CONNECt Core community and clinical collaboration

CONNECt Core

Community engagement, clinical linkages, and behavioral science expertise to shape, interpret, and disseminate diabetes research for real-world impact.

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About the Core

Research shaped with people
and clinical partners.

The CONNECt Core integrates community-engaged research, clinical linkages, behavioral science, and implementation methods. Investigators receive tailored support to engage stakeholders, study multilevel determinants, interpret emerging data and AI tools, and translate findings into practical products for communities and care settings.

CommunityPartnership-driven
ClinicalPractice-connected
BehaviorTheory-informed

Services Offered

Connected support from engagement to actionable evidence

Engage Core C for community partnerships, behavioral and implementation science, multilevel methods, and co-created dissemination.

Community & Stakeholder Engagement

  • Engagement strategy & partner identification
  • Community-engaged research frameworks
  • CAB & stakeholder consultation
  • Community-campus-clinical partnerships
  • Ethical & effective engagement

Behavioral & Implementation Science

  • Behavior change theories & models
  • Implementation science frameworks
  • Socioecological approaches
  • Intervention development & adaptation
  • Adoption & sustainability strategies

Multilevel Determinants & Methods

  • Multilevel conceptual frameworks
  • Social & contextual determinants
  • Intersectional & lifecourse perspectives
  • Patient, clinic & community assessment
  • Tailored methods consultation

Co-Creation, Interpretation & Dissemination

  • Stakeholder-informed data interpretation
  • Patient & community co-creation
  • Community-informed AI applications
  • Data-clinical-community partnerships
  • Dissemination & knowledge exchange

Areas of Expertise

Connected perspectives for research that reaches people.

01Community Engagement
02Clinical Linkages
03Behavior Change
04Implementation Science
05Mixed Methods
06Dissemination

Core Experts

Experts connecting research with communities

Connect with specialists in community engagement, clinical care, behavior change, mixed methods, and dissemination.

How to Request Services

From request to
research partnership

Share your engagement, clinical linkage, behavioral, or dissemination need. Core C will connect you with the right partners and methods.

Start a Consultation Request
01

Submit your request

Share your project goals and the type of support you need.

02

Meet with the core

Discuss priorities, timing, methods, and collaborators.

03

Build a support plan

Define the scope, milestones, and consultation approach.

04

Continue together

Receive ongoing guidance throughout the project.