Team and Partners
For researchers and community partners, contact us to establish services and support
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Partner with Us
Thank you for your interest in the UCLA CTSI Community Engagement and Research Program (CERP) consultation service!
We provide a unique service to researchers and academic and community research partners: a group of experts from academic (Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Charles Drew University, the Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, and UCLA) and community partners and stakeholder organization with many perspectives and specialized experience to help move current or planned projects forward.
CERP consultations are for community-engaged research projects looking for input on methods, engagement, partnership strategies, evaluation, grant preparation, community advisory board implementation, dissemination, or any issue that will further a current or prospective research project.
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For Researchers
Access & Insight
- Ability to gain access and insight into community priorities, knowledge, resources, health assets and health challenges
- Gain advisory guidance from community members on research applicability and policy implications towards improving public health
Partnership
- Mutally-beneficial partnership with community partners to work together to impact public health who share an interest in improving the health of LA County
- Community Partner matchmaking
Research & Program Support
- Community outreach assistance for recruitment and data collection from multilingual staff members
- Grant preparation assistance for incorporating community-engaged or health services research into grant proposals
- Pilot funding/incentives for community based research projects
Training
- Strategies to promote academic-community collaborations
- Research dissemination strategies to communities stakeholders
For Community Partners
Access & Insight
- Provide voice, community expertise and valuable insight towards improving public health, equity, and research
- Access to university resources, knowledge, evaluation, and evidence based practices
Partnership
- Mutually-beneficial partnership to work together to impact public health
Research & Program Support
- Development of practical applicable data for community use
- Program evaluation or data analysis for measurable change
- Support for community partnered grant writing
Training
- Addressing health equity in communities
- Training on generating evidence for your work
- Bi-directional interactive capacity building to promote academic-community partners