Health Care Activism, Community Health, and Patient-Centered Research
Tufts CTSI is offering a 1-credit course “Health Care Activism, Community Health, and Patient-Centered Research” this spring. The course meets Tuesdays 2:30 - 5:00PM, March 7 through April 18, and there will be a virtual option for participation. Registration is open to all.
Course Description: This introductory course covers three approaches to stakeholder and community engagement in health-related research. We refer to these approaches as traditions, since each draws from one or more distinct academic discipline(s) and was developed in its own era of civic reform.
• Patient-centered research in which researchers initiate engagement members of the public in research work to make biomedical research more useful
• Community-based health research in which researchers and communities partner to co-create research that can address community needs
• Health care activism in which members of the public organize to influence publicly funded research.
Learning Objectives:
At the conclusion of the course students should be able to:
1. Compare and contrast the historical framework, methodology, and known impacts of three distinct approaches to involving the public in research: researcher-, partnership-, and public-initiated engagement.
2. Use principles and insights from the latest “tradition” -- researcher-initiated engagement – to advise a peer on their stakeholder identification plan.
3. Use principles and insights from the latest “tradition” -- researcher-initiated engagement – to develop your own research engagement plan
4. Identify potential impacts of stakeholder engagement in your own research.
Tufts CTSI is offering a 1-credit course “Health Care Activism, Community Health, and Patient-Centered Research” this spring. The course meets Tuesdays 2:30 - 5:00PM, March 7 through April 18, and there will be a virtual option for participation. Registration is open to all.
Course Description: This introductory course covers three approaches to stakeholder and community engagement in health-related research. We refer to these approaches as traditions, since each draws from one or more distinct academic discipline(s) and was developed in its own era of civic reform.
• Patient-centered research in which researchers initiate engagement members of the public in research work to make biomedical research more useful
• Community-based health research in which researchers and communities partner to co-create research that can address community needs
• Health care activism in which members of the public organize to influence publicly funded research.
Learning Objectives:
At the conclusion of the course students should be able to:
1. Compare and contrast the historical framework, methodology, and known impacts of three distinct approaches to involving the public in research: researcher-, partnership-, and public-initiated engagement.
2. Use principles and insights from the latest “tradition” -- researcher-initiated engagement – to advise a peer on their stakeholder identification plan.
3. Use principles and insights from the latest “tradition” -- researcher-initiated engagement – to develop your own research engagement plan
4. Identify potential impacts of stakeholder engagement in your own research.