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Engaging the Community: Community-Based Participatory Research and Team Science

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This chapter describes the potential for incorporating community partner perspectives into contemporary team science by recounting contributions made by community–researcher partnerships characteristic of community-based participatory research (CBPR). These CBPR partnerships look similar to cross-disciplinary academic teams in their histories and imperatives to create shared leadership, mutual benefit, and multidirectional trust and respect. First, we define and then situate CBPR within the range of community-engaged research practices and discuss the opportunities as well as challenges for CBPR and community-engaged research (CEnR) to become established within Academic Health Science centers and clinical translational science award (CTSA) infrastructures. We will share summary results of CTSA surveys about community engagement, from the academic perspective and from community perspectives on barriers they continue to face. An in-depth example will be shared of a successful community–academic partnership that grew from a pilot study to a large-scale clinical and population intervention center. We will end with a CBPR conceptual model that showcases how cross-disciplinary teams are needed to describe the richness of contexts in which research take place, to frame the development and use of measures and metrics to evaluate partnerships, and to identify promising participatory practices associated with research and health outcomes. Recommendations are provided for engagement of community partners within the cross-disciplinary team science enterprise.

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  • 03 March 2020

    The published version of the book has missed to include the corresponding authors’ e-mail address for chapters 14, 35 and 44. Affiliation correction provided for the author Dr. Milton Eder in chapter 9 has been missed to update in the list of contributors. The affiliation detail for the author Dr. Stephen M were published incorrectly in chapter 33. Also, the text in the Abstract section which reads “(cite other chapters in team science book).” was not removed during the copy editing stage. These errors have been corrected, and the text has been updated in the book.

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    http://cpr.unm.edu/research-projects/cbpr-project/cbpr-model.html; https://engageforequity.org

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    http://cpr.unm.edu/research-projects/cbpr-project/cbpr-e2.html

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  1. College of Population Health, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA

    Nina Wallerstein

  2. Center for Participatory Research, Health Sciences Center, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA

    Nina Wallerstein

  3. Michigan Institute for Clinical & Health Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

    Karen Calhoun

  4. Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, Office of Community Engagement to Advance Research and Community Health, Clinical and Translational Science Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA

    Milton Eder

  5. The Trauma and Grief Center, Texas Children’s Hospital, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA

    Julie Kaplow

  6. Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA

    Consuelo Hopkins Wilkins

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Wallerstein, N., Calhoun, K., Eder, M., Kaplow, J., Wilkins, C.H. (2019). Engaging the Community: Community-Based Participatory Research and Team Science. In: Hall, K., Vogel, A., Croyle, R. (eds) Strategies for Team Science Success. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20992-6_9

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