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Recruitment and Retention Core
NIH Guidelines for the purpose of the recruitment and retention of minorities and women into clinical studies across the entire spectrum of biomedical and behavioral research will be followed by the outreach component of the GCRC. The outreach component of the GCRC consists of the Director of Recruitment and Retention of Minorities and Women and the Recruitment Specialist who will assist as follows:
- Understand the study population: Identify the potential research participants, the medical settings in which they are found, and/or the community in which they reside. This may require an assessment of racial/ethnic characteristics, socioeconomic status, age, access (sites of intervention), and needs and values of the potential research participants, including seeking health care.
- Establish explicit goals: To determined the scientific question(s) for investigation and the study design, establish specific goals for recruiting and retaining minorities and women.
- Outreach Activities: Outreach will take place at churches, health care facilities, health fairs, community based organization, schools etc... The education specialists will schedule lectures, forums, workshops and in-service training at the above noted community locations for investigators.
- Design and Conduct Evaluations: Design and implement an evaluation plan to assess the efficacy of recruitment and retention strategies.
- Establish and maintain communication: Establish mechanisms for keeping all those involved in the study (research staff, health care providers, participants and their families and communities) apprised of progress and study findings.
- Implement and design professional recruitment plans for all protocols submitted to the GCRC.
- Research demographic breakdowns for all submitted protocols and submit detailed data in table format.
- Schedule and conduct monthly tours of the GCRC Stony Brook facility.
- Assist in the preparing of reports, questionnaires, and other forms as needed.
- Aggressive recruitment of all cultural groups for all GCRC Stony Brook facility protocols based on demographic breakdown needs.
- Assist all protocol investigators with the designing, and implementation of promotional study campaigns.
- Coordinate professional exhibitions of GCRC Stony Brook facility services, protocols, and contributions at university and community forums
- Develop, prepare and secure IRB approvals, and maintain on file “FACT SHEETS” for all protocols.
- Establish and maintain mechanisms for keeping all individuals involved in protocol studies apprised of progress and study findings
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