Capacity Building

• Build the capacity of communities and researchers to partner in the research enterprise
  
• Increase cultural awareness and community engagement skills among researchers in networks  and sites most challenged in recruiting Black and Latino participants
  
• Increase representation of minority researchers within networks and sites with the least diversity
  
• Increase scientific literacy among Black and Latino communities most impacted by the epidemic

Engagement & Collaboration

• Facilitate community involvement throughout the research process
  
• Increase knowledge in communities about research, biomedical interventions, and safety issues
  
• Decrease barriers related to participation in clinical trials
  
• Facilitate partnerships between sites and national and community organizations
  Research
  
• Influence the creation of scientific agendas and science that is responsive to community priorities
• Conduct and support primary research on community engagement and clinical trial participation and the relationship between them
  
• Review network governance to understand generation of scientific agendas and protocols to determine processes that support and/or hinder input
  
• Produce manuscripts and materials targeting scientific community and funders focused on the utility of community participation and engagement
  
• Develop research priorities germinating from priority populations
  
• Evaluate key opinion leader approach to community engagement to determine if it results in different levels of community engagement in research compared to direct community marketing campaigns
  
• Inform NIH research priorities, trial protocols, and target population focus domestically

Research & Evaluation

• Demonstrate Legacy’s impact and effectiveness
  
• Monitor and evaluate Legacy programs, initiatives, and activities