Enabling community input to improve equity in and access to translational research: The Community Coalition for Equity in Research.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The COVID vaccine trials illustrated the critical need for the development of mechanisms to serve as a bridge between least advantaged communities and researchers. Such mechanisms would increase the number of studies that are designed with community needs and interests in mind, in ways that will close gaps rather than widen them. This paper reports on the creation of the Community Coalition for Equity in Research, a community-driven resource designed to build community capacity to provide researchers with credible and actionable input on study design and implementation and increase researchers' understanding of factors that influence community support of research.

Methods and results

We provide a description of the Coalition's structure and process and an evaluati

SUBMITTER: Emmons KM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9161041 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature