Research Resources

• Members of the Institutional Review Board (IRB) at CHA are available to help you develop a protocol or informed consent form, provide a research education and training program, help interpret how certain regulations apply to a specific research study and answer questions about IRB forms.
• The CHA Office of Sponsored Research (OSR) provides research administrative support to CHA researchers who are applying for, or who have been awarded, a contract or a grant from a state, federal, or commercial entity or a public or private foundation.
• CHA is a participating institution of the Harvard Catalyst. The organization serves faculty and trainees across all Harvard schools and affiliate academic healthcare centers and provides a vast array of exceptional research resources to investigators. (CHA faculty are reminded to update their Harvard Catalyst profiles.)
• CHA Research Guidance
  • Our guide titled "Pursuing grant funded research at CHA" provides advice to CHA researchers on proposals, choosing a PI+/-co-PI and research team, scoping potential grantors, IRB review, CHA resource requirements, sign-offs, budgeting, sources for advice and suggestions once your grant is funded.
  • Grant Application Approval process when your study may use CHA staff or material resources.
    • Grant Review Form
  • Policy on outside researcher subject recruitment/data sharing
• Here are samples of successful NIH grant applications.
• The CHA Medical Libraries has a variety of resources including journal searches, research databases, literature search requests and more. Please note: the CHA Medical Library webpage may require CHA login. You can also search Library in Staffnet.
• To learn more about ongoing CHA research, please visit Research at CHA which contains detailed information on our nine research centers.

Presenting Your Research

Here are examples of PowerPoint presentations that accompanied DOM fellows' and residents' 10-minute oral presentations at national Society of General Internal Medicine (SGIM) meetings. Parenthetically, of the hundreds of SGIM presentations each year, 3-5 are conferred Lipkin or Homolsky awards. CHA fellows and residents have won 5 of these awards over just a few years' time. No other hospital in the US has such a record!

Below are samples of examplary CHA research poster presentations displayed at the annual CHA Academic Poster Session and at national conferences:

• Conducting Trauma-Informed Data Collection
  Carolyn F. Fischer, PhD and Ranjani K. Paradise, PhD (Institute for Community Health)
• Knowing is Seeing: Biography Cards to Facilitate Students Seeing Patients in Obstetrics and Gynecology
  Tara A. Singh, MD, Kathleen F. Harney, MD, Allison E. Seitchik, PhD, John L. Dalrymple, MD, and David A. Hirsh, MD, FACP
• Care for America’s Elderly and Disabled Relies on Immigrant Labor
  Leah Zallman, MD, MPH, Karen Finnegan, PhD, David Himmelstein, MD, Sharon Touw, MPH and Steffie Woolhandler, MD, MPH.

To learn more on presenting your research as an academic poster, please visit the Academic Poster-Making session (April 2022) by Carolyn Fisher PhD, Research & Evaluation Project Manager, Institute for Community Health (ICH).

Poster-making resources include the PowerPoint:

• CHA-HMS template
• CHA-Tufts template