Are you from a community group or partnership in involved in research? We need to hear from you!

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*please respond to cbresearch@...

Dear migrant health research colleagues,

Are you from a community group or community-institutional partnership in the US

involved in research? We are writing to let you know about an important

national study we're involved in and to invite your participation!

Community-Campus Partnerships for Health and the University of New England are

conducting a study of community-based processes for research ethics review.

Essentially, we are interested in learning more about how community groups and

community-institutional partnerships decide what research to support, conduct

or participate in. The findings will be used to help build the capacity of

community groups and partnerships to conduct research that makes a difference

in their communities. They will also be shared with institution-based

institutional review boards (IRBs) in the hopes of addressing the concerns that

community considerations are often overlooked in their reviews of research

proposals. One product of the study will be an online repository of forms,

policies and other documents used by community groups and partnerships to make

decisions about what research they get involved in.

We are in the process of identifying US-based community groups and

community-institutional partnerships involved in research to invite to

participate in the study. Participation involves about 30 minutes to complete

an online survey. Ideally, the person completing the survey would be the one

most closely involved in the group/partnership's research activities.

If you would like to be invited to participate in the study, please email your

contact information to cbresearch@... as soon as possible. If you're not

the right person to complete the survey, please forward this email to the

person who is. And please feel free to forward this email to others who may be

interested.

We look forward to sharing the study findings with you later this year. They

will be posteed on the CCPH website at www.ccph.info. For more information

about the study, visit

http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/researchprojects.html or contact the study

team at cbresearch@...

Thanks!

The Study Team:

Study Directors: Sarena Seifer, Community-Campus Partnerships for Health

(CCPH), University of Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine

(UW); and Shore, University of New England School of Social Work (UNE)

Study Coordinator and Co-Investigator: e Wong, CCPH, UW

Graduate Research Assistants: Kirsten Cyr, UNE and Moy, CCPH, UW

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Community-Campus Partnerships for Health promotes health (broadly defined)

through partnerships between communities and higher educational institutions.

Become a member today at www.ccph.info

Join us for CCPH's 11th Conference, April 29-May 2, 2009 in Milwaukee, WI!

The call for proposals will be released this summer!

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