Related Links - Community and University Partnerships

Association of Asian Pacific Community Health Organizations (AAPCHO)

AAPCHO has released Community-Based Participatory Research: A Health Center Toolkit with Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders.  This toolkit is intended as a handbook for community health centers (CHCs) and researchers interested in collaborative research activities.   The toolkit contains an array of useful information for working with any community.

The Center for Excellence in Assisted Living (CEAL) and the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research/University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC)

CEAL and UNC co-sponsored the publication of A Manual for Community-Based Participatory Research: Using Research to Improve Practice and Inform Policy in Assisted Living.  This manual explains the principles and methods of CBPR, how to develop a CBPR collaboration, how to put CBPR into action, how to collect and analyze data in a CBPR framework, and how to evaluate and sustain CBPR collaborations.   

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

Children’s Environmental Health Centers

University-community partnerships were an integral part of the research process in all the Children’s Environmental Health Centers.

Community-Campus Partnerships for Health (CCPH)

This non-profit organization with a network of over 17,000 communities and campuses.  The CCPH Web site offers a number of resources for developing effective community-academic partnerships.  It also highlights successful case studies.

Community-Campus Partnerships for Health (CCPH)

Examining Community-Institutional Partnerships for Prevention Research Group

The Examining Community-Institutional Partnerships for Prevention Research Group created Developing & Sustaining CBPR Partnerships: A Skill-Building Curriculum, an evidence-based curriculum in intended as a tool for partnerships that are using or planning to use a CBPR approach to improving health.  Units cover stages of a CBPR partnership from getting started to sustaining the partnership.

National Institute for Health (NIH), National Institute for Environmental Health Science (NIEHS)

Environmental Justice: Partnerships for Communication Program

The Environmental Justice: Partnership for Communication Program Web site highlights grantees and their publications.

Princeton University

Community Based Learning Initiative and Bonner Foundation

CBRnet.org is a Web site dedicated to connect community-based research practitioners.  This Web site includes a Wiki forum, announces opportunities in CBPR, and has a wealth of resources.

Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)

CIHR defines knowledge translation as “a dynamic and iterative process that includes synthesis, dissemination, exchange, and ethically sound application of knowledge to improve the health of Canadians…”  CIHR has announced three learning modules on knowledge translation:  1) A Guide to Researcher and Knowledge-User Collaboration in Health Research; 2) Introduction to Evidence-Informed Decision Making; and 3) Critical Appraisal of Intervention Studies

American Public Health Association (APHA)

Community-Based Public Health Caucus (CBPHC)

APHA’s CBPHC is guided by the belief that Community lies at the heart of public health, and that interventions work best when they are rooted in the values, knowledge, expertise, and interests of the community itself.  The CBPHC works in conjunction with the National Community-Based Organization Network (NCBON), who encourage the growth and development of community-based organizations (CBOs).

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation National Program & University of Colorado at Denver

The Recent Publications Regarding Community Based Participatory Research (CBPR): Annotated Bibliography was created to educate the reader about the history, definition, key components, execution, and utility of CBPR.