Community and stakeholder partnership
Experts
- Prof Helena Teede
- Dr Sandy Reeder
- Leslie Arnott
- Dr Ashley Ng
- Dr Angela Jones
Resources
Platforms for Impact
“The community are the funders and beneficiaries of health care, and health and medical research. We are all the collective custodians of our health and research systems. We must work together through research and healthcare improvement, to shape our health system to best serve our community.”
Professor Helena Teede
MCHRI’s Consumer and Community Involvement (CCI) strategy is consumer and community centred. Consumers are the focus at each stage and CCI is embedded across our six research projects and networks.
All MCHRI projects are coproduced in initiation, planning, execution and translation. This optimises health outcomes as it ensures that community need and priorities are embedded in research and implementation.
Researchers work with consumers and the community to establish research questions and this guides our grant proposals. This partnership continues during the research, and as research outcomes are translated into changes in practice and policy.
The Health Research Hub
Advancing Consumer and Community Involvement in Health and Medical Research The Health Research Hub will centralise resources and foster connections among individuals working in consumer and community involvement (CCI) across Australia.
The Health Research Hub responds directly to an Australian Health Research Alliance (AHRA) priority area and addresses an evidence-based need. Development of the Health Research Hub was an iterative process consisting of co-design workshops with stakeholders where feedback was continuously synthesised and communicated back to attendees. It was also informed by a national survey involving 287 consumers, researchers, and health professionals and 70 qualitative interviews held with a range of stakeholders including researchers, consumers, Research Translation Centre CCI leads, funding bodies, health professionals, health service managers, and community organisations.
Access the Health Research Hub.
CCI is embedded in MCHRI’s 6 research areas
Consumers are reimbursed for their time and experience. To register your interest email info.mchri@monash.edu