A successful model for longitudinal community-engaged health research: the 2040 Partners for Health Student Program.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Community-based participatory research [CBPR] is an emerging approach to collaborative research aimed at creating locally effective and sustainable interventions. The 2040 Partners for Health student program was developed as a unique model of longitudinal CBPR. Analysis of this program and its components illuminates both the challenges and the opportunities inherent in community engagement.

Methods

The program rests on a foundation of a community-based, non-profit organization and a supportive academic university centre. Inter-professional health students and community members of underserved populations work together on different health projects by employing an adapted CBPR methodology. Three successful examples of sustainable CBPR projects are briefly described

SUBMITTER: Redman RM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6390419 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature