If we want more evidence-based practice, we need more practice-based evidence.*

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*Participatory and Other Practice-Based Research and Evaluation

Video and slide presentation on practice-based research and closing the gap between research and practice: Lecture at McGill University's PRAM, Montreal, Oct 24, 2006. Also at University of Waterloo on occasion of Honorary Doctor of Science degree, Waterloo, Ontario, Oct 21, 2006 (Slides only).

New and Revamped Doctor of Public Health (Dr.P.H.) programs reorienting to practice-based research and leadership

The schools of public health at the University of California at Berkeley and Johns Hopkins University, among others, have recast their DrPH programs in recognition of the growing need for a body of evidence that would complement the more academically- oriented and -based research with practice-based, community-based and participatory research emphases on the needs and capacities of communities and local practitioners to contribute to the knowledge. New DrPH programs are developing at Emory University's Rollins School of Public Health and at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, for example. This trend promises to reverse the gradual disappearance of DrPH degree programs in some schools of public health as they were perceived to be increasingly indistinguishable from PhD programs and Doctor of Science programs. Of the 36 schools studied in the 2004 Annual Data Report from the Association of Schools of Public Health, only 1.4 percent of all degrees awarded were the DrPH. The PhD accounted for 7.6 percent of degrees. Making the DrPH more distinct in its function and more relevant to current needs in the field of public health will assure its renewed attractiveness to students enrolling for doctoral-level training in schools of public health. The "leadership" emphasis in most of the new or revamped programs is combined with the practice-based research emphasis, but is the primary purpose in some, such as the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's DrPH in Public Health Leadership.

Online Resources for Faculty Working to Make a Difference in Communities

The Community-Campus Partnerships for Health released the Community-Engaged Scholarship Toolkit, an online resource aiming to provide health professional faculty with a set of tools to carefully plan and document their community-engaged scholarship and produce strong portfolios for promotion and tenure. The toolkit offers guidance, resources, and successful examples of portfolio materials from faculty that have been promoted based on their community-engaged scholarship. The toolkit is available at www.communityengagedscholarship.info.

An audiofile and slides are available from the October 13 webconference: Learning about the New Community-Engaged Scholarship Toolkit. The materials are available on the Community-Campus Partnerships for Health website at http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/pastpresentations.html <http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/pastpresentations.html>

* The recently released report from the Commission on Community-Engaged Scholarship in the Health Professions can be downloaded at http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/kellogg3.html.

* The Community-Engaged Scholarship for Health Collaborative webpage is located at http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/healthcollab.html

* The Community-Engaged Scholarship Listserv, sign up at: https://mailman1.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/comm-engagedscholarship

* The Community-Engaged Scholarship Resources web page: http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/scholarship.html. A document with answers to frequently asked questions about community-engaged scholarship has recently been posted on this page.

From the CCPH homepage (www.ccph.info) one can locate links to the major national calls for action and mandates on university-community engagement, including:

Translation Research and CBPR

The Proceedings from the NIH-CDC Conference on "From Clinical Trials to Community: The Science of Translating Diabetes and Obesity Research," Co-chaired by Lawrence Green and Roland Hiss on January 12-13, 2004 have been posted online at http://www.niddk.nih.gov/fund/other/Diabetes-Translation/conf-publication.pdf.

One of the sessions is entitled Community-Based Participatory Research for Diabetes Translation and Multi-level, Multi-factorial Interventions. Marshall H, Chin, MD, MPH, Associate Professor of Medicine; Director, Prevention and Control Core of the Diabetes Research and Training Center, University of Chicago chaired this session. 

To request a hard copy, please contact Iain Mackenzie, (301) 897-2789 ext 124, imackenzie@thehillgroup.com

The subsequent (May 4-5, 2004) workshop, co-chaired by Lawrence Green (for CDC) and Lawrence Fine (for NIH), on Designs for the Scientific Evaluation of Complex Interventions is online at: http://obssr.od.nih.gov/Conf_Wkshp/Complex%20Interventions.htm. Papers from or building on that conference are forthcoming soon in American Journal of Preventive Medicine.

For other online resources:

Ottawa to Bangkok: A special series addressing the various issues regarding the Ottawa and Bangkok Charters for Health Promotion and titled "Ottawa 1986-Vancouver 2007: Should the Ottawa Charter be revisited ? " is in the Reviews of Health Promotion and Education Online (RHPEO), the electronic journal of the International Union for Health Promotion and Education (IUHPE). "In addition to the latest version of the Bangkok Charter and the official IUHPE position in relation to it, 13 papers in English, French and/or Spanish by a wide variety of authors from around the world including leading thinkers in the field (Mittlemark, Kickbusch, Restrepo, Nutbeam, etc.) offer a variety of opinions about several of the participatory issues as well as about other relevant issues for health promotion. Go and have a look at <www.rhpeo.org>. New papers are added regularly to this series and RHPEO receives an average of about 60,000 hits a month." --Michel O'Neill, Editor in Chief, RHPEO

Review of community-based participatory research: Viswanathan M, Ammerman A, Eng E, et al. Community-Based Participatory Research: Assessing the Evidence. Evidence Report/Technology Assessment No. 99 (Prepared by RTI University of North Carolina Evidence-based Practice Center under Contract No. 290-02-0016). AHRQ Publication 04-E022-2. Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. July 2004. Available at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/bv.fcgi?rid=hstat1a.chapter.44133. Accessed February 3, 2005. A summary of this report is available at: http://www.ahrq.gov/clinic/epcsums/cbprsum.htm.

and the guidelines for participatory research.

A new online journal, Implementation Science, will focus on translating research into improved patient care.  

Federal grants in participatory research

From NIH: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-MD-05-002.html on CBPR in reducing health disparities (2006, 2007). 

Executive Summary

• The ultimate goal of this RFA is to support intervention research on health disparities that is jointly conducted by communities and researchers.
• This RFA will utilize the NIH resource-related research projects (R24) grant award mechanism.
• The total amount to be awarded is $4.5 million.
• The anticipated number of awards is 5-10.
• Eligible organizations include not-for-profit and for-profit, public or private organizations, units of state and local governments, eligible agencies of the Federal Government, domestic institutions/organizations, faith-based or community-based organizations, and Native American tribal organizations.
• Eligible principal investigators are any individuals with the skills, knowledge, and resources necessary to carry out the proposed research.
• Each applicant may submit only one application in response to this RFA.
• The PHS 398 application instructions are available at http://grants.nih.gov/grants/funding/phs398/phs398.html in an interactive format. For further assistance contact GrantsInfo, Telephone (301) 435-0714, Email: GrantsInfo@nih.gov.

The complete program announcement is available online at:

http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-05-026.html

Applications are due on May 17, 2007.

To stay up on the latest community-based participatory research (CBPR) news and announcements, subscribe to the CBPR listserv at https://mailman1.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/cbpr

For more resources on CBPR, visit

http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/commbas.html

Canada

The Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR) Partnership Award recognizes partnerships that exemplify excellence by bringing health research communities together to create innovative approaches to research; develop research agendas that are responsive to the health needs of Canadians; and/or accelerate the translation of knowledge for the benefit of Canadians. The emphasis of the award is on innovative cross-sectoral partnerships that promote excellence.

Partnerships will be assessed on the basis of the following criteria:

- Overall contribution to advancing health research and the improved health of Canadians, more effective health services and products and a strengthened Canadian health care system;

- Demonstrated results that would not have been achieved by individual partners acting alone;

- A relationship of mutual trust, respect, and commitment, including positive communication and mechanisms for continuous improvement;

- Maximizing strengths and assets of each partner, ultimately strengthening all partner organizations; and

- Sharing of credit, among all partners, for the partnership's accomplishments.

The eligibility criteria can be found at <http://www.cihr-irsc.gc.ca/e/27367.html>

From Rand:

Getting To Outcomes 2004: Promoting Accountability Through Methods and Tools for Planning, Implementation, and Evaluation

Matthew Chinman, Pamela Imm, Abraham Wandersman

Participatory research in tobacco control 

Mercer SL, MacDonald G, Green LW. Participatory Research and Evaluation: From Best Practices for All States to Achievable Practices Within Each State in the Context of the Master Settlement Agreement. Health Promotion Practice 2004; 5(3):167S-178S. Click here for abstract.

Commission on Community-Engaged Scholarship in the Health Professions 

With funding from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, Community-Campus Partnerships for Health convened a Commission in 2004 to provide leadership in creating more supportive cultures and reward systems for health professional faculty involved in community-based participatory research, service learning and other forms of "community-engaged scholarship."  For a copy of the Commission report and recommendations, send an e-mail to Jennifer Kauper-Brown (jenbr@u.washington.edu). 

Now Available, online Proceedings from The National Symposium on Community-University Partnerships: Translating Evidence into Action, cosponsored by HUD's Office of University Partnerships and Community-Campus Partnerships for Health on April 26, 2003.

New Books:   Fetterman & Wandersman (Eds.) Empowerment Evaluation: Principles in Practice.

For Guilford Press (2005) description and table of contents, click here.

Exploring Challenges, Progress, and New Models for Engaging the Public in the Clinical Research Enterprise: Clinical Research Roundtable Workshop Summary. Based on a Workshop of the IOM Clinical Research Roundtable, Jessica Aungst, Amy Haas, Alexander Ommaya, Lawrence W. Green, Editors.  98 pages, 8.5 x 11, National Academies Press, 2003.   Full Full text free online. Minkler & Wallerstein's new book on Community-Based Participatory Research for Health, now available from Jossey-Bass, contains the Guidelines for Participatory Research as Appendix C.   San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2003. www.josseybass.com

Grants for community-based participatory research made by the Office of Science and Extramural Research, Public Health Practice Program Office, CDC.

The inaugural issue of the online CDC journal, Preventing Chronic Disease, 2004, features an article by David Katz:

Katz on Community Participatory Research.

Cargo, et al. 2003, on fostering empowerment of youth through a participatory research project.

CDC's Futures Initiative Workgroup on Public Health Research, co-chaired by Lawrence W. Green & Tanja Popovich, has released its draft report in which participatory research is featured as one characteristic of future CDC-sponsored research that will help achieve CDC's primary purpose of applying science to practice and policy. E-mail txp1@cdc.gov for a copy.

PRECEDE-PROCEED

For a recent slide presentation on the evolution of the PRECEDE-PROCEED, click here.

A Japanese version of the model, called MIDORI in Japanese, is online at http://homepage1.nifty.com/PRECEDE-PROCEED/midori.html. The Japanese translation of the 2nd edition and a new translation of the 4th edition are available in print. 

A summary of the Model and its applications, by Kelly McCormick Brown.

A new tool for assessing sidewalk maintenance as an environmental support of physical activity. Click on this title for an abstract of the article by Joel Williamson et al in Health Promotion Practice, January 2005, describing the development and testing of the instrument as an approach to creating "environments that predispose, enable, and reinforce behavior change and maintenance." To download a copy of the instrument and others related to physical activity promotion, click here.

Latest description of program development of the Kahnawake Schools Diabetes Prevention Project, a community-based participatory research and intervention project, which was based in part on the Precede-Proceed Model and extended some of the social ecological approaches of planning, see Lesvesque, et al., 2005. 

New Features and Updated Citations in 4th Edition of Health Program Planning: An Educational and Ecological Approach, 2005. Chapter 3 (formerly chapters 3 & 4 in 3rd edition) combines the behavioral and environmental diagnosis into the epidemiological diagnosis. Chapter 5 provides a greatly expanded set of procedures ("matching, mapping, pooling, and patching") for bridging the diagnostic and formative evaluation steps of needs assessment in the first 4 chapters with the actual formulation of interventions and process evaluation of programs at multiple ecological levels. 

Recent applications of Precede or Precede-Proceed Model published in 2003-05. Newest published applications added to bibliography up to Nov 7, 2005, include:

   Best et al., 2003, on integrating models for community partnering in effective strategy;

    Brouse et al., 2004, on colorectal cancer screening;

   Cargo et al., 2003, on youth participatory research;

   Chabot et al., 2003, and Cote et al., 2003, on pharmacists' interventions in hypertension; 

        see also Cote et al's 2004 comparison of quality-of-life measures in same study.

   Chang et al., 2004 & 2005 on measures & predictors of fat intake behavior in WIC mothers;

    Chiang et al., 2004; Liu & Feekery, 2001, on asthma;

    Coleman et al., 2003, on breast cancer screening;

    Coppieters, 2003, on professional perceptions of asthma in youth;

   Cross et al., 2003; Gielen & Sleet, 2003; Farley et al., 2003, on injury control applications;

   Darrow et al., 2004, on HIV/AIDS prevention.

    Dewar et al., 2003, on nominal group process with chronic pain patients;

   Gary et al., 2003, on diabetes control in African-American community;

   Green & Kreuter, 2005, the 4th edition of PRECEDE-PROCEED, McGraw-Hill; 

    Kegler & Miner, 2004, on environmental health promotion;

   Kukafka et al., 2003, on developing the user interface of information technology systems;

    Lesvesque, et al., 2005, on development of a schools diabetes prevention project;

    Lovato et al., 2003, on evaluation of the EMPOWER interactive software;

    Mercer et al., 2003, on obesity control;

    Mirand et al., 2003, on physicians' de-prioritization of prevention in primary care;

    Ozer et al., 2005, on increasing physicians' counseling of adolescents;

    Paluck et al., 2003, on patient communications in pharmacies;

    Parent et al., 2004, on planning for health science teaching in the Congo;

    Ramey et al., 2003, on cardiovascular risk control in law enforcement officers;

     Wright et al., 2006, on community youth mental illness prevention;

    Zimmerman et al., 2004, on physicians' use of influenza vaccination for elderly.

Public Health Headlines, Milestones, 1999-2006

On our home page, we feature the most recent public health headlines. As new headlines crowd older ones off our front page, we archive them chronologically here, providing a list of milestones for the current year, each with a link to the fuller story. Some of the links are to newspapers that remove the full story from direct access after a few weeks, so that you will need to register with the newspaper's web site to gain access to the full story, and some even require payment or subscription to access their archives. 

Besides these recent public health headlines, setting-specific news and milestones for occupational and worksite health can be found at the end of the Health Program Planning Endnotes for Chapter 7; for school settings at the end of Chapter 8, and for medical care settings at the end of Chapter 9 Endnotes. For other topic-specific headlines and milestones of earlier vintage, go to the relevant chapter in Community and Population Health. Public health and behavioral health headlines from 1999 (when the previous editions of Community and Population Health and Health Promotion Planning were published) through 2004 can be accessed below the 2005-2006 headlines. For 2005-06 headlines, scroll down or click the 2005 months: January, February, March, April, May June July, Aug, Sept-Dec.