J Health Care Poor Underserved

Despite the direct contribution of community-engaged research towards effective translation, establishing strong and sustained community academic research partnerships remains a challenge. The Atlanta Clinical and Translational Science Institute's Community Engagement Research Program (CERP) has developed and implemented three models for using small grants to seed new community academic partnerships for research: 1) community-initiated health projects with faculty partners, 2) dissemination of discoveries to community partners, and 3) building collaborative research capacity. In this paper, we describe each model in terms of its purpose, funding level, funding period, proposal requirements, selection criteria and faculty involvement. Resulting partnerships are described, along with benefits and challenges from faculty and community perspectives, and lessons learned in using these mechanisms to promote community-engaged research. These models may aid others attempting to promote community-engaged research for the purpose of narrowing the gap between research, practice and ultimately, impact on community health.TL1 TR000456/TR/NCATS NIH HHS/United StatesU48 DP000049/DP/NCCDPHP CDC HHS/United StatesU48 DP001909/DP/NCCDPHP CDC HHS/United StatesUL1 TR000454/TR/NCATS NIH HHS/United States2017-08-14T00:00:00Z27180693PMC5554883vault:2391