Community Health Research: Community-Based Research

What is research? - students' view on research and its role in various fields. Courtesy of Northwestern University's Office of Undergraduate Research Video Channel. 

Community-Participatory Research -  theory, practices, and research methods of the Community Based Participatory Action Research (CBPAR). Courtesy of Northwestern University's Office of Undergraduate Research Video Channel. 

CBPR - community based research, benefits, limitations and steps of CBPR. 

Empoverment, health, and socail change: Asian Health Research - effect of CBRP on community emproverment, social change, and health. Courtesy of Asian American Mental Health Video Channel. 

Bridge between communities: The Detroit Community-Academic Urban Resarch Center - theory, practice, challenges, and benefits of implementation of CBPR at the Detroit Community-Academic Urban Research Center. Courtesy of Detroit Community-Academic Urban.

"Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) is collaborative approach to research that equitably involves all parthers in the research process and recognizes that each brings. CBPR begins with a research topic of importance to the community and has the aim of combining knowledge with action and achieving social change to improve health outcomes and eliminate health disparities".

Courtesy of W. K. Kellogg Foundation Community Health Scholars Program.

"The National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities Community-Based Participatory Research CBPR Initiative concludes three phases:

• Phase I (the Planning Phase) provides three years of funding for the community and its scientific research partners to conduct the needs assessment, identify their priorities, and design the intervention.
• Phase II (the Research Intervention Phase) provides grantees up to five years of funding to refine the intervention, develop methods to evaluate its effectiveness, and implement the full-scale intervention.
• Phase III (the Information Dissemination Phase) provides three years of funding for the research-community partners to share their research findings and insights gained from the intervention with the targeted CBPR community as well as with other researchers and organizations".
  
  

Courtesy of NIH National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities 

AHRQ: The Role of Community-Based Participatory Research - background information on the Community-Based Participatory Research, benefits, approaches, advantages, and challenges. 

NIH Community Participatory Research Office of Behavioral of Social Sciences Research - approaches, advantages, funding opportunities, and training initiatives of CBPR for health care disparities.

AHRQ - benefits, approaches, and challenges of CBPR.

National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities - research focused on health disparities. 

HHS Center for Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships (The Partnership Center) - liason between the HHS and grassroots communities (secular and faith-based communities, neighborhoods, and other). 

CDC Community Health Online Resource Center -  community health, disease prevention, and healthy living. 

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2. O’Fallon, L. R., Tyson, F. L., & Dearry, A. (2000). Successful models of community-based participatory research: Final report. Research Triangle Park, NC: National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. Available from: http://www.hud.gov/offices/lead/library/hhts/NIEHS_Successful_Models.pdf

3. Viswanathan M, Ammerman A, Eng E, Garlehner, G, Lohr, K,  Griffith, D, Rhodes, S , Samuel-Hodge, C, Maty, S, Lux, L, Webb, L, Sutton, S, Swinson, T, Jackman, A  and L Whitener. Community‐Based Participatory Research: Assessing the Evidence: Summary. 2004 Aug. In: AHRQ Evidence Report Summaries. Rockville (MD): Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (US); 1998-2005. 99. Available from: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK11852/

4. Simonds, V. W., Wallerstein, N., Duran, B., & Villegas, M. (2013). Peer reviewed: community-based participatory research: its role in future cancer research and public health practice. Preventing chronic disease, 10. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.5888/pcd10.120205

5. Task Force on the Principles of Community Engagement (Clinical and Translational Science Awards Consortium Community Engagement Key Function Committee Task Force on the Principles of Community Engagement) Principles of community engagement: Second edition. 2011. [August 1, 2011]. (NIH Publication No. 11-7782). Available from http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/communityengagement/index.html