Community and Academic Partners Will Collaborate to Identify Local Health Priorities Through CHRIS
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The Community Health Research Investment System (CHRIS) program is an academic/community collaboration to design a process and select priorities for investment in health initiatives locally. The purpose of CHRIS is to guide the investment of CCTST resources into collaborative research with high community impact.
In February, the CHRIS program had its first workgroup meeting. Utilizing a community-engaged research approach called “Group Level Assessment (GLA)”, workgroup members wrote responses to a list of prompts around barriers to health, what made previous programs succeed or fail, gaps in local healthcare, priorities to focus on, etc. Responses were then narrowed down into themes. A similar process will be completed in April with broader community participation. In May, the CHRIS workgroup will meet to review the data gathered and start building the program.
The CHRIS Program would like to invite 30-40 individuals to participate in the two-hour virtual GLA session in April. Participants will help program leadership learn about local health needs, barriers, and priorities from community perspectives. Their insights will guide the development of a program that invests in community-engaged research with meaningful community impact.
If you know someone from the community whose perspective would be valuable to this effort, please send their contact information to Shaina Rose Horner (hornersr@ucmail.uc.edu), senior research associate for the CCTST Community and Stakeholder Engagement program.
Participants will receive $25 per hour in compensation, provided as a virtual gift card.
