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Alice Ammerman, DrPH, RD1, Meera Viswanathan, PhD2, Eugenia Eng, DrPH3, Gerald Gartlehner, MD, MPH4, Kathleen N. Lohr, PhD2, and Lucille Webb, MEd5. (1) Department of Nutrition, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1700 Airport Road, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, 919-966-6082, Alice_Ammerman@unc.edu, (2) Health, Social and Economics Research, RTI International, 3040 Cornwallis Rd., Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, (3) Health Behavior and Health Education, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, Rosenau Hall - Campus Box 7440, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7400, (4) Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 725 Airport Road, CB# 7590, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, (5) Strengthening the Black Family, Inc., Box 28716, 568 East Lenoir Street, Raleigh, NC 27611
Objectives: This paper focuses on the following questions addressed in a systematic review of CBPR: a) What criteria should high quality grant applications meet?, b) What guidance can be offered to funding organizations and applicants?, c) Who should be involved in the review process, including the role of the community?, and d) What are current approaches by funders to soliciting and reviewing CBPR grant proposals?
Review and Recommendations: Currently a limited number of funding opportunities specific to CBPR are available. Guidelines for applicants and reviewers of health-related grant proposals often fail to specify requirements for or inform the evaluation of high quality CBPR. Program officers for funding agencies recommend that clear guidelines and training opportunities are needed for both applicants and reviewers, particularly when involving non-academic community partners.
We first outlined the application of CBPR to the primary research elements of: assembling a research team, defining the question, obtaining funding, selecting a research design, participant recruitment and retention, data collection, intervention design, analysis and interpretation, and dissemination of the research products. We focused on benefits of CBPR to researchers and the community as well as potential research challenges. Based on this framework, we used NIH guidelines and input from a variety of individuals involved with the grant application and review process at the federal level to assemble documents to help guide applicants and reviewers: 1) CBPR Reviewer and Applicant Guideline, 2) CBPR Reviewer checklist, 3) CBPR Requests for Applications and Peer Review. These documents are designed to ultimately increase the volume and quality of CBPR
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Keywords: Community-Based Public Health, 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.