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Community engagement in research: frameworks for education and peer review. Am J Public Health 2010 Aug;100(8):1380-7

Date

06/19/2010

Pubmed ID

20558798

Pubmed Central ID

PMC2901283

DOI

10.2105/AJPH.2009.178137

Scopus ID

2-s2.0-77954500563 (requires institutional sign-in at Scopus site)   397 Citations

Abstract

Community engagement in research may enhance a community's ability to address its own health needs and health disparities issues while ensuring that researchers understand community priorities. However, there are researchers with limited understanding of and experience with effective methods of engaging communities. Furthermore, limited guidance is available for peer-review panels on evaluating proposals for research that engages communities. The National Institutes of Health Director's Council of Public Representatives developed a community engagement framework that includes values, strategies to operationalize each value, and potential outcomes of their use, as well as a peer-review framework for evaluating research that engages communities. Use of these frameworks for educating researchers to create and sustain authentic community-academic partnerships will increase accountability and equality between the partners.

Author List

Ahmed SM, Palermo AG

MESH terms used to index this publication - Major topics in bold

Advisory Committees
Communication
Community Participation
Community-Based Participatory Research
Community-Institutional Relations
Cooperative Behavior
Guidelines as Topic
Health Services Needs and Demand
Humans
Models, Educational
National Institutes of Health (U.S.)
Peer Review, Research
Professional Role
Program Development
Research Design
Research Personnel
Research Support as Topic
United States