Research Resources
Research Resources for Mobile Healthcare Programs and Researchers
Strong mobile healthcare research starts with the right question, the right partners, and a clear plan for protecting people and using what is learned.
GMHRC created these resources to help mobile program leaders and researchers plan useful studies, build equitable partnerships, choose meaningful measures, and navigate research requirements. Each resource is designed for the realities of care delivered in mobile and community settings.
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Mobile Clinic Research Readiness Assessment
Assess your program's goals, capacity, data, partnerships, and research safeguards. Leave with clear next steps.
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Mobile Clinic Outcomes and Measures Library
Choose measures that show whom your program reaches, what care it delivers, what changes for patients, and what it takes to sustain the work.
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Community-Based Health Research Partnerships: Why Consider Mobile Clinics
For researchers with a question about a condition, population, or method who are looking for a community-based partner and have not yet considered mobile care.
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How Researchers Can Partner With Mobile Clinics
Plan research that respects community priorities, mobile clinic operations, staff capacity, and local expertise.
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How Mobile Program Leaders Can Partner With Researchers
Find the right research partner, define roles, protect your program and community, and make sure the findings are useful.
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Engaging Communities Across the Whole Research Process
Involve community leaders and members in setting the question, designing the study, interpreting findings, and returning results in a form people can use.
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Research Ethics and Community Engagement Principles
Apply practical principles for respect, shared decision-making, fair participation, community benefit, and accountability.
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Data Privacy and Data-Sharing Standards
Use a clear process for collecting, accessing, transferring, analyzing, reporting, retaining, and destroying research data.
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IRB for Beginners
Understand when Institutional Review Board review may be needed, how quality improvement differs from research, and what to prepare before submitting a project.
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Research Methods for Mobile Health Programs
Tell evaluation, quality improvement, and research apart, write a research plan, and match a study design to the claim you need to make.
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What Data Do You Already Have, and Is It Good Enough?
Take stock of what your program already collects, judge completeness and consistency, and decide what to do when quality falls short.
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Data Dictionaries for Mobile Health Programs
Write down what each field means, so a research partner can build a study on measures you already collect instead of adding new ones.
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Getting Your Data Out of a Health System EHR
Practical routes when your records live in a parent organization's system, including self-service reporting, quality teams, and community benefit obligations.
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Research should strengthen the people and programs involved
The best research does more than produce a paper. It helps mobile healthcare programs improve care, helps communities answer questions that matter to them, and gives funders and policymakers credible evidence for action.