Notes from the field: moving initiatives from isolation to collective impact to change community-engaged research practices in an academic medical system

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Figure 1. Essential conditions for collective impact.

Figure 2. Map of actors in the collective impact framework.

Table 1. Common agenda articulated through Memorandum’s of understandings (MOUs).

	Excerpts from MOUs
Common Agenda	Equity in Health Research Community Advisory Board (CAB)	Boston HealthNet (BHN) Research Collaborative
Focus research on community Priorities	Provide a pathway for community priorities to influence research questions	Partner on health related research that is a high priority from the perspective of health centers and the communities they serve
Create opportunities for bi-directional communication	Develop a role for community to advise research Provide a structure for community-researcher collaboration through all phases of the research process	Facilitate clinician engagement in the research process
Build trust	Develop trusting relationships with community to sustain and expand CABs over time	Develop meaningful partnerships with researchers
Center research on equity	Support researchers to build equity into studies from the start Identify ways to develop diversity in research participants	Generate new knowledge and translate research findings into clinical practice that will benefit the patients served
Build capacity to support community participation in research	Greater financial investment in community organizations and members	Increase career fulfillment, intellectual stimulation and learning of the BHN Research Liaisons and other health center staff through access to academic resources, training, education, and peer networks

Figure 3. Four pillars of equity Advancing equity in health research community Advisory Board rubric.