Services — Smith Research & Consulting LLC

Our Services

Smith Research & Consulting LLC is a full-service research, evaluation, and strategy consulting firm specializing in community-engaged approaches to improve health in society. The firm is a limited liability company registered in the State of Texas.

We seek to promote equity and transformation in who we work with and how we do our work. Applying an equity lens to our research and evaluation means that we look critically at the structures placed in front of us and the ones we create to ensure that we are not reinforcing societal barriers, inequities, and traumas.

At SRC we are committed to providing excellent customized consulting services to aid our clients in their journey to improve their community and society. Our values are to do this work with intention, integrity, accountability, equity, collaboration, and creativity.

We are a proud woman and minority-owned firm.

Past Clients

Community Engagement

Community engaged methods recognizes and centers the expertise of the people and communities at the heart of the issues we study by intentionally including their input, participation, and priorities into research, policy, or technical assistance. Community engagement is an important precursor to research, strategic planning, program development, or community building.

We aid in the following:

Community engagement facilitation
Community building
Needs assessments
Asset mapping
Strategic planning
Community-engaged research
Training and technical assistance

Research and Evaluation

Whether seeking to understand a phenomenon or how a program is being delivered, we provide rigorous research and evaluation services. We work with clients on research design, research question generation, data collection, and analysis. We also work with our clients in understanding how to leverage research to inform their work.

We specialize in the following services:

Community-engaged research
Formative evaluation
Summative evaluation
Qualitative research methodologies

racial Equity Assessment

Equity assessments, sometimes also called "equity audits" or "climate assessments," involve collecting and analyzing information, usually through multiple data-gathering processes, in order to determine the extent to which a hospital, school, college, program, or other entity is equitable to each member of the community.

We specialize in the following services:

Equity assessment design
Data collection
Data analysis
Strategic planning based on findings

Patient engagement in Health research

Patients play a crucial role o in research, which may improve the value of healthcare research. Patient engagement in the planning and execution of research has been shown to improve the usefulness and credibility of clinical research. Moreover, it also supports better translation into clinical practice.

We specialize in the following services:

Patient engagement facilitation
Grant writing support
Technical assistance
Patient recruitment