Community Partners (CP) is engaged in identifying and addressing challenges related to participation in clinical trials. These are some examples of CP activities.

Community Partners Objectives

• Develop a community research priorities agenda.
• Utilize the Community Training Working Group to share existing CAB training materials, identify and develop new or standardized cross-network CAB training materials when there are unmet training needs or a strong rationale for standardized modules.
• CP will consider evaluation of Community Partners efforts and activities and develop and implement mechanisms to evaluate our progress and impact and serve as an advisory group to the ​Evaluation Measurement Task Force (EMTF).
• Review site-level CAB funding and support in the current grant period to identify areas where funding and support mechanisms are working well and areas where there are problems or opportunities for improvement.
• Utilize CP to provide broad input and recommendations to DAIDS for upcoming Network recompetition and restructuring process.
• Utilize CP to assist in gathering and collating information on community engagement mechanisms that are best practices across sites and share across networks.