Community Based Participatory Research in Public Health programs

Posted by on July 29, 2005

On May 9 and 10, the Education Committee of the Association of Schools of Public Health held a meeting to discuss responses to the Institute of Medicine’s recent reports on the future of public health. One of the topics for discussion was CBPR, as the IOM recommends that CBPR be incorporated into the Master’s of Public Health curriculum.

A panel of presentation on CBPR helped to focus the discussion. Powerpoints corresponding to the titles/presenters below are available at http://www.asph.org/document.cfm?page=870

Overview and Principles of CBPR
Joyce Moon Howard
Center for Applied Public Health and the Harlem Health Promotion Center
Department of Sociomedical Sciences
Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health

Challenges to Successful CBPR: Competencies in Developing Community Partnerships
Cleopatra Howard Caldwell
Department of Health Behavior & Health Education
School of Public Health
University of Michigan

In the Classroom: The Process and Experience of Teaching CBPR
Sharyne Shiu-Thornton
Department of Health Services
University of Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine

Harlem Community Academic Partnership: CBPR. A Multilevel Outcome Analysis Following a Multi-Component Intervention in Treatment and Comparison Communities.
David Vlahov
Center for Urban Epidemiologic Studies
New York Academy of Medicine
Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University