Meredith Minkler, DrPH, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, 168 Highland Blvd., Kensington, CA 94708, 510 642-4397, mink@uclink.berkeley.edu

The Institute of Medicine recently named community-based participatory research (CBPR) as one of 8 new areas in which schools of public health should offer training. Combining education, systematic inquiry and action for community and social change, CBPR both increases the relevance of research for studying and addressing complex health problems and offers a fertile new area for teaching engaged scholarship as an approach to addressing health disparities. This session will describe a seminar in CBPR for health at UC Berkeley and its use of field internships, critical case studies and other approaches to enable students to understand and experience this approach. Pedagogical efforts to address ethical and methodological dilemmas in CBPR and the challenges of using short internships in ways that respect and contribute to ongoing CBPR efforts also will be discussed.

Learning Objectives:

• Define community based participatory research and the three dimensions which comprise this approach.
• Identify three ethical or methodological dilemmas in CBPR and how they may be addressed pedagogically.
• Describe two advantages and two limitations of field placements as an approach to experiential learning in CBPR.

Keywords: Community-Based Partnership,

Presenting author's disclosure statement:
I do not have any significant financial interest/arrangement or affiliation with any organization/institution whose products or services are being discussed in this session.