The Partner Engagement Guide can help you identify and meaningfully engage communities and partners for your research or intervention.

How Can This Help?

The guide and worksheet can be completed by an individual or team, walking users through how to:

• Engage communities and partners to improve research and program quality

How Can You Use This?

• Researchers looking to incorporate community or partner engagement in a meaningful way, but aren’t sure where to start.
• Implementation Scientists looking for recommendations on how to identify and meaningfully engage with partners in research.
• Providers who want to engage partners in a meaningful way to understand the community’s health needs, and design, provide, and evaluate healthcare services.
• Trainers and Implementation Specialists who want to teach others how to engage partners.

When Should You Use This

The guide can be used at the beginning of the planning phase to identify and engage partners who will then help to plan, execute, and report on the study.