Session: Community-Based Participatory Research: Working with Communities to Interpret and Analyze Data for Policy Change

APHA Scientific Session and Event Listing

2012.0: Sunday, November 05, 2006: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM

CE Hours: 3 contact hours

Community-Based Participatory Research: Working with Communities to Interpret and Analyze Data for Policy Change

Partnership:

Community-based public health caucus

Statement of Purpose and Institute Overview:

The purpose of this Institute is to help participants who are familiar with and possibly have some experience in CBPR sharpen their data collection and analysis skills. A systematic approach to inquiry which equitably involves community and other partners throughout the research process and views action as an integral part of the endeavor, CBPR recently was identified by the IOM as one of eight new areas in which all public health schools should be providing training. The CDC, the NIH and a number of large and small foundations similarly have begun calling for proposals that incorporate a CBPR approach. These developments reflect in part growing concern that traditional outside expert-driven approaches often have proven poorly suited to researching and developing interventions aimed at many of today's most intractable health and social issues, e.g., homelessness, teen pregnancy, violence, environmental pollution. Following a very brief review of CBPR, this institute will lead participants through the steps of collecting and analyzing data as well as influencing policy, all within the context of a partnership. Questions such as: How do we get from data to findings? How do we organize different types of data? Why might we select one data collection approach as opposed to another? How do we move from findings to policy? will be addressed. The Institute will use case studies, each of which employs one of three different data collection approaches, i.e., survey, mapping, and focus group, to teach skills related to data analysis and policy change implementation. The values and processes that permeate and define CBPR will be featured throughout. Participants will: a) review key principles of the participatory research approach, b) learn about issues involved in selecting a particular data collection method, c) understand how to move from data to findings, and d) become knowledgeable about how to work within the partnership to share data and findings in a community setting. Finally, d) they will learn how to identify the policy implications of findings.

Panelist(s):

Nina Wallerstein, DrPH
Barbara Israel, DrPH
Alex Allen, MBA
Jason Corburn, PhD
Samara Swanston, JD
Scott Rhodes, PhD, MPH, CHES
Sarah Adeky
Jaime Montaño

Organizer(s):

Suzanne Cashman, ScD

Discussant(s):

Meredith Minkler, DrPH

8:00 AM - 8:15 AM

Welcome, introduction, overview: Cashman

8:15 AM - 9:15 AM

Power... The Promise: A Brief Review of CBPR *