title: African American community health advisors trained as research partners: recruitment and training.
abstract: The African American community has played an influential role in generating change. Grass-roots organizations and concerned individuals can be included in programs designed to increase cancer awareness and cancer early detection practices to ultimately eliminate cancer disparities. The utilization of a formalized Community Health Advisors program can be an infrastructure by which effective cancer prevention and control programs can be conducted in underserved African American communities. The purpose of this article is to outline the steps necessary to develop an infrastructure for recruitment and training of grass-root African Americans to serve as Community Health Advisors trained as Research Partners.
authors.affiliation: Comprehensive Cancer Center-Deep South Network for Cancer Control, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, 35294-0001, USA. claudia.hardy@ccc.uab.edu
authors.forename: Claudia M
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Hardy
authors.forename: Theresa A
authors.initials: TA
authors.lastname: Wynn
authors.forename: Francine
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Huckaby
authors.forename: Nedra
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Lisovicz
authors.forename: Freddie
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: White-Johnson
mesh_terms: D001741:Black or African American; D000407:Alabama; D002986:Clinical Trials as Topic; D003153:Community Health Services; D019058:Community Networks / Q000458:organization & administration; D003256:Community Participation / Q000379:methods; D003479:Curriculum; D006302:Health Services Research / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D008922:Mississippi; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000517:prevention & control; D010560:Personnel Selection / Q000379:methods*; D016730:Program Development / Q000379:methods; D012577:Schools, Medical; D013663:Teaching / Q000379:methods*; D000078329:Workforce