Team and Partners

For researchers and community partners, contact us to establish services and support

Community partnered research meeting at a local community park

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. Contact CERP

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