Main Deborah S, Felzien Maret C, Magid David J, Calonge B Ned, O'Brien Ruth A, Kempe Allison, Nearing Kathryn
University of Colorado Denver, USA.
Prog Community Health Partnersh. 2012 Fall;6(3):381-7. doi: 10.1353/cpr.2012.0036.
National growth in translational research has increased the need for practical tools to improve how academic institutions engage communities in research.
One used by the Colorado Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute (CCTSI) to target investments in community-based translational research on health disparities is a Community Engagement (CE) Pilot Grants program. Innovative in design, the program accepts proposals from either community or academic applicants, requires that at least half of requested grant funds go to the community partner, and offers two funding tracks: One to develop new community-academic partnerships (up to $10,000), the other to strengthen existing partnerships through community translational research projects (up to $30,000).
We have seen early success in both traditional and capacity building metrics: the initial investment of $272,742 in our first cycle led to over $2.8 million dollars in additional grant funding, with grantees reporting strengthening capacity of their community- academic partnerships and the rigor and relevance of their research.
转化研究在全国范围内的发展增加了对实用工具的需求，以改善学术机构与社区在研究中的合作方式。
科罗拉多临床与转化科学研究所（CCTSI）用于针对健康差异方面基于社区的转化研究进行投资的一种方法是社区参与（CE）试点资助计划。该计划在设计上具有创新性，接受社区或学术申请人的提案，要求申请的资助资金至少一半流向社区合作伙伴，并提供两条资助途径：一条用于建立新的社区-学术伙伴关系（最高10,000美元），另一条用于通过社区转化研究项目加强现有伙伴关系（最高30,000美元）。
我们在传统指标和能力建设指标方面都取得了早期成功：在第一个周期中最初投入272,742美元，带来了超过280万美元的额外资助资金，受资助者报告称其社区-学术伙伴关系的能力以及研究的严谨性和相关性都得到了加强。
