Research Family Partners

Research Family Partners helps study teams engage with parent and community stakeholders to incorporate the community voice into research develop, design and execution.

Research Family Partner staff assists study teams with writing community engagement plans for grant proposals; recruiting, training and supporting families serving on research teams or in advisory council roles; providing experience incorporating the patient and family voice in research; document review; helping with providing feedback in all stages of research including dissemination to the community.

The Research Family Partners program hosts monthly Research Family Partner Advisory Committee meetings where investigators can share their ideas with a diverse group of families to gather feedback for their research.