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Abstract #114189

Mark Farfel, ScD, Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, 624 North Broadway, Baltimore, MD 21205, 410-955-3864, mfarfel@jhsph.edu, Clara Goldberg-Freeman, MHS, Health Policy and Managment, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 624 North Broadway, Room 363, Baltimore, MD 21205, and Amanda Vogel, ScM, Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 611B St. Paul St., Baltimore, MD 21202.

The benefits and challenges of community-researcher partnerships have gained increasing attention in recent years. Among other things, community-based participatory research aims to build community capacity, skills, and resources and to ensure that academic researchers and governmental agencies incorporate community priorities and involvement into all phases of research. To better understand researchers' experiences and perspectives, we investigated JHMI faculty members' professional and non-professional involvement in, and collaboration with, the distressed East Baltimore neighborhoods surrounding the JHMI campus. We assessed faculty attitudes about East Baltimore and participatory research and the degree to which their research has had community involvement.

We disseminated an internet-based survey to >4,000 full-time faculty at the JHMI Schools of Medicine, Nursing, and Public Health, and the Kennedy Krieger Institute in Baltimore, Maryland and conducted follow-up in-depth interviews with faculty who had done community-based research in East Baltimore. Our presentation of the study findings will highlight challenges and approaches used by academic researchers and provide suggestions on how institutions, colleagues, and communities can facilitate and support researcher-community partnerships and community based research in general. We will also describe educational modules planned or developed for JHMI researchers to promote participatory research.

Learning Objectives: Learning Objectives

By the end of this session participants will
• Describe the experiences and attitudes of researchers engaged in community based research.
• Identify ways to support community based research that might be relevant to their own institutions.

Presenting author's disclosure statement:


I wish to disclose that I have NO financial interests or other relationship with the manufactures of commercial products, suppliers of commercial services or commercial supporters.

Recorded presentation

Assessing the Evidence of Community-Based Public Health Research and Education

The 133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition (December 10-14, 2005) of APHA