title: Building Collaborative Health Promotion Partnerships: The Jackson Heart Study.
abstract: Building Collaborative Health Promotion Partnerships: The Jackson Heart Study.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  Building a collaborative health promotion partnership that effectively employs principles of community-based participatory research (CBPR) involves many dimensions. To ensure that changes would be long-lasting, it is imperative that partnerships be configured to include groups of diverse community representatives who can develop a vision for long-term change. This project sought to enumerate processes used by the Jackson Heart Study (JHS) Community Outreach Center (CORC) to create strong, viable partnerships that produce lasting change.
  
  
  METHODS
  JHS CORC joined with community representatives to initiate programs that evolved into comprehensive strategies for addressing health disparities and the high prevalence of cardiovascular disease (CVD). This collaboration was made possible by first promoting an understanding of the need for combined effort, the desire to interact with other community partners, and the vision to establish an effective governance structure.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The partnership between JHS CORC and the community has empowered and inspired community members to provide leadership to other health promotion projects.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Academic institutions must reach out to local community groups and together address local health issues that affect the community. When a community understands the need for change to respond to negative health conditions, formalizing this type of collaboration is a step in the right direction.
authors.affiliation: Jackson Heart Study, School of Public Health, Jackson State University, 350 W. Woodrow Wilson Drive, Jackson, MS 39213, USA. clifton.addison@jsums.edu.
authors.forename: Clifton C
authors.initials: CC
authors.lastname: Addison
authors.affiliation: Jackson Heart Study, School of Public Health, Jackson State University, 350 W. Woodrow Wilson Drive, Jackson, MS 39213, USA. brenda.w.campbell@jsums.edu.
authors.forename: Brenda W
authors.initials: BW
authors.lastname: Campbell Jenkins
authors.affiliation: Jackson Heart Study, School of Public Health, Jackson State University, 350 W. Woodrow Wilson Drive, Jackson, MS 39213, USA. darcel.thigpen@jsums.edu.
authors.forename: Darcel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Odom
authors.affiliation: Jackson Heart Study, School of Public Health, Jackson State University, 350 W. Woodrow Wilson Drive, Jackson, MS 39213, USA. marty.fortenberry@jsums.edu.
authors.forename: Marty
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Fortenberry
authors.affiliation: Jackson Heart Study, School of Public Health, Jackson State University, 350 W. Woodrow Wilson Drive, Jackson, MS 39213, USA. gregory.wilson@jsums.edu.
authors.forename: Gregory
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Wilson
authors.affiliation: Jackson Heart Study, School of Public Health, Jackson State University, 350 W. Woodrow Wilson Drive, Jackson, MS 39213, USA. lavon.young@jsums.edu.
authors.forename: Lavon
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Young
authors.affiliation: Jackson Heart Study, School of Public Health, Jackson State University, 350 W. Woodrow Wilson Drive, Jackson, MS 39213, USA. donna.antoine-lavigne@jsums.edu.
authors.forename: Donna
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Antoine-LaVigne
mesh_terms: D001741:Black or African American / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D055812:Community-Based Participatory Research / Q000458:organization & administration*; D003159:Community-Institutional Relations; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000458:organization & administration*; D054624:Health Status Disparities; D006801:Humans; D008913:Minority Groups / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D008922:Mississippi
keywords: community-based partnership and collaboration; community-based research (CBPR)