Database Analysis Core
Offers education, consultation, and programming support on capabilities, access, and appropriate use of large publicly available health-related datasets for the purposes of developing hypotheses for health research, guiding policy choices, or documenting community health concerns. Contact: amy.j.graves@vanderbilt.edu.

Human Factors and Systems Safety Core
Provides training and assistance in observing and analyzing human factors involved in both individual clinical tasks and complex health systems in order to improve patient safety and provider and system efficiency in health care delivery. Contact:christine.goldsberry@vanderbilt.edu.

Qualitative Research Core
Offers consultative services, equipment, and facilitation to support investigators planning to conduct qualitative studies, with a particular focus on use of structured and semi-structured interviews, web-based collection of qualitative data, direct observation of behavior, and focus groups. Contact: kemberlee.bonnet@vanderbilt.edu.

CTSA SUPPORTED CORES

Meharry-Vanderbilt Community Engaged Research Core (CERC)
Offers consultation, infrastructure and support services to facilitate community engagement in clinical and translational research. Services include consultations with faculty experienced in community engaged methods of research, Community Review Boards, training on community engagement strategies, and connections to potential community partners. CERC is also working to develop a middle Tennessee practice-based research network. Contact: yvonne.joosten@vanderbilt.edu.

Effective Health Communication Core
Provides consultation on aspects of research study design, informed consent, patient recruitment, measurement, data collection, quantitative and qualitative analysis, and manuscript preparation related to health literacy, numeracy, cross-cultural communication and mobile device or internet-based communication. Contact: kathryn.m.goggins@Vanderbilt.Edu