Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) is a partnership between researchers and community that builds on community strengths and resources to generate questions that are suitable for research, fosters co-learning with the community, seeks to recognize the power-sharing process and address inequities as they occur, and aims to make a long-term commitment to the community relationships formed and ongoing work on the community-generated concerns. CBPR is well-recognized, exciting, dynamic and mirrors community complexity. This approach considers current pressures on systems like COVID-19 responses.
Students enrolled in this course will learn the basics of the CBPR model with a particular focus on where multidisciplined research plays a role. Readings and videos will point out where CBPR models have been successful in public health and beyond, and students will unpack the “how” of the projects. Students will consider their own field placements or other organizations they are partnered with to craft a project proposal around a community issue for the final paper. There are no exams.
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