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Community-Based Participatory Research Training

Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) is a collaborative approach to research that involves community members or recipients of interventions during all phases of the research process and recognizes the unique strengths that each member of the research team brings.

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Goals

This free course, sponsored by the UR CTSI and Center for Community Health & Prevention, educates University researchers and community members in community-engaged research. It introduces CBPR principles from the foundations to communication, funding, and sustainability and fosters relationship-building among participants. Through the program, participants will form collaborative teams to develop and submit proposals for the CBPR Pathway to Pilot Awards.

By the end of the program, participants will:

  • Understand the rationale for a CBPR approach in addressing health research.
  • Describe the conceptual and philosophical roots of community-based participatory health research.
  • Understand and apply the core principles of CBPR in developing, maintaining, and evaluating community-academic research partnerships.
  • Evaluate the importance of governance structure, cultural humility, and participatory evaluation in the design and implementation of CBPR as strategies to address power dynamics and ethical issues appropriately.
  • Explain and experience the process and challenges of forming and maintaining CBPR partnerships with communities.
  • Assess the ethical challenges in co-conducting research with communities.
  • Identify and discuss the benefits and challenges involved in CBPR and options for overcoming these challenges.
  • Explore CBPR as a strategy to address social justice, policy, or systems-change issues.

Contact

For more information or questions, please contact Laura Sugarwala, MBA, RD, Director of Community Health Partnerships.

How to Apply

Applications are currently closed and will open again in June, 2025. 

Eligibility

University researchers (including faculty, trainees, and students) and community members (typically from community-based organizations) are eligible to apply.

Cost

There is no cost to take the course.

This course is not currently accepting applicants.

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Resources

Principles of Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR)

Learn more about the principles of CBPR developed by the URMC Community Advisory Board. 

Online Course on CBPR: A Partnership Approach for Public Health

Visit the Detroit Urban Research Center to take their free online course on CBPR.

Past Projects

2019

Collaborating with Caregivers: Factors that Influence the Decision to Begin Mental Health Treatment for Children in Urban Communities
Aparajita “Tuma” Kuriyan, Ph.D., postdoctoral fellow of Psychiatry at URMC; Alicia Evans, independent community consultant with LeGray Dynamic; and Carlos Santana, community organizer for Action for a Better Community, Inc.

The Prevalence of Loneliness in Minority Communities with Chronic Medical Conditions
Allen Anandarajah, M.D., associate professor of Allergy, Immunology & Rheumatology at URMC; Nancy Shelton, senior consultant of Cultural Competence and Health Equity at Coordinated Care Services, Inc.; and Angela Wollschlager, community outreach project lead and patient engagement specialist at Medical Solutions, Inc.

Faith-based Interventions to Support Health-Promoting Behaviors and Reduce Overweight and Obesity Rates in African American Families
Ruth Brook Wards, Aenon Baptist Church, and Kaydean Harris, RN, School of Nursing

Other graduates include: Ms. Jean Clark and Caroline Silva, Ph.D.

Current Course

Schedule

Date & Time Session Presenters

9/10/2024
4:30 - 5:30 pm
In person

Initial meeting with learning cohort

Laura Sugarwala and/or John Cullen

9/17/2024
4:30 - 5:30 pm
In Person

Group Meeting

  • Getting to know each other as people
  • Establishing group norms
  • What skills/abilities do we bring to CBPR  partnerships

Laura Sugarwala and/or John Cullen

9/24/2024
3:30 - 5:30 pm
In person

Module 1: CBPR Foundations - Getting Grounded

Sherita Bullock, Healthy Baby Network
Jin Xiao, URMC

10/1/2024
3:30 - 5:30 pm
In Person

Module 2: CBPR in the Real World – What’s a Good Research Question

Phyllis Jackson, Common Ground Health
Syliva Sorensen, URMC

10/8/2024
4:30 - 5:30 pm
In person

Group Meeting

  • Building trust within the group
  • Assumptions about the group
  • Learn strategies for collaborative listening and speaking.

Laura Sugarwala and/or John Cullen

10/15/2024
3:30 - 5:30 pm
Virtual

Module 3: Developing a CBPR Partnership – Creating the “Glue” for Relationship Building

Tiffany Lloyd, Allyn Foundation

Brooke Levandowski, URMC

10/22/2024
3:30 - 5:30 pm
Virtual

Module 4: Grants

Margit Brazda Poirer, Grants4Good

10/29/2024
4:30 - 5:30 pm
In person

Group Meeting

Laura Sugarwala and Grace Kumetat

11/12/2024
3:30 - 5:30 pm
Virtual

Module 5: Maintaining a CBPR Partnership – Spreading the “Glue” and Having it Stick

Elizabeth McDade, Rochester ENergy Efficiency & Weatherization (RENEW)

Katrina Korfmacher, URMC

11/19/2024
3:30 - 5:30 pm
Virtual 

Module 6: Applying a CBPR approach through the entire research process/cycle

Community partner

Kelly Matthews, URMC

12/3/2024
4:00 - 5:30 pm
In person

Module 7a: Structural Racism in Healthcare and Research

Mary Bisbee-Burrows, Facilitator, Structural Racism in Healthcare and Research course

12/10/2024
3:30 - 5:30 pm
Virtual

Module 8: Understanding, Reporting and Disseminating Results

Jeff Freeman, Common Ground Health

Charles Kamen, URMC

12/17/2024
4:00 - 5:30 pm
In person

Module 7b: Structural Racism in Healthcare and Research

Mary Bisbee-Burrows, Facilitator, Structural Racism in Healthcare and Research course

1/07/2025
3:30 - 5:30 pm
Virtual

Module 10: Equity, Dissemination, Implementation

Jim McMahon, URMC
Reza Yousefi-Nooraie, URMC
Kevin Fiscella, URMC

1/14/2025
3:30 - 5:30 pm
Virtual

Module 11: Cancer Research Case Study

Francisco (Paco) Cartujano, URMC

1/21/2025
4:30 - 5:30 pm
In person

Group Meeting  

Lauren Spiker, 13thirty

AnnaLynn Williams, URMC

1/28/2025
3:30 - 5:30 pm
Virtual

Module 12: Grants and evaluation Part #2

Colin Flemming-Stumpf, Rochester Regional Health

2/04/2025
2/11/2025 
2/18/2025
2/25/2025

4:30 - 5:30 pm

Group meetings as needed to prepare for application to CBPR P2P grant application. Meeting location (i.e. virtual or in person) to be determined.

Laura Sugarwala and/or John Cullen

TBD

Pathways to Pilot Application Due

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