Collaborating to address infant mortality: lessons learned from the Brownsville action community for health equality.

Background: Brownsville Action Community for Health Equality (BACHE) is a coalition-based, service system change pilot for African American and Puerto Rican women of Brownsville, a community within Brooklyn, New York, with disproportionately high rates of infant mortality.

Objectives: Identify "lessons learned" from the implementation phase of a 5-year pilot project that employs a community-based participatory (CBPR) approach to reducing risk factors for infant mortality.

Methods: Nineteen semi-structured interviews were conducted with BACHE's partners throughout 2010.