Help Us Discover

Although the majority of patients recognize the benefits of participating in clinical research, recruiting study subjects remains a major roadblock to successful completion of a clinical trial. Recognizing that researchers need help in attracting volunteers, YCCI is launching a series of new services and initiatives that will leverage Yale’s electronic health records (EHRS) to recruit potential research subjects; vastly improve subjects’ experience; utilize a unique and novel advertising venue; and provide support for research staff that will increase accrual and allow them to concentrate on carrying out their studies.
In 2014, YCCI implemented a recruitment campaign running in a venue that had never before been utilized. Capitalizing on the ability of transit ads to reach both the greater New Haven and Yale communities, YCCI has placed ads for its Help Us Discover recruitment campaign on Yale’s entire fleet of shuttle buses that travel around the city as well as to surrounding towns and the West Campus. This is the first time that advertising has appeared on this mini-transit system, which provides a sustainable and inexpensive advertising forum. The campaign also includes posters, brochures, newspaper ads, radio spots, transit ads, Internet banners and community health fairs.