Community Engagement in Research and Practice

Authentic community engagement is a cornerstone for biomedical research and practice. Community engagement often is presented as a strategy to build trust with communities disenfranchised by medicine and research toward increasing research representation and reducing access disparities. Yet, so often community engagement focuses on recruitment and dissemination. While community engagement can take many forms across a range of commitments, when viewed across research and implementation lifecycles, it can also set research priorities, shape procedures and trajectories, maximize impact, minimize risk of social harms, and center community’s power and autonomy. This episode introduces the rationale and relevance of community engagement, provides examples of the spectrum of community engagement from genomics, and suggests guiding questions for researchers and clinicians as they consider incorporating community engagement into their research and or practice. After viewing this lecture, participants should be able to: 1. Describe the relevance of community engagement for research and practice. 2. Identify different approaches across the spectrum of community engagement. 3. Assess the potential relevance of community engagement for your research and practice. Joon-Ho Yu, MD, MPH Research Assistant Professor, Genetic Medicine; Bioethics and Palliative Care, UW Pediatrics Dept. Adjunct Research Assistant Professor, UW Bioethics and Humanities Dept. Assistant Research Professor, UW Epidemiology Dept. Principal Investigator, Treuman Katz Center for Pediatric Bioethics, Seattle Children's Research Institute Associate Director, Institute for Public Health Genetics, UW School of Public Health 10/23/24 The University of Washington is committed to ensuring digital accessibility in our services, programs, and activities. If you encounter accessibility barriers using videos found on this channel, please contact UW Video at uwvideo [at] uw [dot] edu.