The Community Health Improvement Core provides leadership and guidance that will help the NIH Pragmatic Trials Collaboratory, its trials and investigators, and ultimately the research community at-large, conduct research that can improve the health of all populations. Their work includes supporting PCTs to address gaps in access to quality care, implementing patient and community engagement strategies, and developing person- and community-centered research and translation methods that are contextually aligned.

Core goals:

• Support and document ways to help pragmatic trials be widely conducted across the United States in a variety of health systems and communities, including in rural areas.
• Examine strategies to effectively and efficiently implement evidence-based interventions and guidelines across “real world” settings to improve the health of all populations.
• Explore methods to make sure pragmatic research, including outcomes selected, is relevant to the people affected by the disease or condition being studied.