title: The mother-daughter health collaborative: a partnership development to promote cancer education.
abstract: Creating meaningful partnerships with community partners to address cancer disparities remain challenging and a work in progress. This paper examines what started as the traditional formation of an academic-community partnership and evolved well beyond the initial research tasks. We evaluate the partnership process, which includes assessments by the members of the Mother-Daughter Health Collaborative, focusing on how partnership involvement in the data analysis process contributed to a sense of ownership and urgency about providing cancer education. The work of partnership is on-going, fluid, and challenging.
authors.affiliation: Department of Social and Behavioral Health, Virginia Commonwealth University, School of Medicine, McGuire Hall Annex, 1112 East Clay Street, Richmond, VA 23298, USA. mmosavel@vcu.edu
authors.forename: Maghboeba
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Mosavel
authors.forename: Teleangé
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Thomas
authors.forename: Kimberly
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Sanders
authors.forename: Lydia
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Hill
authors.forename: Marcia
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Johnson
mesh_terms: D001741:Black or African American; D055812:Community-Based Participatory Research; D003159:Community-Institutional Relations; D005190:Family; D005260:Female; D006266:Health Education / Q000379:methods*; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000208:ethnology*; D011203:Poverty; D014495:Universities