Partner with Reflections

The Reflections Collective brings together advocacy organizations, research sites, sponsors, community partners, communication specialists, and others working toward a shared goal: helping clinical research better reflect the people it serves.

This is not a passive network. It is a working collective built through shared learning, visible community presence, and cross-sector partnership. Members contribute time, perspective, and resources to help shape what Reflections does next, together.

What Partnership
Looks Like

Reflections is a co-created model, informed by the PALADIN Consortium framework. Partners come together around a shared commitment to trust, access, representation, and community relevance.

Partnership with Reflections is built on collaboration, not optics. The goal is not just to say the right things, but to help create conditions where more people feel seen, informed, and able to explore clinical research in ways that feel respectful and relevant.

That can include:

  • • participating in shared workstreams
  • • contributing expertise, resources, or community insight
  • • helping shape activations, education, and outreach
  • • supporting clear pathways into research
  • • learning alongside other organizations across the clinical research ecosystem

Why Organizations Partner with Reflections

Lasting change in clinical research takes more than one stakeholder working alone. It takes trusted local relationships, visible community presence, shared accountability, and a willingness to build with others. Reflections offers a way to:

Strengthen trust and connection in community settings

Learn from partners across advocacy, research, industry, and local community networks

Support more inclusive and accessible pathways into clinical research

Contribute to a model designed for long-term, community-rooted impact

Be part of work that is measurable, visible, and grounded in real partnership

Who Reflections Partners With

Sponsors and CROs

Reflections gives sponsors and CROs a chance to participate in a more community-centered approach to research engagement and participation. Partnership offers practical collaboration, shared learning, and stronger visibility into what trust-building looks like on the ground.

Research Sites

For research sites, Reflections can help strengthen community connection, support more inclusive outreach, and create stronger relationships with partners who are also working to expand access and representation in research.

Patient Advocacy Groups

Advocacy organizations help ensure community voice stays at the center of the work. Reflections creates space to collaborate across organizations, expand reach, and support research conversations that are more relevant to the people each group serves.

Community Organizations

Community partners bring local knowledge, trusted relationships, and real-world context. Their leadership helps ground Reflections in the spaces where trust already exists and where meaningful conversations can begin.

Local Businesses

Local businesses can help extend the visibility and relevance of the work in everyday community settings. Partnership can take many forms, from hosting and promotion to participation in events, activations, and local relationship-building.

Service and Industry Partners

Reflections also works with organizations that support the broader clinical research ecosystem and want to help build more inclusive, community-rooted practices through collaboration, learning, and shared effort.

Our Shared Values

Community-Centered

The work starts with people, not assumptions. Reflections is shaped by the voices, experiences, and needs of communities that have too often been left out of research conversations.

Collaborative

Reflections brings together partners from across the ecosystem because meaningful change requires shared effort, shared learning, and shared accountability.

Sustainable

The goal is to build relationships, infrastructure, and practices that can continue to grow over time, not disappear when a single campaign or funding cycle ends.

Grounded and Practical

Reflections values ideas that can be put into action. The work is rooted in real conversations, real places, and measurable steps forward.

What We Are Building Together

Reflections is working toward three connected goals:

Greater Community Participation

Expand participation in clinical research by growing trust, awareness, and practical pathways for patients, families, and communities in Atlanta.

Sustainable, Community-Rooted Impact

Build a model that communities and partners can continue shaping over time, with local relevance and long-term momentum.

Clear Communication and Measurable Progress

Track what is working, share what is being learned, and use real outcomes to guide what comes next.

The Collective in Action

Reflections is already showing measurable impact through cross-sector partnership, community activation, and visible participation pathways.

Up to 81%
increase in willingness to join a clinical trial after a Reflections event
9 in 10
surveyed visitors said clinical research felt relevant to their life
Nearly 2x
average patients per site per month across participating ATL organizations
2
Fierce Healthcare DEI Awards won in 2025

Interested in Partnering?

Partnership

Whether you are part of a sponsor team, a research site, an advocacy organization, a community group, or a local business, Reflections welcomes conversations with organizations that share a commitment to trust, access, and representation in clinical research.

Reach out to our team to learn more.

Express Your Interest

Tell us a bit about your organization and how you see yourself partnering with Reflections.