Each Partner Network has its own brand and communication guidelines. CCTS strongly recommends reviewing each Partner Network toolkit to become familiar with their expectations.
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Below is a checklist of details and support items you should consider when planning an event. Please email Jamye Hester (
- Monthly CCTS Virtual Learning Opportunities email to partners
- Eventbrite page
- Promotional videos
- Other
- External Newsletters
- eReporter
- UAB Research News Digest
- School of Medicine (SOM)
- Department of Medicine (DOM)
- Physician Scientist Development Office (PDSO)
- CTSA Center for Leading Innovation and Collaboration (CLIC)
- Other
Additional Support
- Food and / or beverages
- PCAMS space
- One Tap UAB One Card Reader for registration / reporting
- AV
- Zoom / video conference
- Distribution list development
- Graphics
- Professional offset or digital printing
- Photography
- Videography
- Report post-event on CCTS Digest
- Evaluation (Qualtrics, Survey Monkey, CCTS web form)
- CCTS materials packet
- Promotional items
- Offsite Rental / Coordination for CCTS Sponsored Events
- Other
About Promotion
The Communications Team uses a variety of channels to publish content about CCTS. Chief among these are our website, the CCTS Digest, and our social media channels including Twitter and YouTube. Print is also used extensively (e.g., cards, flyers, posters, infographics, etc.). Below is an overview of our two primary channels, which also serve as CCTS “channels of record.”
CCTS Digest
CCTS Digest is a weekly e-newsletter with a readership of 5,500+. It hits our subscribers’ inboxes on Mondays at 6am. The deadline for content is Thursdays at 12:00 noon. Information is published at a time and with a frequency that best enables us to accommodate myriad requests and produce timely, meaningful, mission-relevant content for our readers (in other words, we do not prioritize items on a first come, first served basis). We use Constant Contact, an email marketing service, to design, develop, and deliver Digest. Any CCTS member is welcome to submit content to Digest.
CCTS Website
The CCTS website is our digital front door and serves many audiences, including our Partner Network institutions. Our goals are to inform, educate, engage, and establish our website as the authoritative resource for clinical and translational science information and opportunities throughout our region. Content, therefore, should be easy to find/navigate, accurate, concise and written in plain language. Promotion of CCTS activities should push to our website whenever possible.
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Photography
The UAB Image Gallery offers a wide selection of photography from across campus at various sizes available for download. The gallery is searchable and updated regularly.
You'll need to be on the campus network or use VPN to access the site, and a BlazerID login is required to view and download images. For more information including a request for headshots and photo guidelines, please visit the UAB Brand and Communication Toolkit.
The NIH Image GalleryGallery on Flickr provides images that are free to use with credit. Images are meant for use by the science and health community, the press that covers health and science, teachers and other educators in health and science and non-profit organizations that produce health and science information. It is not intended for commercial use.
Videography
CCTS's YouTube channel highlights a wide variety of training videos for researchers who prefer the flexibility of learning online. To learn more about CCTS on YouTube, please visit the CCTS Media page. If you would like your seminar or presentation recorded, please contact CCTS at
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Need a short description to explain CCTS in a press release, presentation, or sponsored web page? Use the following:
Center for Clinical and Translational Science (CCTS)
To speed the translation of research into improved health, the Center for Clinical and Translational Science (CCTS) is committed to increasing research capacity, accelerating research processes, engaging stakeholders in trusting, productive teams, developing and supporting excellence in the research workforce and providing creative, innovative approaches to major health and health care delivery challenges. The vision of the CCTS is to reduce health disparities and diseases disproportionately represented within the Deep South as we accelerate discovery to improve health. The Center has assembled a robust Partner Network – spanning Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana – to ensure that research and training efforts serve the communities in our region while maximizing collaborative synergies in translational research to advance fundamental and clinical discovery through to application.
Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) Program
The CCTS and its Partner Network represent one of nearly 60 Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSA) funded by the National Institutes of Health’s National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS). The national CTSA Consortium comes together by a shared mission to strengthen the clinical and translational research enterprise “to get more treatments to more patients more quickly.” The CTSA Consortium is committed to developing a knowledgeable translational science workforce; engaging patients and communities in every phase of the translational process; promoting the integration of priority and underserved populations in translational research across the human lifespan; innovating processes to increase the quality and efficiency of translational research, particularly of multisite trials; and advancing the use of cutting-edge informatics.
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