title: Community-based participatory research: a capacity-building approach for policy advocacy aimed at eliminating health disparities.
abstract: There have been increasing calls for community-academic partnerships to enhance the capacity of partners to engage in policy advocacy aimed at eliminating health disparities. Community-based participatory research (CBPR) is a partnership approach that can facilitate capacity building and policy change through equitable engagement of diverse partners. Toward this end, the Detroit Community-Academic Urban Research Center, a long-standing CBPR partnership, has conducted a policy training project. We describe CBPR and its relevance to health disparities; the interface between CBPR, policy advocacy, and health disparities; the rationale for capacity building to foster policy advocacy; and the process and outcomes of our policy advocacy training. We discuss lessons learned and implications for CBPR and policy advocacy to eliminate health disparities.
authors.affiliation: Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA. ilanais@umich.edu
authors.forename: Barbara A
authors.initials: BA
authors.lastname: Israel
authors.forename: Chris M
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Coombe
authors.forename: Rebecca R
authors.initials: RR
authors.lastname: Cheezum
authors.forename: Amy J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Schulz
authors.forename: Robert J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: McGranaghan
authors.forename: Richard
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Lichtenstein
authors.forename: Angela G
authors.initials: AG
authors.lastname: Reyes
authors.forename: Jaye
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Clement
authors.forename: Akosua
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Burris
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D057191:Capacity Building; D055812:Community-Based Participatory Research / Q000379:methods / Q000458:organization & administration; D003159:Community-Institutional Relations; D005260:Female; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006291:Health Policy; D054624:Health Status Disparities; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008824:Michigan; D017146:Models, Organizational; D010344:Patient Advocacy / Q000193:education; D011050:Policy Making; D020377:Self Efficacy; D012922:Social Change; D055815:Young Adult