Ethics and IRB: Sharing best practices and lessons learned in working with community partners engaged in research

There is an increasing amount of partnerships developing between community and university partners engaged in health research. Community partners face numerous time, educational, and institutional barriers when collaborating in research with academic institutions. To decrease some of these hurdles, we have developed various tools including a training module and workbook entitled "Ethical Protections Training for Community Partners Engaged in Research." Through sharing our lessons learned, best practices will be highlighted which have streamlined and improved the IRB approval process of community-partnered research and increased community partners knowledge around human subjects protections in research.