Learning from Community-Academic Partnership Success Stories
Posted by NIH Community Engagement Alliance on December 3, 2024
An essential element of community-engaged research is the inclusion of local people —those who could benefit from or be affected by the research. To do this effectively, academic and research institutions must first lay a firm foundation of cooperation and trust in their communities. They can do this by developing partnerships to address immediate and community-identified needs and build relationships that set the institution and the community up for success in future community-engaged research projects.
West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine (WVSOM) knows something about this. The school was founded more than 50 years ago to help fill the need for doctors in West Virginia’s rural communities. Continuing in its mission to serve the state’s rural residents, WVSOM founded the Center for Rural and Community Health (CRCH) in 2010 with the mission to “empower communities to reach their highest level of health and wellness through evidence-based community-engaged outreach, education and research.”
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