Increasingly, active community participation is being recognized as a critical component needed to address health disparities among racial and ethnic minority groups. Community-based participatory research (CBPR) is a collaborative process between individuals from the target community or community-based organizations and academic investigators through which the community is acknowledged as the primary unit of identity, efforts are developed and implemented to enhance the existing strengths of the community, collaborative relationships between the academic institution and community partners are fostered throughout the entire research process, and knowledge that is gained through the partnership is translated into specific action. A key goal of CBPR is to enhance a community's ability to address important health issues through the development of effective interventions that can be maintained over time. Despite the importance of CBPR in addressing health disparities, community stakeholders have had limited involvement in designing, implementing, and evaluating interventions designed to improve health outcomes among ethnic and racial minority groups. In response to RFA-MD-05-002, Community Participation in Health Disparities Intervention Research, we are seeking a planning grant to support the development, implementation, evaluation and dissemination of interventions designed to address health disparities in cancer and cardiovascular-related diseases among African Americans through intervention research that is conducted collaboratively between representatives from community-based organizations in Philadelphia and multidisciplinary academic investigators from the University of Pennsylvania as a part of the """"""""West Philadelphia Consortium to Address Disparities."""""""" The specific aims of this planning grant are to: (1) develop infrastructure for community and academic researchers to undertake joint intervention research to address disparities in cancer and cardiovascular-related diseases among African Americans in West Philadelphia; (2) identify and prioritize concerns for cancer and cardiovascular-related diseases among African American residents in West Philadelphia; (3) develop, implement, and evaluate pilot interventions designed to address disparities in cancer and cardiovascular-related diseases using CBPR approaches; (4) develop resources to facilitate academic and community research partnerships in West Philadelphia; and (5) develop and implement strategies for disseminating results of interventions to residents in West Philadelphia. These activities will provide a solid foundation upon which interventions designed to address disparities can be developed in partnership between community stakeholders and academic investigators. ? ?
| Halbert, Chanita Hughes; Bellamy, Scarlett; Briggs, Vanessa et al. (2017) A comparative effectiveness education trial for lifestyle health behavior change in African Americans. Health Educ Res 32:207-218 |
| Rice, LaShanta J; Jefferson, Melanie; Briggs, Vanessa et al. (2017) Discordance in perceived risk and epidemiological outcomes of prostate cancer among African American men. Prev Med Rep 7:1-6 |
| Halbert, Chanita Hughes; Gattoni-Celli, Sebastiano; Savage, Stephen et al. (2017) Ever and Annual Use of Prostate Cancer Screening in African American Men. Am J Mens Health 11:99-107 |
| Rice, LaShanta J; Hughes, Brenda; Briggs, Vanessa et al. (2016) Perceived Efficacy and Control for Neighborhood Change: the Cross-Cutting Role of Collective Efficacy. J Racial Ethn Health Disparities 3:667-675 |
| Halbert, Chanita Hughes; Melvin, Cathy; Briggs, Vanessa et al. (2016) Neighborhood Satisfaction and Colorectal Cancer Screening in a Community Sample of African Americans. J Community Health 41:38-45 |
| Melvin, Cathy L; Saef, Steven H; Pierce, Holly O et al. (2016) Health Information Exchange in the ED: What Do ED Clinicians Think? South Med J 109:419-26 |
| Halbert, Chanita Hughes; Bellamy, Scarlett; Briggs, Vanessa et al. (2014) Collective efficacy and obesity-related health behaviors in a community sample of African Americans. J Community Health 39:124-31 |
| Halbert, Chanita Hughes; Briggs, Vanessa; Bowman, Marjorie et al. (2014) Acceptance of a community-based navigator program for cancer control among urban African Americans. Health Educ Res 29:97-108 |
| Halbert, Chanita Hughes; Bellamy, Scarlett; Briggs, Vanessa et al. (2014) Intervention completion rates among African Americans in a randomized effectiveness trial for diet and physical activity changes. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 23:1306-13 |
| Weathers, Benita; Barg, Frances K; Bowman, Marjorie et al. (2011) Using a mixed-methods approach to identify health concerns in an African American community. Am J Public Health 101:2087-92 |
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