Additional Resources

Dig deeper using the tools and resources included below.

Chicago Health Atlas
Data at the neighborhood level

Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning’s (CMAP) Community Data Snapshots
Neighborhood profiles

Illinois Public Health Community Map
Information on the quality of health in Illinois communities, highlighting socioeconomic and racial/ethnic disparities

Recruitment and Retention Strategies for Minority or Poor Clinical Research Participants: Lessons From the Healthy Aging in Neighborhoods of Diversity Across the Life Span Study

Terminated Trials in the ClinicalTrials.gov Results Database: Evaluation of Availability of Primary Outcome Data and Reasons for Termination

A guide to incorporating a racial and ethnic equity perspective throughout the research process

“Leveraging Community Engagement and Informatics-Based Tools to Increase Participant Recruitment and Retention”

Presented by:

Paul A. Harris, PhD, Director, Office of Research Informatics, Professor, Department of Biomedical Informatics & Department of Biomedical Engineering Vanderbilt University

Consuelo H. Wilkins, MD, MSCI, Executive Director, Meharry-Vanderbilt Alliance

Patricia Jones, DrPH, MPH, Program Director, National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS)

Courtesy of the NIH Pragmatic Trials Collaboratory, May 2018