title: Improving collaboration between researchers and communities.
abstract: Active collaboration between communities and researchers is critical to developing appropriate public health research strategies that address community concerns. To capture the perspectives of inner-city Seattle communities about issues in community-researcher partnerships, Seattle Partners for Healthy Communities conducted interviews with community members from the ethnically diverse neighborhoods of Central and Southeast Seattle. The results suggest that effective community-researcher collaborations require a paradigm shift from traditional practices to an approach that involves: acknowledging community contributions, recruiting and training minority people to participate in research teams, improving communication, sharing power, and valuing respect and diversity.
authors.affiliation: Seattle Partners for Healthy Communities, USA. ahoua.kone@metrokc.gov
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Koné
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Sullivan
authors.forename: K D
authors.initials: KD
authors.lastname: Senturia
authors.forename: N J
authors.initials: NJ
authors.lastname: Chrisman
authors.forename: S J
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Ciske
authors.forename: J W
authors.initials: JW
authors.lastname: Krieger
mesh_terms: D018672:Community Health Planning / Q000458:organization & administration*; D003256:Community Participation; D003159:Community-Institutional Relations; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D018864:Cultural Diversity; D005006:Ethnicity; D006302:Health Services Research; D006801:Humans; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D011361:Professional Competence; D015980:Public Health Practice; D044469:Racial Groups; D014861:Washington