The Healthy Community Neighborhood Initiative: Rationale and Design.

Objective: To describe the design and rationale of the Healthy Community Neighborhood Initiative (HCNI), a multi-component study to understand and document health risk and resources in a low-income and minority community.

Design: A community-partnered participatory research project.

Setting: A low-income, biethnic African American and Latino neighborhood in South Los Angeles.

Strategies to Build Trust and Recruit African American and Latino Community Residents for Health Research: A Cohort Study.

Background: This study used Community Partnered Participatory Research (CPPR) to address low participation of racial and ethnic minorities in medical research and the lack of trust between underrepresented communities and researchers.

Methods: Using a community and academic partnership in July 2012, residents of a South Los Angeles neighborhood were exposed to research recruitment strategies: referral by word-of-mouth, community agencies, direct marketing, and extant study participants.

Results: Among 258 community members exposed to recruitment strategies, 79.