Community

Increasingly, health funders and policymakers are requiring that those proposing new interventions and related research to demonstrate that there is community involvement in understanding health issues and seeking solutions to:

• Reduce disparities and move toward health equity
• Accelerate the translation of research into practice and policy
• Build a foundation for the sustainability of new interventions and continuous quality improvements

Community is defined as consumers of healthcare and their advocates, traditional and non-traditional providers of healthcare, and local and state policymakers. With the assumption that genuine community-academic partnerships are the best way to improve health locally, the RWJF CSP is committed to not only providing classroom content on community-based participatory research but also encouraging that Scholars spend 15 percent of their time doing a local health research project that applies the principles of community-based participatory research.