Learn to design and evaluate meaningful strategies to engage interest holders.

Engaging a wide range of individuals and organizations in your research is the best way to have a greater impact on health outcomes. To do that effectively, it’s crucial to have plan to engage these groups and measure your success.

Developed in collaboration with RAND Corporation, this course introduces researchers and research partners to the concepts behind creating meaningful interest holder engaged research. Researchers can use this course to prepare engagement plans for their funding proposals. Research teams, including researchers and partners, may use this course as preparation for working together on new research programs.

Learn how to identify and invite relevant interest holders, develop meaningful engagement plans, and evaluate engagement in your research. Learners will come away from this course with resources they can use to help design future engaged research.

Note: "Interest holders" is a new term that has been adopted to replace the term “stakeholders.” Further reading on this proposed terminology is available online.

Learning Objectives

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

• Identify relevant interest holders in your own research.
• Apply principles and insights from the Tufts-RAND 7Ps model to develop your own interest holder engagement plan.
• Describe a process for evaluating the potential impacts of interest holder engagement in your own research.