Welcome to AdvocateLink

AdvocateLink is an opportunity/ skills matching service modeled after career sites to link skilled, trained volunteer advocates to the research community. AdvocateLink addresses an unmet need of identifying opportunities within the research community. Research advocates can then use their skills and knowledge to inform the process by volunteering for those opportunities with registered organizaions.  There is no cost for the service.   AdvocateLink is the first site designed specifically to assist the research community to identify and match advocates to opportunities within the organization to provide feedback and to work with the research community to advance research.

Let's get started!!!

Research Advocates Ready to find some new ways to volunteer? Click here to register and create your volunteer profile. If you have already created an account click here to login.

Have an opportunity to post? Have an opportunity to post? If your organization has an opportunity to involve research advocates, please click here to register and post opportunities. If you have an opportunity that you would like to edit login here.


Success Stories

Patient advocates have a major influence in areas such as grant review, clinical trial design by providing feedback on concept and protocol development, speaking out about research funding and policy issues. We are pleased to present success stories from research advocates and their activities.  Have a story you would like to share?  Let us know by emailing us at info@advocatelink.org

Research Advocates Score a Win in Clinical Trial Design

When the Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group's patient representatives proposed adding a lower dose 'dex' arm to a clinical trial for treatment of multiple myeloma they were just looking for a way to make the treatment more tolerable.  Thanks to the researchers listening to their input  they found the outcome for myeloma patients actually improved.  Link here to learn more about this success.