title: Crossing the chasm of mistrust: collaborating with immigrant populations through community organizations and academic partners.
abstract: As a community partner and an academic researcher, we experienced the direct and extended benefits of a relatively small-scale, community-engaged informed consent process that developed in an immigrant occupational health study, Assessing and Controlling Occupational Health Risks for Immigrant Populations in Somerville, Massachusetts. The practice of human participants research played a positive role in the community, and both community partners and researchers, as well as the larger academic community, reaped unexpected benefits during the five-year project (2005-2010), which continue into the present. Lessons learned from our experience may be helpful for wider application.
authors.affiliation: Alex Pirie is with the Immigrant Service Providers Group/Health, Somerville, MA. David M. Gute is with the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Tufts University School of Engineering, Medford, MA.
authors.forename: Alex
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Pirie
authors.forename: David M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Gute
mesh_terms: D000046:Academic Medical Centers; D019058:Community Networks; D055812:Community-Based Participatory Research; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D054242:Emigrants and Immigrants; D006630:Hispanic or Latino; D006801:Humans; D008404:Massachusetts; D016272:Occupational Health; D019982:Organizational Case Studies; D011634:Public Health; D035502:Trust