Community engagement using World Café

Victory of Community Engagement

Loretta Jones, MA; Kenneth Wells, MD; Keith Norris, MD; Barbara Meade, MA; Paul Koegel, PhD This chapter provides an overview of Community-Partnered Participatory Research (CPPR) and introduces the articles in this special issue. CPPR is a model to engage community and academic partners equally in an initiative to benefit the community while contributing to science. This article reviews the his...

Using community engagement to drive co-creation in rural China

Designing for the public good, especially in disadvantaged communities, has attracted significant interest in recent years with both practicing designers and students seeking opportunities in this burgeoning area of design for social impact (Smithsonian Institution, 2013). Underdeveloped and developing regions in Africa, India, and China have become some of the most important arenas of social d...

Mapping Cancer for Community Engagement

INTRODUCTION Two research strategies may reduce health disparities: community participation and the use of geographic information systems. When combined with community participation, geographic information systems approaches, such as the creation of disease maps that connect disease rates with community context, can catalyze action to reduce health disparities. However, current approaches to di...

The Challenges of Community Engagement

Lyons and Whelan provide a useful list of recommendations as to how community engagement on nanotechnology could be improved, which very few people working in community engagement could disagree with. However, as the conclusions of any study are dependent on the data obtained, if more data had been obtained and analysed then different conclusions might have been reached. Addressing the key issu...

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