Our Mission
The mission of the Community Health Research Exchange is to facilitate translational research in the community through enabling partnerships and collaboration, sharing information and resources, identifying research priorities and funding, educating about community-engaged research, and hosting a speaker series.
About CHRE
Since 2009, the CHRE has convened for the purpose of building long-lasting relationships to grow, enhance, and support community-engaged research and other university-community partnered projects and activities. CHRE is comprised of community-based safety net providers; leaders from community benefit organizations that provide health services; UCI faculty, students, and providers; and is open to the public.
The CHRE meets quarterly to explore essential topics in partnered research, and understand partnered research as it relates to specific research studies taking place between university and community researchers. Research and topics presented range from conceptual, idea-generating, and resource sharing (such as an organization new to research but who has tons of data that could tell a story) to practical how-to topics (Institutional Review Board [IRB], data mining) to live examples of partnered research that demonstrate the benefits of research to community organizations, clients, patients, faculty, students, and healthcare providers.
