Building Capacity for Productive Indigenous Community-University Partnerships.

ABSTRACT: This paper describes capacity development as a key aspect of community-based research with indigenous communities. University research engagement with indigenous communities includes extensive, and often negative, historical antecedents. We discuss strategies for developing effective, egalitarian, and balanced indigenous community-university relationships to build research capacity of these communities, and to create sustainable partnerships to improve health and wellness, and to reduce health disparities. We draw on the experience of eight investigators conducting research with indigenous communities to assess effective strategies for building and enhancing partnerships, including (1) supporting indigenous investigator development; (2) developing university policies and practices sensitiv

SUBMITTER: Gittelsohn J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6447474 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature