Community Health: Assessment and Improvement Measures Program Partnership Development Award

The goal of Mayo Clinic's Center for Clinical and Translational Science (CCaTS) CHAMP Partnership Development Award is to support community-academic partnership activities needed for research engagement.

The CHAMP Partnership Development Award supports two-year projects in which community partners or research teams work in tandem with CCaTS' Community-Engaged Research Program to help with partnership identification, development, project planning or a combination thereof. Applications may be submitted by community partners, such as community-based organizations and patient advocacy groups, or by academic partners (Mayo Clinic researchers).

CHAMP Partnership Development Awards are intended for community partners who would like to build partnerships with Mayo Clinic researchers to address health priorities or Mayo Clinic research teams that are looking to translate existing work to the community or looking to build new research relationships. Research teams must have a clear idea of the type of community partners they would like to develop and the community health priority to be addressed.

The purpose of the two-year award is to allow phased establishment of partnerships and infrastructure (year 1) and completion of the research objectives (year 2). During year 1, the investigators may request to work closely with CCaTS Community Engagement staff.

The goal is that by the end of the two-year project period, the community-academic research team would be ready to submit the project for funding either through the CHAMP Research Award, another institutional research award or extramurally.