The CDU Center for Biomedical Informatics, as an extension of its research and service activities, provides a number of resources to enhance the productivity and quality of scientific research and education at CDU.
Primarily, these are software tools that assist researchers, administrators, and students in various ways.
REDCap
The Research Electronic Data Capture tool is a software application that enables the easy creation of clinical research forms, surveys, and related data-capture instruments, with automatic coupling of data entry to a back-end database from which data can be downloaded for analysis.
CDU Profiles
Also serving as the de facto CDU faculty database, the Profiles software application allows researchers to identify scientific collaborators and teachers both locally at CDU and, through linkages to the UCLA CTSI and the RCMI Translational Research Network (RTRN), regionally and nationally.
Los Angeles Data Resource
The Los Angeles Data Resource (LADR, pronounced “ladder”) is a partnership with the UCLA CTSI and other institutions that aims to create a distributed, de-identified database of operational clinical data covering all the residents of Los Angeles County.
With appropriate authorization, LADR can be used, inter alia, to establish the existence of cohorts for preparation of research grant applications; conduct epidemiologic research; count subpopulations that meet various criteria; and, through the participating partners and their health care providers, recruit subjects for clinical trials.
What Is Health Research? Animated Educational Videos
What Is Health Research? Animated videos explain health research participation in a clear, accessible way for multicultural communities, including those with limited health literacy.
Research shows that populations with limited literacy skills may be more open to visual educational materials, such as animated videos. With funding from the NIH, Dr. Sheba George at Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science, in collaboration with Health Nuts Media, developed a script based on a systematic literature review of key barriers and facilitators to minority participation in clinical research.
The animated video, What Is Health Research?, is designed to support health research literacy among low-income multicultural communities of color, including African American, Latino, Asian American, and Pacific Islander communities.
Watch the video:
- Office of Research
- Research Administration
- Research Centers
- Black Maternal Health Center of Excellence
- Center for Accelerating Excellence in Translational Science (AXIS)
- CDU/UCLA Cancer Center Partnership to Eliminate Cancer Health Disparities
- Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI)
- Clinical Research Education and Career Development (CRECD)
- Center for Biomedical Informatics
- HIV/AIDS Research – Drew CARES
- Research Centers in Minority Institutions Research Network (RTRN)
- UCLA-CDU CFAR
- Urban Health Institute
- CDU Patents
- Research Partners
- Student Research