The community voices program to facilitate community-academic researcher partnerships: Stakeholder perspectives on the program's usefulness.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

The Institute of Translational Health Sciences (Clinical and Translational Science Awards Program hub) developed a program coined Community Voices to invite communities to submit project ideas and be matched with academic researchers. We describe formative research to understand community and academic researcher perspectives on how the program could facilitate collaborations addressing community priorities.

Methods

We conducted four focus groups with 31 community-based organization (CBO) representatives and 11 semi-structured interviews with academic researchers in the Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana, and Idaho regions. Questions included the appeal of Community Voices to engage community and academic partners, potential program usefulness, and Community Vo

SUBMITTER: Ramirez M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10663767 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature