• Barbara A Israel, Chris M Coombe, Rebecca R Cheezum, Amy J Schulz, Robert J McGranaghan, Richard Lichtenstein, Angela G Reyes, Jaye Clement, and Akosua Burris.
• Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA. ilanais@umich.edu
• Am J Public Health. 2010 Nov 1; 100 (11): 2094-102.

AbstractThere have been increasing calls for community-academic partnerships to enhance the capacity of partners to engage in policy advocacy aimed at eliminating health disparities. Community-based participatory research (CBPR) is a partnership approach that can facilitate capacity building and policy change through equitable engagement of diverse partners. Toward this end, the Detroit Community-Academic Urban Research Center, a long-standing CBPR partnership, has conducted a policy training project. We describe CBPR and its relevance to health disparities; the interface between CBPR, policy advocacy, and health disparities; the rationale for capacity building to foster policy advocacy; and the process and outcomes of our policy advocacy training. We discuss lessons learned and implications for CBPR and policy advocacy to eliminate health disparities.

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