Research Resources

CHA 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.)

• 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.

• CHA Grants Hub: CHA has created this hub to share information about grants. CHA has developed a process for pursuing internal and external grant opportunities. The new processes seek to encourage collaboration, communication, and alignment with CHA’s mission, as well as to provide support in all requests for funding for CHA.  If you have identified an external grant opportunity, please complete this inquiry form to get started. Please see Programmatic and Research grants to learn more about these types of external funding. To learn more about the process for internal grants available at CHA, please see Internal Grants. 

• To learn more about ongoing CHA research, please visit Research at CHA which contains detailed information on our nine research centers.

HMS RESEARCH RESOURCES

Harvard Medical School authorship guidelines defines authorship and advises on order of authorship and its implementations.

• HMS Policies on academic integrity

TUSM RESEARCH RESOURCES

The Tufts University School of Medicine provides

• guidelines in writing a research/innovations in Medical Education abstract.

• guidelines for writing letters of intent/grant proposals.

• guidelines regarding IRB requirements.

PRESENTING YOUR RESEARCH

• 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