Community engagement in research: Frameworks for education and peer review

Syed M. Ahmed, Ann Gel S. Palermo

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Abstract

Community engagement in research may enhance a community's ability to address its own health needs and health disparities issues while ensuring that researchers understand community priorities. However, there are researchers with limited understanding of andexperience with effective methods of engaging communities. Furthermore, limited guidance is available for peer-review panels on evaluating proposals for research that engages communities. The National Institutes of Health Director's Council of Public Representatives developed a community engagement framework that includes values, strategies to operationalize each value, and potential outcomes of their use, as well as a peer-review framework for evaluating research that engages communities. Use of these frameworks for educating researchers to create and sustain authentic community-academic partnerships will increase accountability and equality betweenthe partners.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1380-1387
Number of pages8
JournalAmerican Journal of Public Health
Volume100
Issue number8
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Aug 2010

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