Community
Research with our community, not just about it.
The people we care for know things about emergency care that researchers do not.
Direction
What they know
- Where the system fails them.
- What gets in the way of follow-up.
- Which problems are worth solving first.
We want that knowledge shaping our work from the start.
The goal
Real members of our research teams
Our goal is for patients and community members to serve as real members of our research teams: helping choose questions, design studies, interpret results, and decide what gets put into practice.
- Community members
- Researchers and clinicians
- The research team, one ring per role
4 of 4 roles
Where we start from
Research that already begins outside the hospital
Some of our work already looks past the hospital doors: at neighborhoods and streets, at violence in communities, and at emergency care beyond Charlottesville.
Built environments
How the places people live and move shape injury and health.
Violence prevention
Counting gun violence where local reporting is thin.
Global health
Emergency care and data science beyond Charlottesville.
The next step
We are building toward that.
We are planning a community visioning charrette: a working session where community members, patients, clinicians, and researchers will design together how that partnership should work.
If you’d like to be part of it, or to help shape it, we’d like to hear from you.
Get in touch
Talk with us
Whether you’d like to take part in the charrette or have a question you think research should answer, write to us here.