Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) (i.e., research conducted by or with the participation of community members), is increasingly recognized as a critical component of science. Simultaneously CBPR is a tool for sustained community empowerment. Many CBPR projects concerned with community health rely on partnerships between professional health scientists, health care providers and grassroots community organizations. A number of these community-driven projects study social determinants of health disparities in poor and minority communities. With interest in CBPR growing rapidly across the globe, practitioners and funders of CBR thought a conversation on common guidelines was both useful and timely to undertake. In January 2000, over 65 representatives of communities, government agencies, academia and non-governmental organizations met in Washington, DC to outline a manual on guidelines for CBPR. The manual was designed to be relevant to several categories of CBPR stakeholders including communities, researchers (and their professional-academic associations), government and/or regional agencies, and funders. The guidelines will be used by stakeholders during the process of engagement that is critical among participants in CBPR projects. This presentation provides a summary of the guidelines and their history, in addition to a case-study example of how CBPR was used to study social determinants of health and how guidelines aided in the research partnership. Also included in the presentation are examples of how guidelines for CBR are used in the development of research projects and their role in establishing an international community-based infrastructure for research, action and evaluation.
Learning Objectives: Identify principles of community-based participatory research Describe the role of community-based participatory research in studying health disparties and social determinants of health Apply guidelines for community-based research to partnerships
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