Community Engagement and Community-Based Participatory Research, Part 2 of 3

>> Tiffany Powell-Wiley: Hello, my name is Dr. Tiffany Powell-Wiley, and I'm Chief of the Social Determinants of Obesity and Cardiovascular Risk Laboratory at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. Today I'll be talking about community engagement and community based participatory research. And this is part two of a three-part series. In this session, I will provide definition and rationale

for community based participatory research or CBPR. I will then go into key principles for community engagement in CBPR, core values of CBPR and the application of the CBPR approach. The term community based participatory research is used to acknowledge and emphasize the participation, influence, and control of nonacademic researchers, in partnership with academic researchers,

to create knowledge and change through research studies. And this approach is designed to equitably involve community members, community organizations, and academic researchers in all aspects of the research process. CBPR enables all partners to contribute and involves conducting research that recognizes the community as a social and cultural entity with active engagement and influence of community members in all research --

in all parts of the research process.

So, what is the rationale for community based participatory research? CBPR has become quite necessary, as there's a greater recognition for the need for community driven research to address health disparities. CBPR is based on a fundamental understanding of the importance of local and cultural contexts in the development of clinical research that has external validity and can reach those who are