Overview
Community and Stakeholder Engagement (CSE) involves working collaboratively with and through members of a specific population to address disparities and improve health.
Our goals are to build the capacity for stakeholders and community members to participate in research, and for researchers to know how to best engage stakeholders and community members in research.
Stakeholders and community members may include:
- Patients and their families
- Community leaders and staff in community-based organizations
- Health and mental health care providers, support staff, and administrators in locations like clinics, hospitals, long-term care facilities, schools, and home-based programs
- Individuals and groups paying for, purchasing, or setting policy about health.
Core Functions
- Promoting community and stakeholder engagement in research across the translational spectrum
- Integrating diverse community perspectives into research and Tufts CTSI programming through the Stakeholder Expert Panel
- Providing tools and resources for meaningful and equitable community engagement
- Addressing Asian health disparities affecting the Asian community, especially the community around the downtown Boston Tufts Health Sciences Campus
- Promoting the health and wellness of Black and Brown communities in the Greater Boston Area through trustworthy and transparent academic-community partnerships
Who is eligible?
Investigators and staff at Tufts CTSI partners and collaborators are eligible for CSE-related services.
Available Services
- Consultations
- Connections to collaborators
- Capacity-building for community partnerships, grant support, and support for systems-change initiatives
- Proposal development support
- Seminars, workshops, and symposia (available in-person or via I LEARN).
Frequently Asked Questions
- Where can I learn more about stakeholder and community-engaged research?
- Read Principles of Community Engagement (PDF), published by the Clinical and Translational Science Awards Consortium Community Engagement Key Function Committee Task Force on the Principles of Community Engagement.
- View this conversation with Drs. Jonathan Garlick and Thomas Concannon about how T1/basic researchers can use Community and Stakeholder Engagement to strengthen their research teams and impact population health (full version and highlights):
- Where can I find possible sources of funding to conduct and community and stakeholder-engaged research?
Submit a service request for a consultation on community and stakeholder engagement.
Apply for Tufts CTSI Pilot Studies Program funding.
Search for federal funding opportunities.
Subscribe to the City of Boston’s weekly Funding Update.
- Where can I find Tufts CTSI-affiliated students to partner with me to conduct community and stakeholder-engaged research?
Email the Tufts University Tisch College of Civic Life Lincoln Filene Center to post a description of your research project/internship on their website.
Contact
To contact us, please submit a service request.
Thomas W. Concannon, PhD, Co-Director, Community and Stakeholder Engagement (CSE)
Robert Sege, MD, PhD, Co-Director, Community and Stakeholder Engagement (CSE)
Hannah Santos, MBA, Program Administrative Director, Community & Stakeholder Engagement (CSE)
Noelle Weicker, MHS, Project Manager, Community & Stakeholder Engagement (CSE)