviews

  • Add specific grant application review criteria/elements for Community Partners

  • Increase reviewer training opportunities

  • Include more junior and early-stage investigators in the application review process

  • Encourage use of administrative supplements to support lapses in funding community-based research

  • Promote/reward partnerships for sustainability

  • Create more community engagement partnerships

  • Host workshops/town hall meetings solely for community stakeholders and partners at NIH

  • Engage and promote usage of community advisory boards within funded research projects

  • Create partnership opportunities to improve health literacy

  • Community Campus Partnership for Health (CCPH) model

  • CTSA Consortium Community Engagement Key Function Committee Task Force on the Principles of Community Engagement

  • Community-Based Public Health Caucus

  • RWJF Culture of Health

  • Community Engagement Models from PCORI

  • CDC, ATSDR Models and Frameworks for the Practice of Community Engagement

  • Loyola Univ. Certification Program on Community Engagement

  • NIEHS Community-Engaged Research and Citizen Science

  • PEPH Resource Center

  • CPBR academy resources

  • AHRQ Activities Using Community-Based Participatory Research to Address Health Care Disparities

AHRQ: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; ATSDR: Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry; CBPR: Community-Based Participatory Research; CTSA: Clinical and Translational Science Awards; FAQ: Frequently Asked Question; NHLBI: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute; NIEHS: National Institute of Environmental Health Science; PEPH: Partnerships for Environmental Public Health; RWJF: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation; PCORI: Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute; PRIDE: Programs to Increase Diversity Among Individuals Engaged in Health-Related Research;

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Workshop participants recommended that NHLBI consider these activities.

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