Commentary: 25 Years of Community Partnered Participatory Research

The Healthy African American Families (HAAF) project: from community-based participatory research to community-partnered participatory research.

During the past two decades, there has been an increased use of community-based participatory research in public health activities, especially as part of efforts to understand health disparities affecting communities of color. This article describes the history and lessons learned of a long-standing community participatory project, Healthy African American Families (HAAF), in Los Angeles, Calif...

Ethics of clinical research within a community-academic partnered participatory framework.

Recommendations for reducing racial and ethnic disparities in health and health care suggest that clinical researchers try community-based participatory research (CBPR). While the body of literature discussing the ethics of CBPR continues to grow, we are not aware of a specific attempt to provide a structure for analyzing the ethics of clinical research using a CBPR approach. We adapt a framewo...

Introduction: partnered participatory research to build community capacity and address mental health disparities and disasters.

Foreword. Partnered participatory research to build community capacity and address mental health disparities and disaster.

Community-partnered participatory research (CPPR), established in the paradigm of community-based participatory research, represents a relatively recent innovation in the field of mental health services research. As part of a public health model, CPPR offers a potentially advantageous framework to address mental health needs in response to population-level emergencies and large-scale disasters....

Commentary: community partnered research: driving sensemaking, managing knowledge, and moving mental health care to new heights.

Longstanding gaps between research and practice, research and policy, and policy and practice impede the sustainability of high-quality health services delivery and often inadvertently contribute to disparities in healthcare access, processes, and outcomes. Why do these gaps exist? Explanations embrace multiple reasons and acknowledge the interactions between factors such as financing and organ...