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Building and Sustaining Community-Institutional Partnerships for Prevention Research: Findings from a National Collaborative

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The Examining Community-Institutional Partnerships for Prevention Research Project began in October 2002 with funding from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Research Center Program Office through a cooperative agreement between the Association of Schools of Public Health and the CDC. The three-year project aimed to synthesize knowledge about community-institutional partnerships for prevention research and to build community and institutional capacity for participatory research. These ten organizations collaborated on the project because they were all involved in community-institutional partnerships for prevention research, had access to research and evaluation data on these partnerships, and believed that the shared learning and action that would result through a collaborative effort could significantly advance collective knowledge about partnerships and lead to substantive capacity-building responses: the Community Health Scholars Program, Community-Based Public Health Caucus of the American Public Health Association, Community–Campus Partnerships for Health, Detroit Community-Academic Urban Research Center, Harlem Health Promotion Center, National Community Committee of the CDC Prevention Research Centers Program, New York Urban Research Center, Seattle Partners for Healthy Communities, Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center and the Wellesley Institute. This paper reports on the project’s findings, including common characteristics of successful partnerships and recommendations for strengthening emerging and established partnerships.

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  1. All partner organizations except the Community-Based Public Health Caucus of APHA, the Harlem Health Promotion Center and the Wellesley Institute contributed relevant data (the Wellesley Institute joined the partnership after this phase of the project had been completed). “Relevant data” included published articles, reports, program evaluations and community advisory board meeting minutes that could help to answer the four guiding questions.

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Acknowledgments

Funding for the Examining Community-Institutional Partnerships for Prevention Research Project was provided by the Prevention Research Centers Program at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) through a cooperative agreement between the CDC and the Association of Schools of Public Health. We especially thank Eduardo Simoes, Lynda Anderson, Sharrice White and Robert Hancock at the CDC for their support.

We also thank these current and former board members, staff and others affiliated with project partners who contributed to the data used for the project and in some cases reviewed drafts of this paper: Community Health Scholars Program (Alex Allen, Stephanie Farquhar and Kaytura Felix-Aaron); Detroit Community-Academic Urban Research Center (Alex Allen, Adam B. Becker, Wilma Brakefield-Caldwell, Maggie DeCarlo, J. Ricardo Guzman, Barbara Higman, Yolanda Hill, Detroit Health Department, Gerald Keeler, Toby C. Lewis, Richard Lichtenstein, Murlisa Lockett, Erminia Ramirez, Thomas Robins, Zachary Rowe, Sharon Sand, Anna Santiago, Donald Softley, Graciela Villalobos, Edna Viruell-Fuentes, Melina Williams and Rochelle Wills); New York Urban Research Center (Ann Boyer, Robert Brackbill, Eric Canales Jose E. Caraballo, Matilda Cruz, Vincent Edwards Mary Foley, Princess Fortin Nick Freudenberg, Crystal Fuller Ingrid Gonzalez, Js. Shariff Geter, Veronica Jones, Joanne King, Laurell Lasenberg, Mary Latka Angel Leal, Gail Love, Pat Monahan, Glady Moreira, Sr. Mary Nerney, Ann-Gel Palermo, Elvin Parson, Mildred Pinot, Erica Phillips, Michael Poulson, Tahirah Rashid, Cassandra Ritas, Sharon Stancliff, and Olga Vargas); and Seattle Partners for Healthy Communities (Carol Allen, Allen Cheadle, Stella Chao, Sanders Chai, Noel Chrisman, Carol Collins, Phillip Dickey, Bookda Gheisar, Stella Gran-O’Donnell, Donna Higgins, Dieu-Hien Hoang, Ahoua Kone, Caroline Lanza, Chau Nguyen, Martine Pierre-Louis, Rachel Robinson, Ellie Rose, Mohamed Saireh, Jim Schier, Molly Shaw, Sharyne Shiu-Thornton, Lin Song, Clarence Spigner, Marcus Stubblefield, Marianne Sullivan, Tim K. Takaro and Marcia Weaver).

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The Examining Community-Institutional Partnerships for Prevention Research Group is the corporate author of this paper. The individuals who comprise the Group are listed here in alphabetical order by the partner organization they were affiliated with at the time the study reported on in this paper was completed in January 2004: Community Health Scholars Program (Irene S. Bayer, Diane Calleson and Michael Reece); Community-Based Public Health Caucus of the American Public Health Association (Adele Amodeo); Community–Campus Partnerships for Health (Stacy L. Holmes, Sarena D. Seifer and Nancy Shore); Detroit Community-Academic Urban Research Center (Barbara A. Israel, Paula Lantz, Barbara Maciak, Robert McGranaghan, Edith A. Parker, Amy Schulz and Michael Spencer); Harlem Health Promotion Center (Richard Mack); National Community Committee of the CDC Prevention Research Centers Program (Lynda Anderson, Ella Greene-Moton, E. Yvonne Lewis, Dan McLinden and Sharrice White); New York Urban Research Center (Sandro Galea, Sarah Sisco and David Vlahov); Seattle Partners for Healthy Communities (Sandra Ciske, Alison Eisinger, James Krieger, Kirsten Senturia and Gary Tang); Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center (Kari Hartwig, David Katz and Margo Zaharek).

An erratum to this article can be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11524-006-9140-8

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Seifer, S.D. Building and Sustaining Community-Institutional Partnerships for Prevention Research: Findings from a National Collaborative. J Urban Health 83, 989–1003 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11524-006-9113-y

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