1st Thursday of the month Office Hours hosted by: CTSI Recruitment and Engagement

The Recruitment Innovation Center (RIC) provides Duke’s clinical research community with the resources necessary to support efficient and effective study enrollment using strategic planning, data-driven tactics, and informatics-based tools. The RIC has developed a repository of useful tools and resources to support research teams in the design and execution of clinical studies that can successfully achieve recruitment targets.

RIC’s one-on-one consultation services include:

• Feasibility assessments through data-driven cohort discovery
• Collaborator identification and partnership facilitation
• Strategic recruitment and retention planning
• Strategic protocol design and development
• Strategic social marketing and communications planning
• Data-driven analytics
• Community and patient engagement
• Training and education  on recruitment planning and budgeting for recruitment

CTSI recognizes that collaborating with the community in research is the foundation of improving public health. The goals of community engagement are to increase public trust in the research enterprise and to improve overall public health.

In support of Community Engagement, Duke is:

• Working in the Durham, NC community to improve local health (link is external)  
• Examining methods of improving diabetes outcomes in the southeast (link is external)region of the United States 
• Serving as national leaders in training investigators in community engagement (link is external)
• Working with health care providers and the community in Kannapolis, NC to create a registry and longitudinal health study (link is external)