About PRIMER
Partnership-driven Resources to IMprove and Enhance Research (PRIMER)
The PRIMER project was funded through an administrative supplement to the University of Washington's Institute for Translational Health Sciences Clinical and Translational Sciences Award (CTSA) UL1 RR025014 from the NIH National Center for Research Resources (NCRR).
PRIMER is endorsed by the Community Engagement (CE) Key Function Committee (KFC) of the CTSA consortium and is a joint project involving representatives from the University of Washington’s Institute for Translational Health Science, the Duke Clinical Research Institute, and Wayne State University.
The PRIMER team includes researchers from Practice-Based Research Networks and the HMO Research Network. These networks conduct interdisciplinary research and strive to rapidly move findings into clinical and community practice settings. Drawing from prior experiences and collaboration tools used or developed by the HMO Research Network (HMORN) and Practice Based Research Networks (PBRN), the goals of this project were to:
1) Define critical infrastructure needs for CTSA and PBRN researchers through a web-based survey that fielded in March 2009.
2) Collect and adapt existing resources from PBRNs, CTSA Institutes, the HMO Research Network and other sources to create and disseminate a Research Toolkit, Version 1.0
3) Identify gaps and opportunities to develop additional resources, and report these recommendations to the CE KFC and NCRR.
Team Members
Sarah M. Greene, MPH (Group Health Research Institute, HMO Research Network)
Laura-Mae Baldwin, MD MPH (University of Washington)
Rowena Dolor, MD MHS (Duke University)
Anne Victoria Neale, MD MPH (Wayne State University)
Ella E. Thompson, BS (Group Health Research Institute, HMO Research Network)
Gail Christianer, MA (Group Health Research Institute)
