This report is the product of a collaboration between the School of Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley, and PolicyLink, a national research and action institute advancing economic and social equity by Lifting Up What Works.®
With its commitment to evidence-based research, diversity, community partnerships, and moving from “publication to public action,” the School shares with PolicyLink a deep interest in ensuring that the findings of scholarly research are translated and used in ways that can promote the public’s health and well-being. Increasingly, however, we in academia are realizing that for some of the most complex and challenging public health problems we face, simply translating findings after the fact is not enough. Rather, research is needed that is community based rather than simply community placed and in which community members and other stakeholders are actively involved with formally trained researchers in studying and addressing health and social problems and promoting equity.
In the pages that follow, we share 10 case studies of diverse community-based participatory research (CBPR) partnerships around the United States that have in common a commitment to foster healthy public policy. The 10 partnerships examined—in areas as diverse as South Los Angeles, California; New Castle, Indiana; Harlem, New York; and Tillery, North Carolina—were selected from among more than 75 CBPR projects originally considered by our staff and advisory committee members. The projects deal with topics that range from environmental justice and food insecurity to disability rights and the desire for “small p” policies that “make the healthy choice the easy choice.”
English PDF: https://www.policylink.org/sites/default/files/CBPR_PromotingHealthyPublicPolicy_final.pdf
