The ITHS offers Community–Academic Partnership awards to jump-start partnerships between community and academic investigators in new projects that generate and implement healthcare evidence in impacted communities. This award gives community organizations opportunities to initiate and help organize and lead biomedical and biobehavioral research projects addressing important health needs that they identify in the communities that they serve. Applications may either work to reduce barriers to bringing clinical studies into the community OR to improve the uptake of evidence-based interventions in the community or community clinical settings. We are especially interested in use of innovative designs that reduce participant burden in clinical studies, harness real-time wearable data or other use of technology that can be applied for remote research or clinical care (i.e. monitoring of either patient health outcomes or participant outcomes outside of the clinic), and/or which employ implementation science to assess and address barriers and facilitators to care; pilots may be focused on either generating new healthcare evidence or implementing healthcare evidence, or both. The RFA provides details regarding eligibility, the application process, and review criteria. This opportunity is open to all eligible persons regardless of race, sex or other identity.
