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Recruitment Innovation Unit (RIU) Consult

 

Our team offers advice and guidance to help investigators and research staff identify and address recruitment barriers. Our consultants have experience with technology and community-engaged recruitment strategies.

We provide recruitment support in the following areas:

This service consults and helps study teams create computable phenotypes,
which are developed based on the research study eligibility criteria within
the electronic medical record (EMR). We send recruitment invitation
messages out through Epic’s MyChart patient portal or other direct-to-patient outreach.

  • Development of recruitment plans.
  • Recruitment strategies for engaging diverse
    populations.
  • Gathering feedback from the ICTR
  • Community Research Advisory Council (CRAC).
  • Creating a recruitment timeline.
  • Publish approved reports in Epic.
  • Sends messages to potential participants.

For more information, contact Tosin Tomiwa at [email protected].

The team creates and manages social popular social media platforms.

  • Drafting a social media recruitment plan.
  • Developing feasibility queries for social media groups
    and platforms .
  • Management of social media campaigns .
  • Creating recruitment materials for social media posts
    and advertisements.
  • Develop strategies to increase enrollment and
    retention.
  • Creating a recruitment timeline.

For more information, contact Tosin Tomiwa at [email protected] or visit
https://bit.ly/socialmedia_service to sign-up for a consultation.

The team offers a no-cost customized consultation for developing and modifying recruitment plans and mitigating the recruitment barriers and
challenges to successfully meet recruitment targets.

  • Assessing the feasibility of the study team’s
    recruitment plans and methods for the target
    participant population.
  • Develop strategies to increase enrollment
    and retention.
  • Customized recruitment and retention plans.
  • Troubleshooting recruitment challenges.

For more information, contact Tosin Tomiwa
at [email protected].

We work with study teams to graphically design recruitment materials for print and digital distribution focused on engaging diverse participants from varying populations and communities.

  • Review of study recruitment graphic materials.
  • Recommendations on templates and designs best suited to potential participants.

For more information, contact Tosin Tomiwa [email protected].