Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR)

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Community-based participatory research (CBPR) is a unique and evolving area of medical research. CBPR is a collaborative field in which scientific researchers and community members of a population work jointly to address diseases, environmental, and other health conditions that affect that population. This is especially helpful when addressing health disparities that play a powerful role in social determinants of healthcare. A key aspect that makes CBPR unique in the research realm is that the community stakeholders are equal partners with the scientists. “CBPR is a cyclical and iterative process that includes building partnerships and community trust, community assessment, problem definition, development of research methodology, data collection, and analysis, interpretation of data, determination of action and policy implications, dissemination of results, action, and plans for sustainability.”