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Purpose
The purpose of the CBPR Grants Program of the Midwest Division is to foster collaborative partnerships between community members, researchers, and the American Cancer Society to develop, evaluate and disseminate effective interventions and programs designed to reduce the cancer burden, with a special focus on health disparities.1
CBPR Definition and Principles
Community-based participatory research is defined as “… a collaborative partnership between researchers and community members … (that) engages community members at all phases of research, instilling community ownership of both process and product.” 2
There are nine Principles of CBPR3, which have been listed below:
• Recognizes community as an unit of identity
• Builds on strengths and resources within the community
• Facilitates collaborative, equitable involvement of all partners in all phases of the research
• Integrates knowledge and intervention for mutual benefit of all partners
• Promotes a co-learning and empowering process that attends to social inequalities
• Involves a cyclical and iterative process
• Addresses health from both positive and ecological perspectives
• Disseminates findings and knowledge gained to all partners
• Involves long-term commitment by all partners
1 Arble, B, & Moberg, D P. (2006). Participatory research in development of public health interventions. University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute: Translating Research into Policy and Practice, 1(6), Retrieved from http://uwphi.pophealth.wisc.edu/publications/briefReports/briefReportv01n06.
2 Israel BA, Eng E, Schulz AJ, Parker EA. (Eds.) (2005). Methods in Community-Based Participatory Research for Health. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers.
3 The American Cancer Society has adopted the National Cancer Institute definition of cancer health disparities as "differences in the incidence, prevalence, mortality, and burden of cancer and related adverse health conditions that exist among specific populations groups in the United States." Populations that are significantly more likely to experience a heavier cancer burden are distinguished by race/ethnicity, age (elderly), socioeconomic status (working poor), geography and location (rural and central city) and lower educational attainment.
National Cancer Institute , Initials. (2009, August 24). Health disparities defined . http://crchd.cancer.gov/disparities/defined.html
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