Antiracism and Community-Based Participatory Research: Synergies, Challenges, and Opportunities.

Am J Public Health

Paul J. Fleming, Melissa S. Creary, Barbara A. Israel, and Amy J. Schulz are with the School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Lisa Cacari Stone and Nina Wallerstein are with the College of Population Health, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. Ella Greene-Moton is with Community Based Organizations Partners, Flint, MI. Kent D. Key is with the Division of Public Health, Michigan State University, East Lansing. Angela G. Reyes is with the Detroit Hispanic Development Corporation, Detroit, MI.

Published: January 2023

Structural racism causes stark health inequities and operates at every level of society, including the academic and governmental entities that support health research and practice. We argue that health research institutions must invest in research that actively disrupts racial hierarchies, with leadership from racially marginalized communities and scholars. We highlight synergies between antiracist principles and community-based participatory research (CBPR), examine the potential for CBPR to promote antiracist research and praxis, illustrate structural barriers to antiracist CBPR praxis, and offer examples of CBPR actions taken to disrupt structural racism. We make recommendations for the next generation of antiracist CBPR, including modify health research funding to center the priorities of racially marginalized communities, support sustained commitments and accountability to those communities by funders and research institutions, distribute research funds equitably across community and academic institutions, amplify antiracist praxis through translation of research to policy, and adopt institutional practices that support reflection and adaptation of CBPR to align with emergent community priorities and antiracist practices. A critical application of CBPR principles offers pathways to transforming institutional practices that reproduce and reinforce racial inequities. (. 2023;113(1):70-78. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2022.307114).

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