Tendulkar Shalini A, Chu Jocelyn, Opp Jennifer, Geller Alan, Digirolamo Ann, Gandelman Ediss, Grullon Milagro, Patil Pratima, King Stacey, Hacker Karen
Institute for Community Health, Cambridge Health Alliance, MI, USA.
Prog Community Health Partnersh. 2011 Spring;5(1):35-44. doi: 10.1353/cpr.2011.0005.
The National Institutes of Health-funded Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSA) have increasingly focused on community-engaged research and funded investigators for community-based participatory research (CBPR). However, because CBPR is a collaborative process focused on community-identified research topics, the Harvard CTSA and its Community Advisory Board (CERAB) funded community partners through a CBPR initiative.
We describe lessons learned from this seed grants initiative designed to stimulate community-academic CBPR partnerships.
The CBPR program of the Harvard CTSA and the CERAB developed this initiative and each round incorporated participant and advisory feedback toward program improvement.
Although this initiative facilitated relevant and innovative research, challenges included variable community research readiness, insufficient project time, and difficulties identifying investigators for new partnerships.
Seed grants can foster innovative CBPR projects. Similar initiatives should consider preliminary assessments of community research readiness as well as strategies for meaningful academic researcher engagement.
美国国立卫生研究院资助的临床与转化科学奖（CTSA）越来越关注社区参与研究，并为基于社区的参与性研究（CBPR）的研究人员提供资金。然而，由于CBPR是一个专注于社区确定的研究主题的协作过程，哈佛CTSA及其社区咨询委员会（CERAB）通过一项CBPR倡议为社区合作伙伴提供了资金。
我们描述了从这项旨在促进社区-学术CBPR伙伴关系的种子基金倡议中吸取的经验教训。
哈佛CTSA的CBPR项目和CERAB制定了这项倡议，每一轮都纳入了参与者和咨询反馈以改进项目。
尽管这项倡议促进了相关和创新研究，但挑战包括社区研究准备程度不一、项目时间不足以及难以确定新伙伴关系的研究人员。
种子基金可以促进创新的CBPR项目。类似的倡议应考虑对社区研究准备程度进行初步评估以及让学术研究人员有意义参与的策略。
