Introduction to Community-Engaged Research

Required Reading:

1. Green LW. (2008). Making research relevant: if it is an evidence-based practice, where’s the practice-based evidence? Fam Pract. Dec;25 Suppl 1:i20-4. Epub 2008 Sep 15.
2. Minkler M. (2005). Community-based research partnerships: challenges and opportunities. J Urban Health. Jun;82 (2 Suppl 2):ii3-12.
3. Westfall, J.M., Fagnan, L.J., Handley, M., Salsberg, J., McGinnis, P., Zittleman, L.K. and Macaulay A.C. 2009 Practice-Based Research is Community Engagement. Journal of American Board of Family Practice, 22(4), 423-427
4. Handley, M., Pasick, R., Potter, M., Oliva, G., Goldstein, E. Nguyen, T., (2009). Community-Engaged Research: A Quick-Start Guide for Researchers. From the Series: UCSF Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) Resource Manuals and Guides to Community-Engaged Research, P. Fleisher, ed. Published by Clinical Translational Science Institute Community Engagement Program, University of Ca

Optional Reading:

1. Israel, BA, Schulz, AJ, Parker, EA, et al. (1998). Review of community-based research: assessing partnership approaches to improve public health. AnnualReview of Public Health, 19, 173-202.
2. CBPR Brief

Note/Slide Files: Epi_248_Final_Project_template.doc (23 KB) Epi_248_overview.doc (74 KB) Lecture_1.ppt (297 KB)

Assignment:
Finalize definition of community, research question, and begin course worksheet.
Assignment Due Date: 1/11/10

Community Entrée Skills

Required Reading:

1. CTSI Report: Researchers and Their Communities: The Challenge of Meaningful Community Engagement. (2009) CTSA Consortium’s Community Engagement Key Function Committee.
2. CCPH Principles of Partnership.
3. Tervalon M., Murray-Garcia J. (1998). Cultural humility versus cultural competence: a critical distinction in defining physician training outcomes in multicultural education.. Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved. (9)2: 117-125,

Note/Slide Files: Lecture_2.ppt (144 KB)

Assignment:
Entrée plan
Assignment Due Date: 1/18/10

Community-Engaged Research Design

Required Reading:

1. Community-engaged Research with Community-Based Clinicians: A Resource Manual for Researchers. Contributors: Handley M., Potter M., Goldstein E., Mold J., Fagnan L., Croughan M. Ed Fleisher, P. 2010 UCSF CTSI, San Francisco, CA.
2. Creswell
3. Hseih
4. Zittleman

Note/Slide Files: Lecture_3.ppt (371 KB) somali_refugee_CBPR.pdf (406 KB)

Assignment:
Research Design and justification
Assignment Due Date: 1/25/10

Community-Engaged Data Collection and Analysis

Required Reading:

1. Community Survey. (Bayview/Hunter’s Point Health & Environmental Assessment Task Force)
2. Responsibility for HIV Prevention: Patterns of Attribution Among HIV-Seropositive Gay and Bisexual Men. (Offer, et al)
3. Mission Teen Health Project – Community Report
4. Health Center: Scaling up an innovative colon cancer screening intervention in the CHN primary care clinics. (Potter, Yu)

Note/Slide Files: Lecture_4.ppt (55 KB)

Assignment:
How can community stakeholders participate in the instrument development?
How can community stakeholders participate in data analysis/interpretation?
Assignment Due Date: 2/07/10

Dissemination and Implementation

Required Reading:

1. Glasgow RE, Vogt TM, Boles SM. (1999). Evaluating the public health impact of health promotion interventions: the RE-AIM framework Am J Public Health. Sep;89 (9):1322-7.
2. Fernández-Peña JR, Moore L, Goldstein E, DeCarlo P, Grinstead O, Hunt C, Bao D, Wilson H. (Summer 2008). Making sure research is used: Community-generated recommendations for disseminating research via non-traditional venues. Progress in Community Health Partnerships: Research, Education and Action..
3. Recommendations for Research Dissemination. (Spring 2006). UCSF Center for AIDS Prevention Studies, Community Advisory Board.
4. Dissemination samples

Optional Reading:

1. Dissemination resources
2. Planning tool
3. CARE dissemination strategies
4. Implementation research synthesis
5. Translation of an Efficacious Cancer-Screening Intervention to Women Enrolled in a Medicaid Managed Care Organization
6. An Introduction to Effectiveness, Dissemination and Implementation Research

Note/Slide Files: Lecture_5.ppt (460 KB)

Assignment:
Develop dissemination plan using worksheet that will be reviewed in class. Identify 2-3 questions on CHR application or community contracting issues for next week’s speakers.
Assignment Due Date: 2/8/10

Assignment Files: Dissemination_worksheet.doc (90 KB)

Logistics of Partnership: Committee on Human Research, and Contracts and Grants considerations

Assignment:
Completed community-engaged research worksheet.
Assignment Due Date: 2/15/10