*please respond to cbresearch@...

Dear migrant health research colleagues,

Are you from a community group or community-institutional partnership in the US
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@... as soon as possible. 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@...

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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Community-Campus Partnerships for Health promotes health (broadly defined)
through partnerships between communities and higher educational institutions.
Become a member today at www.ccph.info

Join us for CCPH's 11th Conference, April 29-May 2, 2009 in Milwaukee, WI!
The call for proposals will be released this summer!
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