Lee Pachter
University of Delaware, DE·Public Health & Epidemiology
Medical research does the most good when it answers the questions that matter to the people it serves, and when its findings reach clinics and communities quickly. Delaware has strong healthcare overall, but it lags other states in drug-related deaths, obesity, preventable hospitalizations, multiple chronic conditions and cancer.
- Fields
Public Health & Epidemiology
Medicine & Clinical Research
Social Science
- Topics
community engaged research
CEnR
community engagement
- Grants
- 1 known grant, through Jun 2028
What they work on
- Assist Delaware researchers working across the translational spectrum, from basic science (T0) to population health (T4), in identifying ways to include community perspectives in their studies.
- Include community voice in all ACCEL Clinical and Translational Research activities through partnerships with patients, providers, advocacy groups and policy makers.
- Provide expertise on cultural respect and research designs that improve how well findings generalize, emphasizing social and structural influences on health.
- Develop a Practice and Community-Based Research Network that connects researchers with clinical and community practice settings.
More about the research
This work focuses on community engaged research (CEnR), in which researchers and community partners work together as equals to build knowledge and improve community well-being.
Why it matters
By involving patients, providers and policy makers early, this work could help research in Delaware focus on problems such as drug-related deaths, obesity, chronic disease and cancer. It could also speed the move of findings into clinical and public health practice, benefiting Delaware residents and communities facing these conditions.
Known grants
From NIH and NSF research grants. Labs often have other funding we can't see.
Closest labs
Laura James
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, AR·Medicine & Clinical Research
Develop, demonstrate and share translational science innovations that make it easier to move research through several stages of the clinical and translational research spectrum.
Sanjay Sethi
University at Buffalo, NY·Medicine & Clinical Research
Grow existing community partnerships and build new ones across the Buffalo Translational Consortium, engaging community members in all phases of research to improve health in the region.
Cynthia Perez
University of Puerto Rico-Medical Sciences, PR·Public Health & Epidemiology
Strengthen research infrastructure and build the skills of researchers and staff through an educational program on health and healthcare research.
The school
University of Delaware: 22 labs on PI Pages, $466M a year on research, 298 research doctorates a year.
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