title: The promise of community-based participatory research for health equity: a conceptual model for bridging evidence with policy.
abstract: Insufficient attention has been paid to how research can be leveraged to promote health policy or how locality-based research strategies, in particular community-based participatory research (CBPR), influences health policy to eliminate racial and ethnic health inequities. To address this gap, we highlighted the efforts of 2 CBPR partnerships in California to explore how these initiatives made substantial contributions to policymaking for health equity. We presented a new conceptual model and 2 case studies to illustrate the connections among CBPR contexts and processes, policymaking processes and strategies, and outcomes. We extended the critical role of civic engagement by those communities that were most burdened by health inequities by focusing on their political participation as research brokers in bridging evidence and policymaking.
authors.affiliation: Lisa Cacari-Stone and Nina Wallerstein are with the Public Health Program, Department of Family and Community Medicine, RWJF Center for Health Policy, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. Analilia P. Garcia is with the Santa Clara County Public Health Department, Assessment, Planning & Health Policy Division, San Jose, CA. Meredith Minkler is with the School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley.
authors.forename: Lisa
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Cacari-Stone
authors.forename: Nina
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Wallerstein
authors.forename: Analilia P
authors.initials: AP
authors.lastname: Garcia
authors.forename: Meredith
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Minkler
mesh_terms: D002140:California; D003256:Community Participation; D055812:Community-Based Participatory Research / Q000458:organization & administration*; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D004781:Environmental Exposure / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D004787:Environmental Pollution / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D005006:Ethnicity; D006291:Health Policy; D054624:Health Status Disparities; D006801:Humans; D011050:Policy Making; D011057:Politics; D044469:Racial Groups; D012935:Social Justice