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Participant Recruitment

The Clinical Research Hub offers researchers study-specific recruitment strategies to identify potentially eligible participants, study sites, and study team members. Our goal is to streamline your efforts by helping you identify clinical and community venues, as well as social media platforms, to meet your study recruitment needs.

We provide consultations on:

  • recruitment registries (local and national)
  • passive recruitment (posted flyers)
  • face-to-face recruitment (e.g., health fairs, in clinics)
  • medical research networks
  • recruitment options specific to Tallahassee Memorial Hospital (TMH)
  • social media (e.g., Facebook, Instagram)

If you are looking for recruitment assistance, submit a research support request in FSU Health Research Connections, and then select Clinical Research --> Clinical Research Services --> Coordinator Services or Recruitment Assistance from the menu.

As FSU’s institutional liaison for ResearchMatch, Clinical Research Hub can assist with this online recruitment tool for study participants. Launched nationwide by Vanderbilt University, the ResearchMatch database contains tens of thousands of volunteers across the country who want to participate in health-related research.

FSU researchers have two types of access to ResearchMatch: feasibility and recruitment. Feasibility access allows the researcher to view aggregate data of potential study volunteers in the database, which is helpful for cohort determination. Recruitment access allows researchers with IRB-approved protocols to search and contact study volunteers. The researcher uses the study criteria along with geographic, demographic, health condition, and medication filters on ResearchMatch to generate a de-identified group of volunteers who “match” the study criteria.

For ResearchMatch workflows specific to FSU, please click here.

Clinical and Community Partners

Together with FSU Health Community Engagement, the Clinical Research Hub helps FSU researchers find clinical and community partners and collaborators to support your research. These relationships matter because research should impact patients in medical settings AND people in the community. 

If you are looking for assistance with partnership building, submit a research support request in FSU Health Research Connections, and then select Clinical Research --> Clinical & Health Partnerships --> Select the applicable option from our menu.