Engaging African American women in research: an approach to eliminate health disparities in the African American community.

Objective: To explore the success of community-based participatory research [CBPR] in engaging African American women to achieve health equity by elucidating community, trust, communication and impact. Recommendations helpful for researchers interested in engaging communities to achieve health equity in the USA are included.

Inroduction: African American women experience health disparities of multifactorial etiology and are underrepresented in research.