Our Commitment to the Field of Clinical and Translational Research

The CCTSI is committed to improving human health by accelerating scientific discoveries and their implementation and dissemination while building the research teams of the future. Colorado and the Rocky Mountain region are home to people of diverse backgrounds. We strongly believe that teams that include individuals from these backgrounds working together and capitalizing on their individuality foster progress and innovation -- and when we engage our communities as part of these teams, we advance our research in a way that improves health for all. 

The CCTSI is fully committed to the ongoing examination of our organizational policies and practices to ensure that we are in alignment with these values and to work in partnership with our faculty, staff, trainees and community partners to foster the best science and improve health for all Coloradans.

• Evaluating our organizational policies and procedures regularly to ensure effective hiring, training, promotion and funding practices
• Including community members in our executive leadership team
• Reviewing and revising the selection process for all CCTSI workforce development programs, which includes training on holistic review, selections scoring/rating criteria and review/discussion of applicants
• Integrating community needs and preferences into the planning, conduct and dissemination of research across the clinical and translational sciences spectrum
• Detecting and mitigating algorithmic bias in artificial intelligence (AI) systems and machine learning