Increasing representation and building capacity for research and rehabilitation with people experiencing homelessness (PEH) and burn injury (ReBuild)

The goals of ReBuild are to identify and implement best practices for the enrollment and retention of PEH in longitudinal research, increase representation of this group in BMS database and NWRBMS Consumer Advisory Board (CAB), and identify and evaluate interventions that improve their quality of life of PEH after burn injury. Homelessness, particularly living unsheltered, is strongly associated with burn injury risk, sustaining more severe burn injury, and experiencing complicated recovery (e.g., greater disability, more recovery needs, less access to rehabilitation services).