For The Community

The mission of the Penn State Clinical and Translational Research Institute is to work collaboratively with community organizations, health care providers, and individuals to study how to best improve the health of our community. Partnering with members of our community is important because health and health behavior are affected by the social and physical environment. Getting input from members of our community is important, and will allow our research programs to generate information that is relevant to the real world. Educating the public about new research findings is also a goal of the CTSI. To find out more about our programs, and how you can participate, please follow these links:

 

Education

Educating yourself about healthy lifestyles and about medical conditions is one of the best ways to help manage your health and avoid complications that can interfere with your activities of daily life. Being informed is the best way to make the right decisions concerning your health and medical treatment. Penn State offers a variety of …

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Outreach

Penn State believes that getting community members engaged in finding solutions to issues that affect them is one of the fundamental principles of public health. Community engagement means involving community members in ALL activities–from identifying the relevant issues and making decisions about how to address them, to evaluating and sharing the results with the community. …

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Volunteering for Research Studies

Clinical research studies are biomedical or health-related research studies in human beings that follow specific guidelines. In some research studies, participants are assigned by the investigator to a treatment or other intervention, and their outcomes are measured. In other studies, participants may be complete a questionnaire, give a blood sample or mouth swab, or merely …

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