Course Description
The goal of this community-based research course is to provide students with an overview of theories, principles, and strategies associated with Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) within the context of public health and lifespan health. CBPR is an approach to conducting research to address community-level needs.
Athena Title
CBPR and Public Health
Semester Course Offered
Offered spring
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Student learning Outcomes
- Students will be able to assess and articulate the value of community organization engagement in research and evaluation.
- Students will be able to identify strengths and limitations in community-based research, including scientific and ethical strengths and limitations.
- Students will be able to critique peer review journal articles related to the fidelity and scientific-contributions of community-based research principles, process, and implementation.
- Students will be able to apply the basic steps in community engaged research: collaborative identification of community need, conception of research questions, identification of data collection instruments (qualitative and quantitative), and collaborative data analysis and dissemination (with community partners).
Topical Outline
- Intro: Understanding Community-Based Research, Principles, Terminology
- Community Based Participatory Research Principles and Design
- Partner Readiness, Developing and Maintaining Partnerships
- Making an Impact: Co-Identifying Needs, Mutual Goals, and Expectations with Community Partners, an Eye to Social Justice
- Finding an “in”; Recruitment and Retention
- Planning and Conducting the Research; Leveraging Formative Work
- Collaborative Data Analysis and Interpretation of Findings
- Sustainability; Scaling; and Making a Lasting Impact
- Ethics, Challenges, and Opportunities; IRB considerations
