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Carol L. McAllister, PhD, Beth L. Green, PhD, Martha Ann Terry, PhD, Vivian Herman, MSW, LSW and Laurie Mulvey, MSW, ACSW

Carol L. McAllister and Martha Ann Terry are with the Department of Behavioral and Community Health Sciences, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pa. Beth L. Green is with Northwest Professional Consortium, Portland, Ore. Vivian Herman and Laurie Mulvey are with the Family Foundations Early Head Start Program, Office of Child Development, University of Pittsburgh, Pa. Carol L. McAllister, Beth L. Green, Vivian Herman, and Laurie Mulvey are members of the National Early Head Start Research Consortium.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Carol L. McAllister, PhD, 220 Parran Hall, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15261 (e-mail: allister{at}pitt.edu).

Community-based participatory research (CBPR) is an approach to research and evaluation that is receiving increased attention in the field of public health. Our report discusses the application of this approach to research and evaluation with an Early Head Start (EHS) program in Pittsburgh, Pa. Our primary purpose is to illustrate the key elements that contributed to effective collaboration among researchers, EHS practitioners, and parents of EHS children in the conduct of the study. The focus is not on research findings but on research process. Our goal is to make the practices of CBPR visible and explicit so they can be analyzed, further developed, and effectively applied to a range of public health issues in a diversity of community contexts.

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