The Art and Science of Community-based Participatory Research (CBPR): Methods, Me

描述（由申请人提供）：在过去的十年中，以社区为基础的预防性研究（CBPR）已成为解决公共卫生问题的一种方法。最重要的是，学术界和社区实体已开始根据CBPR原则开展合作，以减少种族/族裔健康差距，改善少数群体的健康。这些伙伴关系是由这样一种观念推动的，即许多当代健康问题涉及传统研究方法无法充分解决的复杂性。在这个时候，有必要建立在CBPR的投资，以最大限度地提高少数民族健康和健康差距研究的回报，通过提供一个会议论坛，将促进CBPR方法在全国范围内的健康行为研究人员的不同干部。由美国健康行为学会（AAHB）设计，拟议的会议旨在汇集领先的CBPR专家（行为科学家和社区合作伙伴），他们代表CBPR，少数民族健康和健康差异领域的一些最具创新性的研究项目。会议将为学术和社区专家提供一个论坛，与与会者就预测CBPR成功结果的策略以及CBPR对健康行为研究的附加值进行互动。会议与会者将包括传统的研究人员谁拥有相当的专业知识，在一个或多个相关的种族/少数民族社区的各种优先内容领域，但对他们来说，CBPR是一种方法，他们不是很熟悉在这个时候。AAHB希望扩大传统的健康行为研究人员如何看待他们的工作，并增加他们采用CBPR原则来改善少数民族健康和减少健康差距的可能性。AAHB本次会议有三个目标：（1）挑战高级研究人员扩大他们的研究，重点关注高度优先的少数民族健康问题和使用CBPR来解决这些问题;（2）指导年轻的少数民族研究人员制作高质量的学术产品，使用CBPR解决少数民族健康问题和健康差距;以及（3）建立学术和社区专家的合作网络，以促进未来的CBPR伙伴关系，改善少数民族健康，减少健康差距。拟议会议的一个主要特点是，现有CBPR项目的社区合作伙伴将被纳入会议计划，以促进研究人员和合作伙伴之间的学习。第二个关键特征是AAHB和W.K.凯洛格基金会的社区卫生学者计划将合作建立一个指导计划，为早期职业研究人员从种族和少数民族群体。基于社区的预防性研究（CBPR）有望改善公共卫生。然而，在应用这种方法帮助社区方面还有很多东西要学。此外，传统的健康行为研究者如何理解参与式研究，还有待进一步了解，例如：（1）它对少数民族健康产生积极影响的潜力，减少/消除健康差距;（2）成功发展和维持与非学术社区合作伙伴的参与关系所需的方法。因此，美国健康行为学会（AAHB）建议举行一次科学会议，鼓励（1）CBPR高级主要研究者，（2）社区合作伙伴和（3）传统健康行为研究人员之间进行面对面的知识讨论，以应用CBPR专门解决少数民族健康和健康差异问题。近年来没有举行过这样的会议。此外，我们还不知道有哪些会议支持了一项旨在通过促进来自种族和少数民族群体（传统上在科学领域代表性不足）的早期职业研究人员的发展来建立研究能力的指导计划。AAHB预计，提供这次会议将产生长期持久的影响，将加强未来的CPBR的努力。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): In the last decade, Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) has emerged as an approach for addressing public health problems. Most importantly, academic and community-based entities have begun to form collaborative efforts based on CBPR principles to reduce racial/ethnic health disparities and improve minority health. These partnerships are fueled by the notion that many contemporary health problems involve complexities which will not be adequately addressed by traditional research approaches. At this time, there is a need to build upon the investment into CBPR to maximize the return for minority health and health disparity research by providing a conference forum that will promote use of CBPR approaches nationally among a diverse cadre of health behavior researchers. Designed by the American Academy of Health Behavior (AAHB), the proposed conference seeks to bring together leading CBPR experts (both behavioral scientists and community partners) who represent some of the most innovative research programs in the field of CBPR, minority health, and health disparities. The conference will provide a forum for academic and community experts to interact with conference participants about the strategies that predict successful outcomes in CBPR and the added value of CBPR for health behavior research. Conference attendees will include traditional researchers who have considerable expertise in one or more of a variety of priority content areas of relevance to racial/ethnic minority communities, but for whom CBPR is an approach which they are not well acquainted at this time. AAHB expects to expand how traditional health behavior researchers think about their work and increase the likelihood that they will adopt CBPR principles to improve minority health and reduce health disparities. AAHB has three objectives for this conference: (1) challenge senior investigators to expand their research to focus on high-priority minority health problems and the use of CBPR to address them; (2) mentor young, minority investigators in the production of high-quality scholarly products that address minority health concerns and health disparities using CBPR; and (3) build collaborative networks of academic and community-based experts to foster future CBPR partnerships to improve minority health and reduce health disparities. One key feature of the proposed conference is that community partners from existing CBPR projects will be included in the conference program to facilitate learning among researchers and partners alike. A second key feature is that AAHB and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation's Community Health Scholars Program will partner to establish a mentorship program for early career researchers from racial and ethnic minority groups. Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) has promise for improving public health. Yet, there is a great deal to learn about the application of this approach for helping communities. In addition, much remains to be learned about how traditional health behavior researchers understand participatory research, such as: (1) its potential for positively impact minority health and reduce/eliminate health disparities and (2) methods needed to be successful in developing and maintaining participatory relationships with non-academic community partners. Thus, the American Academy of Health Behavior (AAHB) proposes to hold a scientific meeting that will stimulate face-to-face intellectual discussion between (1) senior CBPR principal investigators, (2) community partners, and (3) traditional health behavior researchers on the application of CBPR to specifically address problems in minority health and health disparities. A conference of this type has not been held in recent years. In addition, we are not aware of meetings which have supported a mentoring program designed to build research capacity by fostering the development of early career researchers from racial and ethnic minority groups (traditionally underrepresented in science). AAHB expects that providing this conference will produce long lasting effects that will strengthen future CPBR efforts.