COMMUNITY ENGAGED RESESARCH
Community engagement is essential to clinical and translational science because it helps ensure that research leads to meaningful improvements in health. By building strong partnerships with community members, patients, organizations, and other stakeholders, researchers gain valuable insights that help shape studies around real-world needs and priorities. This collaboration strengthens the quality and relevance of research and helps build trust in the research process.
The Community and Stakeholder Engagement Program (CASE) of the Miami CTSI bridges researchers and local communities to ensure that research initiatives meet the needs of the community. It’s consultative services, educational programs and resources for researchers support community engaged research by providing investigators with the guidance and tools on how they can foster strong and meaningful connections with the community.
CLINICAL TRIALS
Clinical trials are part of clinical research and are critical to advancing medicine. They are research studies involving volunteer participants that evaluate new medical approaches and increase scientific understanding of a wide variety of diseases.
Involvement in a clinical trial is strictly voluntary, and people who participate may or may not experience personal benefits.
If you decide to participate in a clinical trial, you will play an important role in advancing scientific knowledge and helping future patients.
Participate in Research
Here are ways that you can participate in a clinical trial or other type of health research study at the University of Miami
OUR COLLABORATORS
To build our capacity for research collaboration, the Miami CTSI has established key relationships with important academic, community and clinical collaborators.