Improving Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander health: national organizations leading community research initiatives.
BACKGROUND
Functionally, many CBPR projects operate through a model of academic partners providing research expertise and community partners playing a supporting role.


OBJECTIVE
To demonstrate how national umbrella organizations deeply rooted in communities, cognizant of community needs, and drawing on the insights and assets of community partners, can lead efforts to address health disparities affecting their constituents through research.


METHODS
Case studies of two Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander national organizations.


RESULTS
Strategically engaging a diverse range of partners and securing flexible funding mechanisms that support research were important facilitators. Main challenges included limited interest of local community organizations whose primary missions as service or health care providers may deprioritize research.


CONCLUSIONS
Efforts to make research relevant to the work of community partners and to instill the value of research in community partners, as well as flexible funding mechanisms, may help to promote community-driven research.
Asian & Pacific Islander American Health Forum.
Won Kim
WK
Cook
Rosy Chang
RC
Weir
Margeurite
M
Ro
Kathy Lim
KL
Ko
Sela
S
Panapasa
Roxanna
R
Bautista
Lloyd
L
Asato
Chung
C
Corina
Jeffery
J
Cabllero
Nadia
N
Islam
D001213:Asian; D057191:Capacity Building / Q000379:methods; D055812:Community-Based Participatory Research / Q000379:methods / Q000458:organization & administration*; D003159:Community-Institutional Relations; D054521:Cultural Competency; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000379:methods / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006302:Health Services Research / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards; D054624:Health Status Disparities; D006801:Humans; D017057:Medically Uninsured / Q000208:ethnology; D044468:Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander; D019982:Organizational Case Studies; D011203:Poverty / Q000208:ethnology; D014481:United States; D000078329:Workforce