CGREAL RESOURCE CORES
These cores are available
to assist investigators develop and conduct their collaborative
projects.
Research Assistance Core
Research assistants support the work of the CGREAL research groups through literature searches, bibliographic support, and quantitative and qualitative research design and data collection, including
focus groups, interviews, and surveys.
The CGREAL Research Assistance Core also hosts a unique partnership with the National Library of Medicine's National Reference Center for Bioethics Literature at Georgetown's Kennedy Institute of Ethics and its National Information Resource on Ethics and Human Genetics.
Georgetown research staff provide dedicated research services at the Reference Center and the NLM. They also serve as the CGREAL's local observers inside the Beltway by attending and reporting to us on federal meetings relevant to our mission.
Measurement & Analysis Core
This group provides CGREAL investigators
with methodological expertise on the design of interviews, focus
groups, and questionnaire studies, the development of new psychological
measurements, and biostatistical analysis.
Community Dialogue Core
This core provides CGREAL investigators with expert advice and consultation on the design and conduct of community engagement exercises. It helps CGREAL investigators design and trouble-shoot new community dialogues as they become indicated by our research.
Regulatory/Legal Core
Under the leadership of Jessica Berg, this core provides CGREAL investigators with expert advice on the implications of current institutional policies, federal research regulations, and the HIPAA legislation for our own empirical studies of the genetic research process. Investigations of participation in genetic research are often more legally and ethically complicated than the genetic research itself, as many social scientists interested in studying biomedical research participation have discovered . Issues of privacy, consent, deception, and disclosure challenge the design of the research the CGREAL seeks to pursue. The regulatory/legal team is available to advise CGREAL investigators on their research designs prior to submission to the CWRU Institutional Review Board and on an ongoing basis throughout the research trial.
Genetics/Genomics Core
This group provides non-scientific CGREAL investigators with expert consultation on technical issues in genetics and genomics, help review publications for scientific accuracy and currency, and help identify potential scientific collaborators within the larger genetics and genomics community.
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