Sample stakeholder engagement publications, toolkits, and video presentations
PUBLICATION
The Power of the Personal: Breaking Down Stereotypes and Building Human Connections
This article explores "the power of the personal” in meetings with community stakeholders — sharing personal stories and values with one another — to move past limiting stereotypes and build real connections that advance effective, meaningful research.
PUBLICATION
A Case Study of Engaging Hard-to-Reach Participants in the Research Process
This article provides a detailed description of the innovative service, Community Advisors on Research Design and Strategies (CARDS)®. We describe the participants in the program, processes that ensure productive meetings between the CARDS® and researchers, and the outcomes of the program for researchers and the CARDS®.
TOOLKIT
How to Recruit and Retain Patient Stakeholders: An Engagement Guide (HARPS)
HARPS is a planning roadmap for researchers and others who want to engage patient stakeholders as advisors on research projects. It contains a fillable workbook that uses 10 guiding questions and supplemental Appendices to help develop ideas and plans for successful engagement of stakeholders.
TOOLKIT
Patient Advisor Toolkit 1: Orientation for Patient Advisory Committees (PAT-1)
PAT-1 is a comprehensive set of modifiable resources for conducting an orientation with patient or community stakeholders. The toolkit provides a complete, step-by-step guide to preparing lay advisors effectively used their lived experience to advise research teams.
VIDEO PRESENTATION
Conducting Focus Group Research or Stakeholder Activities
in the New Virtual World
COVID has driven many research and stakeholder engagement activities into the virtual world. This video provides an overview of best practices related to conducting stakeholder meetings, focus groups and other activities using online platforms, such as Zoom.
PUBLICATION
Patient Engaged Research: Choosing the "Right" Patients to Avoid Pitfalls
This report is published by the Hastings Center.
"Including patients’ perspectives in the design and conduct of clinical research is thought to be useful for aligning health care with patients’ needs and priorities. But which patients are engaged—and which should be? Engaging the “wrong” patients might even be detrimental."