Hiring the experts: best practices for community-engaged research.
Community-engaged approaches to research and practice continue to show success in addressing health equity and making long-term change for partnership relationships and structures of power. The usefulness of these approaches is either diminished or bolstered by community trust, which can be challenging for partnerships to achieve. In this research note we present an example process for recruiting, interviewing, and hiring community researchers as a starting place for capacity building and for laying the foundation for data collection and analysis in health-related community projects.
Northern Arizona University, USA.
Lisa J
LJ
Hardy
Northern Arizona University, USA.
Amy
A
Hughes
Northern Arizona University, USA.
Elizabeth
E
Hulen
Flagstaff Medical Center, USA.
Alejandra
A
Figueroa
Sunnyside Neighborhood Association, USA.
Coral
C
Evans
Northern Arizona University, USA.
R Cruz
RC
Begay
community-engaged research; health equity; health partnerships; medical anthropology; qualitative research