309797
Social Justice Approaches in Community Based Participatory Research
ID#: 309797
Authors: Sanchez-Youngman, Wallerstein, Muhammad, Vicuna, Avila, Sussman, Tafoya, Lucero
Presenter: Shannon Sanchez-Youngman
Contact information: santerry@unm.edu
This presentation will discuss how CBPR can emerge as a social justice strategy that leverages the intersection of research, practice, and policies to eliminate health disparities. While case studies highlight how specific partnerships improve discrete inequities through policy change and procedural representation, there has been less discussion about how CBPR integrates health concerns into a broader racial and socio-economic justice agenda. This presentation illuminates how CBPR can navigate tensions between a commitment to social equity and still stay within research goals to advance the science of reducing health disparities. We compare how three long-term partnerships have each taken a unique social justice approach through situating their partnerships within their political-economic, historical, and cultural contexts. Findings from interviews and a new innovative methodology of situating partnerships within historical timelines will be presented from the Research for Improved Health (RIH) project, a national mixed methods cross-site CBPR study. The RIH study (2009-2013), an NIH-collaborative study between the National Congress of American Indians Policy Research Center, and the Universities of New Mexico and Washington, conducted an internet survey of 200 partnerships and seven in-depth case studies nationwide.
Learning Areas:
Advocacy for health and health educationDiversity and culture
Public health or related public policy
Public health or related research
Social and behavioral sciences
Learning Objectives:
Describe how Community Based Participatory research undertakes a social justice approach to eliminate health disparities.
Analyze the development of social justice frameworks in community academic research partnerships with theoretical models of how social, economic, and racial contexts shape partnership action.
Provide examples of historical timelines to illustrate how situating work within specific social and historical determinants can contribute to social justice strategies to tackle health disparities.
Keyword(s): Community-Based Research (CBPR), Social Justice
Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I am a Robert Wood Johnson Center Doctoral Fellow and have expertise in health and social policy in the United States. Over the last five years, I have participated in several federally funded grants related to Community Based Participatory Research and social inequities in the US. Among my scientific interests has been to identify policy strategies that potentially moderate the effects of race and class on health.
Any relevant financial relationships? No
I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.