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.
A collaborative partnership
The Center for Public Health has been a part of Community Driven Research day since 2010.
The annual 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.
Register for the 2025 Community Driven Research Day
The next Community Driven Research Day will hold on Tuesday March 11, 2025. Registration is required.
Presenter RegistrationCommunity Driven Research Day Information
Through CDRD, Community-Based Organizations (CBOs) and community groups interested in developing partnerships to conduct research participate in an interactive rapid presentation that highlights their mission, goals, and major accomplishments and displays research questions to address health equity and social determinants of health in their communities.
The 2025 Community-Driven Research Day will be held on Tuesday March 11 in Philadelphia. Highlights of the event include a panel of past CDRD awardees and community-driven research experts presenting on effective community-academic collaborations. Following the panel discussion, CBOs 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.
Questions?
Please reach out to PennCPH@pennmedicine.upenn.edu.
Event Location:
CDRD will be held in the Jordan Medical Education Center Atrium at 3400 Civic Center Boulevard, Philadelphia, PA 19104.
Key Dates
February 18, 2025: Deadline for CDRD presenters
March 4 2025: Deadline for registration for non-presenters
March 11, 2025: Community Driven Research Day
March 25, 2025: Research Readiness Day
Community-based participatory research
We 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.
Small grants are awarded to promising community partner-researcher collaborations annually through a competitive submission process.