Alliance Discussion with Dr. Karen Andes, Director of the MPH Program, Associate Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences, Brown University

Community-Based Participatory Research for Public Health: Challenges, Opportunities, and Approaches

Dr. Karen Andes, Director of the MPH Program, Associate Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences at Brown University, joined us to explain the principles of community-based participatory research (CBPR), and provide a brief overview of participatory approaches to public health research, particularly as related to working with special or under-resourced populations. She discussed some of the challenges in applying CBPR as well as the unique opportunities that participatory research presents as compared to traditional research approaches in prioritizing the lived experience of participants. In addition, she highlighted the advantages of engaging with communities using arts-based approaches and provided examples of effective empirical applications.