Addressing urban health in Detroit, New York City, and Seattle through community-based participatory research partnerships.

Objective: This study describes key activities integral to the development of 3 community-based participatory research (CBPR) partnerships.

Methods: We compared findings from individual case studies conducted at 3 urban research centers (URCs) to identify crosscutting adaptations of a CBPR approach in the first 4 years of the partnerships' development.

Results: Activities critical in partnership development include sharing decision-making, defining principles of collaboration, establishing research priorities, and securing funding.

Qualitative process evaluation of urban community work: a preliminary view.

Community-based and participatory research have become significant activities during the past 15 years as public health practitioners and researchers have sought new ways to provide effective disease prevention and health promotion programs. It is also important that more examples of evaluation schemes be contributed for field testing. The process evaluation model offered here was based on an eclectic literature search because the evaluators did not know what directions this Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)-funded Urban Research Center would take and wanted to be thorough.