Oral

This session includes abstracts from initiatives and community-academic partnerships targeting health research education and accrual within minority communities. The session examines both the process and outcome evaluation. The session presents a spectrum of strategies examining this topic including the use of enrollment registries, lay health advisor models, and community education strategies within African American communities. The processes and products included in this session informed the development of culturally sensitive strategies to increase awareness and access to health research by 1) increasing understanding of factors associated with participation and by 2) demonstrating the application of community-based participatory research tools to engage community-academic partnership.

Session Objectives: Describe effective strategies for recruitment and retention of underrepresented minority communities in health research Discuss examples of successful community-academic partnerships in interventions focused on recruiting underrepresented minority communities to participate in health research

CE Credits: Medical (CME), Health Education (CHES), Nursing (CNE), Public Health (CPH)