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ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2020

Aligning Community-Engaged Research to Context.

Jonathan K London, Krista A Haapanen, Ann Backus, Savannah M Mack, Marti Lindsey, Karen Andrade

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Article in International journal of environmental research and public health, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

17 citing papers in PubMed.

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  7. Community-Engaged Research in Early Home Visiting: A Scoping Review of Peer-Reviewed Literature.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2025
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Jonathan K LondonUC Davis Department of Human Ecology, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-5478-0880
Krista A HaapanenDepartment of Human and Organizational Development, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37235, USA.
Ann BackusHarvard Chan School of Public Health, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.
Savannah M MackUC Davis Center for Health and the Environment, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-2003-0245
Marti LindseySchool of Pharmacy, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA.
Karen AndradeStanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.

Funding

Translational Research Support CoreP30ES000002 · NIEHS · HARVARD UNIVERSITY (SCH OF PUBLIC HLTH) · PI JAIME ELIZABETH HART · 1985 to 2026
$44.6M
SOUTHWEST ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES CENTERP30ES006694 · NIEHS · UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA · PI DEAN BILLHEIMER · 1994 to 2026
$36.7M
Western Center for Agricultural Health and SafetyU54OH007550 · OH · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT DAVIS · PI FATHALLAH, FADI A · 2011 to 2025
$27.5M
UC Davis Environmental Health Sciences Core CenterP30ES023513 · NIEHS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT DAVIS · PI Ameer Taha · 2015 to 2026
$26.0M
ENVIRONMENTAL TOXICOLOGYT32ES007059 · NIEHS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS · PI Laura S Van Winkle · 1985 to 2026
$7.9M
NIEHS NIH HHS P30 ES000002NIEHS NIH HHS P30 ES006694NIEHS NIH HHS P30 ES023513NIEHS NIH HHS T32 ES007059NIOSH CDC HHS NIOSH U54 0H07550
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Community-engaged research is understood as existing on a continuum from less to more community engagement, defined by participation and decision-making authority. It has been widely assumed that more is better than less engagement. However, we argue that what makes for good community engagement is not simply the extent but the fit or alignment between the intended approach and the various contexts shaping the research projects. This article draws on case studies from three Community Engagement Cores (CECs) of NIEHS-funded Environmental Health Science Core Centers (Harvard University, UC Davis and University of Arizona,) to illustrate the ways in which community engagement approaches have been fit to different contexts and the successes and challenges experienced in each case. We analyze the processes through which the CECs work with researchers and community leaders to develop place-based community engagement approaches and find that different strategies are called for to fit distinct contexts. We find that alignment of the scale and scope of the environmental health issue and related research project, the capacities and resources of the researchers and community leaders, and the influences of the sociopolitical environment are critical for understanding and designing effective and equitable engagement approaches. These cases demonstrate that the types and degrees of alignment in community-engaged research projects are dynamic and evolve over time. Based on this analysis, we recommend that CBPR scholars and practitioners select a range of project planning and management techniques for designing and implementing their collaborative research approaches and both expect and allow for the dynamic and changing nature of alignment.

Indexed as

Environmental HealthUniversitiesCommunity-Based Participatory ResearchNational Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (U.S.)Research DesignUnited Statescommunity based participatory researchcommunity–university partnershipsenvironmental health scienceenvironmental justice

Identifiers

PMID32069817
PMCPMC7068394

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