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December 2001, Vol 91, No. 12 | American Journal of Public Health 1926-1929
© 2001 American Public Health Association

COMMUNITY-BASED PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH

Can Public Health Researchers and Agencies Reconcile the Push From Funding Bodies and the Pull From Communities?

Lawrence W. Green, DrPH and Shawna L. Mercer, PhD

At the time of writing, Lawrence W. Green and Shawna L. Mercer were with the Office on Smoking and Health, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Ga. Shawna L. Mercer is also a postdoctoral fellow of the Canadian Institutes for Health Research and the Canadian Health Services Research Foundation.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Lawrence W. Green, DrPH, Office of Extramural Prevention Research, Public Health Practice Program Office, CDC, 4770 Buford Hwy NE, Mail Stop K-56, Atlanta, GA 30341-3724 (e-mail: lgreen{at}cdc.gov).

Responding to growing impatience with the limited application of research findings to health practices and policies, both funding bodies and communities are demanding that research show greater sensitivity to communities' perceptions, needs, and unique circumstances. One way to assure this is to employ participatory research—to engage communities at least in formulating research questions and interpreting and applying research findings and possibly also in selecting methods and analyzing data.

"Community" should be interpreted broadly as all who will be affected by the research results, including lay residents of a local area, practitioners, service agencies, and policymakers. Participatory research should not be required of every project, but when results are to be used for, in, and by communities, those communities should collaborate not only in applying findings but also in determining the ways in which the findings are produced and interpreted.




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