Disseminating Best Practices
The Community Engagement Program disseminates information and best practices about community-engaged research through consultations, invited talks and seminars, and publications.
The Community Engagement Program is a source of information and guidance on best practices for community-engaged research for community members and researchers. Consultations also include referrals to other CTSI services and partnerships, support with the BHN Research Collaborative, letters of support, and research review with the Health Equity in Research CAB.
To request a consultation with the Community Engagement Program, please email the BU CTSI CE Program.
Recent Publications
- Young, A., Toraif, N., Le, C., Gergen Barnett, K., & Augsberger, A. (2024). Facing power: navigating power dynamics in a youth participatory action research project situated within a healthcare setting. Journal of Community Practice, 32(3), 315–336.
- Augsberger, A., Young, A., Toraif, N., Morris, M., & Gergen Barnett, K. Youth engagement to achieve health equity: Are health care organizations and leaders prepared? American Journal of Community Psychology. 2023. DOI:10.1002/ajcp.12656
- Sprague Martinez L, Chassler D, Lobb R, Hakim D, Pamphile J, Battaglia TA. A Discussion Among Deans on Advance Community Engaged Research. Clin Transl Sci. 2023 Jan 27. PMID: 36707736
- Lobb, R., King, K., Pierre-Louis, L., Bora, C., Albert, A., Richmond, A., … & Sprague Martinez, L. Notes from the field: moving initiatives from isolation to collective impact to change community-engaged research practices in an academic medical system. Journal of Community Practice. 2023; 31(3-4), 383-396.
- Martinez, L. S., Howard, R. C., Schotland, M., Lobb, R., Battaglia, T., Stone, S., … & Ozer, E. Community engagement and financial arrangements: Navigating institutional change. Journal of Clinical and Translational Science. 2023; 7(1), e261
- Sprague Martinez L, Araujo Brinkerhoff C, Howard RC, et al. Strategies to promote language inclusion at 17 CTSA hubs. Journal of Clinical and Translational Science. 2024;8(1):e67. doi:10.1017/cts.2024.13
Talks and Media
- Groups hardest hit by COVID-19 appear least likely to get care for its lingering effects. (The Boston Globe, March 7, 2022)
- After the Infection Is Gone: MassCPR experts discuss the knowns and unknowns of long COVID. (Harvard Medical School, June 9, 2022).
- Estimates of long Covid are startingly high. Here’s how to understand them. (STAT, July 6, 2022).
- To restore trust in science, make it accessible; here’s how. (The Hill, July 12, 2022)
- Patient navigators key in closing equity gaps in cancer treatment. (HealthCity, August 4, 2022)
- COVID-19 is Still Here!: A Roundtable on the Aftermath Impact of COVID-19 Virus on Refugee, Immigrant and Forcibly Displaced Communities. (American Public Health Association Annual Meeting, November, 2022)
