Are you from a community group or partnership in involved in research? We need to hear from you by May 2!

[Discussion list for COMM-ORG]

[ed:  please contact Sarena directly at the address below to participate 
in the study.  Please also feel welcomed to send stories to COMM-ORG if 
you feel moved by this message.]

From: Sarena Seifer <sarena at u.washington.edu>

Dear community organizing colleagues,

Are you from a community group or community-institutional partnership in 
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 at une.edu as soon as possible 
and no later than May 2!  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 at une.edu

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 Nancy Shore, University of New England School of 
Social Work (UNE)

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

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

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