Handbook of Community-Based Participatory Research

Steven S. Coughlin, Selina A. Smith, and Maria E. Fernandez

Chapters contributed by nationally and internationally recognized pioneers in the field of Community-based Participatory Research (CBPR)
Applies proven CBPR methods to public health challenges such interpersonal violence, the obesity epidemic, and substance use
Introduces research methodologies first developed in the social sciences to researchers in other domains and to policy makers, workers at not-for-profit organizations, and others outside of academia
Unites the perspectives of academic researchers, public health practitioners, and community advocates

Handbook of Community-Based Participatory Research

Steven S. Coughlin, Selina A. Smith, and Maria E. Fernandez

Description

Community-based participatory research (CBPR) emerged in response to the longstanding tradition of "top-down" research-studies in which social scientists observe social phenomena and community problems as outsiders, separate from the participants' daily lives. CBPR is more immersive, fostering partnerships between academic and community organizations that increase the value and consequence of the research for all partners. The current perspectives gleaned from this school of research have been wildly well-received, in no small part because they address the complexity of the human experience in their conclusions.

HANDBOOK OF COMMUNITY-BASED PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH codifies the methods and theories of this research approach and articulates an expansive vision of health that includes gender equality, safe and adequate housing, and freedom from violence. Topic-based chapters apply the theory and methods of CBPR to real world problems affecting women, ethnic and racial minorities, and immigrant communities such as sexual violence, exposure to environmental toxins, and lack of access to preventive care as well as suggesting future directions for effective, culturally sensitive research.

HANDBOOK OF COMMUNITY-BASED PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH is required reading for academics, policy makers, and students seeking meaningful social change through scholarship.

Handbook of Community-Based Participatory Research

Steven S. Coughlin, Selina A. Smith, and Maria E. Fernandez

Contributors
Preface
1. Overview of Community-based Participatory Research
2. Community-based Participatory Research Study Approaches along a Continuum of Community-Engaged Research
3. Research Methods and Community-based Participatory Research: Challenges and Opportunities
4. The use of GIS and Spatial Analyses in Community-based Participatory Research
5. Ethical Issues in Community-based Participatory Research Studies
6. Participatory Research Studies in Faith-based Settings
7. Special Issues in Conducting Community-based Participatory Reserach Studies with Ethnic and Racial Minorities
8. Community-based Participatory Research Studies Involving Immigrants
9. Applying a Community-based Participatory Research Approach to Address Determinants of Cardiovascular Disease and Diabetes Mellitus in an Urban Setting
10. Community-based Participatory Research Addressing Infant Mortality
11. Community-based Participatory Research Studies on Colorectal Cancer Screening
12. Community-based Participatory Research Studies on Breast and Cervical Cancer Screening
13. Community-based Participatory Research Studies on Environmental Health
14. Community-based Participatory Research Studies on Interpersonal Violence: Ending the Cycle of Poverty and Violence
15. Using Community-based Participatory Research Approaches in HIV: Three Case Studies
16. Engaging Communities in Translational Research
17. Summary and Conclusions
Index

Handbook of Community-Based Participatory Research

Steven S. Coughlin, Selina A. Smith, and Maria E. Fernandez

Author Information

Steven S. Coughlin, Associate Professor, College of Allied Health Sciences, Augusta University, Selina A. Smith, Director, Institute of Public and Preventative Health, Augusta University, and Maria E. Fernandez, Director, Department of Health Promotion and Behavioral Sciences, University of Texas School of Public Health

Steven S. Coughlin, Ph.D, is Associate Professor at Augusta University and Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology at Emory University. Until recently, he was a Visiting Professor in the College of Health Sciences at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell. Until 2014, he was Professor of Preventive Medicine at the University of Tennessee College of Medicine in Memphis and Director of the Research Core for the Research Center on Health Disparities, Equity, and the Exposome. Previously, he was a senior epidemiologist in the Division of Cancer Prevention and Control at CDC in Atlanta.

Maria E. Fernandez, Ph.D, is Professor of Health Promotion and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Texas, School of Public Health (SPH) and Director of the Center for Health Promotion and Prevention Research (CHPPR).

Selina A. Smith, Ph.D, MDiv, is the Director of the Augusta University (AU) Institute of Public and Preventive Health (IPPH). The IPPH is AU's first public health institute (established in 2012). Dr. Smith holds appointments as Professor and Curtis G. Hames, MD Distinguished Chair, Department of Family Medicine, Medical College of Georgia (MCG) and Member, Population Sciences, Cancer Center.

Contributors:

Leland K. Ackerson, ScD, MPH
Graduate Public Health Program Coordinator
Associate Professor
Department of Community Health and Sustainability
University of Massachusetts Lowell
Lowell, Massachusetts

Tobia Henry Akintobi, Ph.D, MPH
Associate Professor and Associate Dean, Community Engagement
Director, Prevention Research Center
Director, Evaluation and Institutional Assessment
Associate Professor
Department of Community Health and Preventive Medicine
Morehouse School of Medicine
Atlanta, Georgia

Benjamin E. Ansa, MD, MSCR
Senior Research Associate
Institute of Public and Preventive Health
Augusta University
Augusta, Georgia

Peter Baltrus, Ph.D
Associate Professor of Community Health and Preventive Medicine
National Center for Primary Care
Morehouse School of Medicine
Atlanta, Georgia

Shanice Battle, MPH
Department of Psychiatry
Center for Maternal Substance Abuse and Child Development
Emory University School of Medicine
Atlanta, Georgia

Allyson S. Belton, MPH
Associate Project Director
Satcher Health Leadership Institute
Morehouse School of Medicine
Atlanta, Georgia

Mara Bird, Ph.D
Director
Center for Latino Community Health, Evaluation and Leadership Training, and
California State University Long Beach
Long Beach, California

Daniel Blumenthal, MD, MPH
President, American College of Preventive Medicine, and
Professor Emeritus
Department of Community Health and Preventive Medicine
Morehouse School of Medicine
Atlanta, Georgia

Deborah Bowen, Ph.D
Professor
Department of Bioethics and Humanities
School of Medicine
University of Washington
Seattle, Washington

Ulrike Brizay, Ph.D
University of Applied Science, FH
Erfurt, Germany

Pamela Daniels, MBA, MPH, Ph.D
Epidemiologist
Morehouse School of Medicine
Atlanta, Georgia

Jennifer Glick, Ph.D, MPH
Department of Global Community Health and Behavioral Sciences
School of Public Health & Tropical Medicine
Tulane University
New Orleans, Louisiana

Jason Globerman, MSc
Ontario HIV Treatment Network
Toronto, Canada

David Gogolishvili, MPH
Ontario HIV Treatment Network
Toronto, Canada

Lina Golob, MSc
International AIDS Society
Geneva, Switzerland

Erin N. Haynes, DrPH, MS
Associate Professor
Director, Clinical and Translational Research Training Program
Director, Community Outreach and Engagement Core, Center for Environmental Genetics
Division of Epidemiology
Department of Environmental Health
University of Cincinnati, College of Medicine
Cincinnati, Ohio

Shirin Heidari, Ph.D
Director
Reproductive Health Matters
London, United Kingdom

Harry J. Heiman, MD, MPH
Director, Division of Health Policy
Satcher Health Leadership Institute
Morehouse School of Medicine
Atlanta, GA

LaShawn M. Hoffman
Chair, Community Coalition Board
Prevention Research Center
Morehouse School of Medicine
Atlanta, Georgia

Kisha B. Holden, Ph.D, MSCR
Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Department of Community Health and Preventive Medicine
Interim Director, Satcher Health Leadership Institute
Morehouse School of Medicine
Atlanta, Georgia

Cheryl L. Holt, Ph.D
Associate Professor, Behavioral and Community Health <https://sph.umd.edu/department/bch>
Director, CHAMP (Community Health Awareness, Messages, and Prevention) Lab
Co-Director, Center for Health Behavior Research
Co-Leader for Population Science Program in the Greenebaum Cancer Center
University of Maryland
College Park, Maryland

Farrah Jacquez, Ph.D
Associate Professor
Department of Psychology
University of Cincinnati
Cincinnati, Ohio

Carolyn M. Jenkins, DrPH, MSN, RD, LD, FAAN
Professor and Ann Darlington Edwards Endowed Chair in Nursing
Director for Center for Community Health Partnerships
Co-Director, SCTR Community Engagement
Medical University of South Carolina
Charleston, South Carolina

Carl Kendall, Ph.D
Director, Center for Global Health Equity
Professor, Department of Global Community Health and Behavioral Sciences
School of Public Health & Tropical Medicine
Tulane University
New Orleans, Louisiana

Stephani S. Kim, MPH
Doctoral Student
Division of Epidemiology
Department of Environmental Health
University of Cincinnati, College of Medicine
Cincinnati, Ohio

Heather Kitzman-Ulrich, Ph.D
Assistant Professor
Texas Prevention Institute
Department of Behavioral and Community Health
School of Public Health
University of North Texas Health Science Center
Ft. Worth, Texas

Annie L. Nguyen, Ph.D, MPH
Assistant Professor
Department of Family Medicine
Keck School of Medicine
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California

Tonny Oyana, Ph.D
Director of Spatial Analytics and Informatics Core,
Research Center for Health Disparities, Equity, and the Exposome
Professor, Department of Preventive Medicine
University of Tennessee Health Science Center
Memphis, Tennessee

Latrice Rollins, Ph.D, MSW
Assistant Director of Evaluation and Institutional Assessment
Prevention Research Center
Department of Community Health and Preventive Medicine
Morehouse College of Medicine
Atlanta, Georgia

Rodney Lyn, Ph.D, MS
Associate Professor and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
School of Public Health
Georgia State University
Atlanta, Georgia

Britt Riot-Ellis, Ph.D
Founding Dean
College of Health Science and Human Services
California State University Monterey Bay
Seaside, California

Sean B. Rourke, Ph.D, FCAHS
Scientific and Executive Director
Ontario HIV Treatment Network and
Professor of Psychiatry
University of Toronto
Scientist, Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute of St. Michael's Hospital
Toronto, Canada

David Seal, Ph.D
Professor and Vice-Chair
Doctoral Programs Director
Department of Global Community Health and Behavioral Sciences
School of Public Health & Tropical Medicine
Tulane University
New Orleans, Louisiana

Lisa M. Vaughn, Ph.D
Professor, Pediatrics
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
Cincinnati, Ohio

Alice Welbourn, Ph.D
Founding Director
Salamander Trust
London, United Kingdom

Glenda Wrenn, MD, MSHP
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Morehouse School of Medicine
Atlanta, Georgia

Wonsuk Yoo, Ph.D
Associate Director, Data Coordinating Center
Institute of Public and Preventive Health
Associate Professor
College of Dental Medicine
Augusta University
Augusta, Georgia

Emily Youngblom, MPH
Institute of Public Health Genetics
University of Washington
Seattle, Washington

Handbook of Community-Based Participatory Research

Steven S. Coughlin, Selina A. Smith, and Maria E. Fernandez

Reviews and Awards

"An invaluable guide for readers, including students, practitioners, researchers, and community members, towards understanding the strengths and challenges of this methodology through practical examples, and a great resource for the application of proven CBPR methods to public health challenges." - American Journal of Clinical Nutrition