title: Developing a collaborative community, academic, health department partnership for STD prevention: the Gonorrhea Community Action Project in Harlem.
abstract: Community interventions are rare in the field of sexually transmitted disease (STD) control and prevention. The goals of the Gonorrhea Community Action Project are to design and implement interventions for the reduction of gonorrhea in high-prevalence areas and to increase the appropriateness and effectiveness of STD care in the participating formative research and developing the interventions was the creation of a community-academic-health department collaborative partnership. Using a staged model, this article presents a case study of collaboration development in the community of Harlem, New York.
authors.affiliation: Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA.
authors.forename: Nancy
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: VanDevanter
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hennessy
authors.forename: Joyce Moon
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Howard
authors.forename: Amy
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bleakley
authors.forename: Michele
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Peake
authors.forename: Sarah
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Millet
authors.forename: Alwyn
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Cohall
authors.forename: Deborah
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Levine
authors.forename: Isaac
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Weisfuse
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Fullilove
mesh_terms: D003151:Community Health Centers / Q000458:organization & administration*; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D006069:Gonorrhea / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D006801:Humans; D009519:New York City / Q000453:epidemiology; D015995:Prevalence; D011314:Preventive Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D016730:Program Development; D015980:Public Health Practice; D012581:Schools, Public Health / Q000458:organization & administration*