Community-based participatory research in complex settings: clean mind-dirty hands

Getting Students’ Hands Dirty with Clean-Slate Networking

Conventional networking courses treat today’s protocols and mechanisms as fixed artifacts, rather than as part of a continually evolving system. To prepare students to think critically about Internet architecture, we created a graduate networking course that combines “clean slate” networking research with hands-on experience in analyzing, building, and extending real networks. Our goal was to p...

hand hygiene in healthcare settings: clean hands save lives

Community-Based Participatory Research: Summary

Community-based participatory research (CBPR) is an approach to health and environmental research meant to increase the value of studies for both researchers and the community being studied. This approach is particularly attractive for academics and public health professionals struggling to address the persistent problems of health care disparities in a variety of populations (identified by fac...

Factors affecting community-based participatory research in Iran: a qualitative study on health sector stakeholders' view

Community-based participatory research is an important strategy to deal with public health challenges. However, the application of community-based participatory research in public health has encountered many challenges. This study was conducted to address academic perspective about the challenges and factors that are influencing on the community-based participatory research in Iran. A qualitati...

Community-based participatory research in Iran: its challenges and ways to control from the stakeholders view

     According to World Health Organization reports, the root of applied researches problems in developing countries are running the researches based on academic researchers ’ interests as well as decision-making in executive systems based on their managers ’ experiences. The problems will be eliminated by stakeholders ’ participation. In 2001, the Community-Based Participatory Research (CBP...