• Sarah Hicks, Bonnie Duran, Nina Wallerstein, Magdalena Avila, Lorenda Belone, Julie Lucero, Maya Magarati, Elana Mainer, Diane Martin, Michael Muhammad, John Oetzel, Cynthia Pearson, Puneet Sahota, Vanessa Simonds, Andrew Sussman, Greg Tafoya, and Emily White Hat.
• National Indian Child Welfare Association, USA.
• Prog Community Health Partnersh. 2012 Jan 1; 6 (3): 289-99.

BackgroundSince 2007, the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) Policy Research Center (PRC) has partnered with the Universities of New Mexico and Washington to study the science of community-based participatory research (CBPR). Our goal is to identify facilitators and barriers to effective community-academic partnerships in American Indian and other communities, which face health disparities.ObjectivesWe have described herein the scientific design of our National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded study (2009-2013) and lessons learned by having a strong community partner leading the research efforts.MethodsThe research team is implementing a mixed-methods study involving a survey of principal investigators (PIs) and partners across the nation and in-depth case studies of CBPR projects.ResultsWe present preliminary findings on methods and measures for community-engaged research and eight lessons learned thus far regarding partnership evaluation, advisory councils, historical trust, research capacity development of community partner, advocacy, honoring each other, messaging, and funding.ConclusionsStudy methodologies and lessons learned can help community-academic research partnerships translate research in communities.

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