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Suzanne Christopher, PhD, Vanessa Watts, ScM, Alma Knows His Gun McCormick and Sara Young, MEd

Suzanne Christopher, Alma Knows His Gun McCormick, and Sara Young are with Montana State University, Bozeman. Vanessa Watts is with the Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Suzanne Christopher, PhD, 318 Herrick Hall, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT 59717 (e-mail: suzanne{at}montana.edu).

Although intervention research is vital to eliminating health disparities, many groups with health disparities have had negative research experiences, leading to an understandable distrust of researchers and the research process. Community-based participatory research (CBPR) approaches seek to reverse this pattern by building trust between community members and researchers. We highlight strategies for building and maintaining trust from an American Indian CBPR project and focus on 2 levels of trust building and maintaining: (1) between university and community partners and (2) between the initial project team and the larger community. This article was cowritten by community and academic partners; by offering the voices of community partners, it provides a novel and distinctive contribution to the CBPR literature.

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