RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Health Extension and Clinical and Translational Science: An Innovative Strategy for Community Engagement
JF The Journal of the American Board of Family
                Medicine
JO J Am Board Fam Med
FD American Board of Family Medicine
SP 94
OP 99
DO 10.3122/jabfm.2017.01.160119
VO 30
IS 1
A1 Arthur Kaufman
A1 Robert L. Rhyne
A1 Juliana Anastasoff
A1 Francisco Ronquillo
A1 Marnie Nixon
A1 Shiraz Mishra
A1 Charlene Poola
A1 Janet Page-Reeves
A1 Carolina Nkouaga
A1 Carla Cordova
A1 Richard S. Larson
YR 2017
UL http://www.jabfm.org/content/30/1/94.abstract
AB Health Extension Regional Officers (HEROs) through the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center (UNMHSC) help to facilitate university-community engagement throughout New Mexico. HEROs, based in communities across the state, link priority community health needs with university resources in education, service, and research. Researchers' studies are usually aligned with federal funding priorities rather than with health priorities expressed by communities. To help overcome this misalignment, the UNM Clinical and Translational Science Center (CTSC) provides partial funding for HEROs to bridge the divide between research priorities of UNMHSC and health priorities of the state's communities. A bidirectional partnership between HEROs and CTSC researchers was established, which led to: 1) increased community engaged studies through the CTSC, 2) the HERO model itself as a subject of research, 3) a HERO-driven increase in local capacity in scholarship and grant writing, and 4) development of training modules for investigators and community stakeholders on community-engaged research. As a result, 5 grants were submitted, 4 of which were funded, totaling $7,409,002.00, and 3 research articles were published. Health extension can serve as a university-funded, community-based bridge between community health needs and Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) research capacity, opening avenues for translational research.