What is the Community Engagement Cluster?
The RTRN Community Engagement Cluster provides generalized input and ensure appropriate community representation in research clusters, provide assistance to health disparities researchers with regard to patient recruitment, and pursue strategies to enhance community/academic collaborations and community-based research infrastructure. The Community Engagement Cluster is responsible for establishing active community representation in research clusters and providing technical assistance to RTRN research projects with regard to participant recruitment and dissemination of research findings and information. This Community Engagement Cluster enhances the Network’s ability to inform basic researchers of potential real-world applicability and effectively translate clinical research findings to community and public health practice by ensuring that the communities being served by RTRN are involved with the planning, implementation, and evaluation of the research and by assisting RTRN researchers
