November 15, 2023

Bringing Community-Based Organizations and Local Researchers Together
Making Connections & Supporting Community-Based Participatory Research

14th Annual Community Driven Research Day (CDRD)

Friday, February 9, 2024
9:30am – 12:30pm

Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Roberts Center
2716 South Street
1st Floor CR1120A & 1120B
Philadelphia, PA 19146

2024 CDRD theme: 

Resilient Communities: Advancing Health Together

About Community Driven Research Day: 

Community-Driven Research Day (CDRD) is a program that encourages collaboration between researchers and community-based organizations (CBOs)/community groups that have research questions they are interested in answering.

Through CDRD, Community-Based Organizations (CBOs) and community groups interested in developing partnerships to conduct research participate in an interactive rapid presentation that highlights the organization’s/group’s mission, goals, and major accomplishments, as well as display research questions that they are interested in answering about how we can advance health and equity for their community members.

To open the event, an esteemed panel of past CDRD awardees and community-driven research experts will present on effective community-academic collaborations. Following the panel discussion, CBO’s and community groups will participate in an interactive poster session to highlight research questions of interest to researchers, public sector partners, and others interested in community-academic partnerships.

The event is jointly sponsored by the following institutions: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Drexel University, Temple University College of Public Health, La Salle University, Thomas Jefferson University, and The University of Pennsylvania.

2024 Keynote Speaker:

An esteemed panel of past CDRD awardees and community-driven research experts will present on effective community-academic collaborations.

Each participating institution awards small grants to promising community partner-researcher collaborations through a competitive submission process post this event. 

Presenters - Call for Submissions from CBOs/community groups: 

CBOs and community groups interested in developing partnerships to conduct research are urged to participate in an interactive virtual poster presentation that will highlight the organization’s/group’s mission, goals, and major accomplishments. Poster/PowerPoint will also display questions that they are interested in answering about partnering for advancing health and equity.

Submissions to Present are due Friday, January 19, 2024

Non-Presenters – Register to Attend:

All non-presenting individuals interested in attending Community-Driven Research Day, including academic faculty, staff, students, community members, and representatives of non-academic institutions.

Register to Attend no later than Wednesday, January 31, 2024 

We, the CDRD committee, are committed to community-based participatory research, which includes the basic tenet that both community partners and research partners are involved in all phases of research, allowing community capacity and related opportunities to be developed and sustained. The focus of CDRD is about making connections and the CDRD organizing committee is willing to help facilitate connections.

For more information, please visit: violence.chop.edu/community-driven-research-day

Drexel contact:

Celia Macera, Proposal Development Manager 
Research Development
Office of Research & Innovation
fundingportal@drexel.edu