Health research changes lives. Participating is a way to help others by "giving forward," and it's also an opportunity to learn more about your own health.
The five-year, $3.2 million project called Communities Helping the Hearing of Infants by Reaching Parents, or CHHIRP, aims to improve the process of timely access to diagnostic tests by pairing families with patient navigators.
Evangelia Kalaitzoglou, MD, an assistant professor of pediatrics and KL2 Scholar at University of Kentucky (UK), spent two days in Indiana as part of the Spring 2019 KL2 Visiting Scholar Exchange between Indiana CTSI and UK CTSA.
Lori Gresham, informatics project manager for the HEALing Communities Study to reduce opioid deaths, was presented with a congratulatory collection of CCTS-related items.
The program trains undergraduate students from underrepresented backgrounds how to conduct health equity research. Participants develop and implement a project in their home communities and are compensated for their work.
Aime Kunes, PhD, volunteered to participate in a research study so that she could become a better researcher herself. But a routine test discovered an abnormality.