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4 Workshop 1, Session 2: Training PCOR Investigators
Pages 19-28

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From page 19...
... COLLABORATIONS FOR TRAINING COMMUNITY-BASED RESEARCHERS Nivedita Mohanty, chief research officer and director of evidence-based practice at AllianceChicago and clinical associate professor at the Feinberg School of Medicine, discussed examples of patient-centered outcomes research 19
From page 20...
... AllianceChicago has a mission of improving personal, community, and public health through innovative collaboration. Mohanty noted that community health centers are committed to whole-person care, which is why it is important that PCOR researcher training includes members of the community health center workforce in advancing patient-centered outcomes research.
From page 21...
... The CHECS program's success relies on developing capacity to support community health center investigators to build research skills to explore research ideas and helping those investigators learn how to engage teams to implement their research and further define their questions. One of the CHECS program goals is that participants who complete the program will be able to pursue funding, either alone or with a partner, to research their ideas in the context of community health centers.
From page 22...
... Mohanty added that AllianceChicago continues to offer opportunities to build partnerships, PCOR training, and capacity-building opportunities. EDUCATIONAL TRAINING FOR THE NEXT GENERATION OF INVESTIGATORS Cynthia Gonzalez, director of the Pardee RAND Graduate School's Community-Partnered Policy and Action Stream Ph.D.
From page 23...
... In addition, community faculty support knowledge dissemination by planning local conferences, presenting their work at local and national conferences, and sitting on university committees, including institutional review boards. The Pardee RAND Graduate School,4 where Gonzalez serves as the director of the community-partnered policy and action stream, is a multidisciplinary graduate program focused on policy analysis and the ways in which policy analysis shapes society that also offers a full-time Ph.D.
From page 24...
... These projects were designed to combine data-informed decisions and community engagement to develop strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, promote economic development, improve public health, engage community, and avoid displacement through data-informed decisions and community engagement. The Watts Rising Collaborative partnered with investigators to assist in data collection through neighborhood assessments.
From page 25...
... Mohanty replied that quality improvement and research both play a critical role in improving patient care and the function of health care systems. She opined that community health centers may have less difficulty conceptualizing quality improvement because they have a built-in infrastructure for it as part of clinical care and can implement change fairly rapidly.
From page 26...
... Gonzalez explained that the community faculty model stems from a partnership between an academic researcher, the late Dr. Loretta Jones, and an exceptional community in South Central Los Angeles.
From page 27...
... Gonzalez agreed that infrastructure investment can benefit sustainability, noting that while the community faculty program started with a grant, it now is embedded in courses, admissions reviews, and partnerships with other academic institutions. However, the Watts Rising Collaborative continues to rely primarily on grant funding for its work, which creates challenges around building sustainability into some projects.
From page 28...
... The solution was to connect greenhouse gas reduction with workforce development, by training residents for jobs in the green industry, such as solar panel installers.


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