title: Relationships hold the key to trustworthy and productive translational science: recommendations for expanding community engagement in biomedical research.
abstract: Good relationships between research institutions and communities are an essential, but often neglected, part of the infrastructure of translational science. In an effort to create greater interest among translational science researchers in cultivating relationships with community members, we report the results of a workshop we convened to learn how relationships vital to research are best created and sustained. We highlight common barriers and challenges that hinder relationships. We also provide recommendations that individual research institutions and teams can use to expand and strengthen their relationships with community members. The improved relationships between universities and communities that could result from their implementation should build greater public trust in biomedical research, lead to a stronger commitment to see it succeed, and engender shared values and commitments that will give rise to new rewards, recognition and admonishment to sustain those values and commitments over time, all of which would facilitate translational science.
authors.affiliation: Bioethics Program, University of California Davis Medical School, Sacramento, California, USA. mark.yarborough@ucdmc.ucdavis.edu
authors.forename: Mark
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Yarborough
authors.forename: Kelly
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Edwards
authors.forename: Paula
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Espinoza
authors.forename: Gail
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Geller
authors.forename: Alok
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sarwal
authors.forename: Richard
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Sharp
authors.forename: Paul
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Spicer
mesh_terms: D055812:Community-Based Participatory Research; D003159:Community-Institutional Relations; D004493:Education; D057170:Translational Research, Biomedical; D035502:Trust
keywords: ethics; translational research
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