Engagement, Inclusion, Recruitment, and Retention in Research Studies: Recruitment Assistance for Study Teams

Recruitment and Retention is a free service offered through NC TraCS. Get help with recruitment and retention at any phase in the lifecycle of a research study or clinical trial. We offer consultations, tailored recommendations, professional development, and customized services to help you meet your recruitment goals and to retain participants through study completion.

To schedule your free consultation with a Recruitment Specialist, please request a consult via the NC TraCS website.

To learn more about Recruitment and Retention Services, please visit https://tracs.unc.edu/index.php/services/recruitment-services or contact Emily Olsson at emolsson@unc.edu or 919-966-6274

Community and Stakeholder Engagement is a service of NC TraCS, offering both free and fee-based resources to help build partnerships between communities, researchers, and health care providers. CaSE can help facilitate engagement between researchers and community partners to guide study design and execution, assist with novel approaches to engagement and implementation sciences, and provide expertise on best practices of stakeholder-engaged research.

To learn more or schedule a consultation, please visit https://tracs.unc.edu/index.php/services/engagement/engagement.

Inclusive Science Program (formerly "Integrating Special Populations") is a free service of NC TraCS. ISP can provide investigators with access to experts, resources, and education to facilitate study design and execution with a specific consideration for the inclusion of diverse and historically underrepresented populations in research.

To learn more or schedule a consultation, please visit https://tracs.unc.edu/index.php/services/inclusive-science-program.

The Research Coordination and Management Unit is a fee-based service offered through NC TraCS. The RCMU offers experienced coordinators to investigators and can be utilized to perform full study management, to assist with specific study components, or to fill-in for regular staff as needed.

To learn more or schedule a consultation, please visit http://rcmu.tracs.unc.edu/

Informatics and Data Science is a service of NC TraCS, offering both free and fee-based resources to support study teams with innovative technology and advanced analytics. IDSci can provide you with everything from datasets, to curated patient lists for contact, to custom builds to expand Epic research capability, in addition to many other tools.

To learn more or schedule a consultation, please visit http://tracs.unc.edu/index.php/services/informatics-and-data-science.

The Office of Research Support and Compliance is part of the UNC Health Care System and acts as a liaison between research teams and UNC Health Care entities and the UNC Physicians Network. The office’s website https://unchcs.intranet.unchealthcare.org/dept/ORSC/Pages/default.aspx is available to those working for the university who have access to EPIC and to UNC Health Care System (UNCHCS) network entities (UNC Physicians Network and our HCS community partners and hospitals). ORSC has varying contracts in place with each site and Project Managers on site at the entity locations to help navigate research relationships.

If you are interested in partnering with a UNC Entity or UNCPN site for your research, please contact Diane Powers at diane.powers@unchealth.unc.edu or 984-974-1247.

The UNC Health Sciences Library has a dedicated Community Engagment and Health Literacy Librarian, Terri Ottosen. She can provide assistance with material evaluation, study messaging, health literacy assessments, and health communication methodology.

To learn more or to contact Terri, please visit https://guides.lib.unc.edu/healthliteracy or email her at ottosen@email.unc.edu