J Lloyd Michener,Asia Williams,Debra Oto-Kent,Sergio A Aguilar-Gaxiola
{"title":"Community Engagement: A Foundation for Health Equity and Resilience.","authors":"J Lloyd Michener,Asia Williams,Debra Oto-Kent,Sergio A Aguilar-Gaxiola","doi":"10.2105/ajph.2025.308029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2105/ajph.2025.308029","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7647,"journal":{"name":"American journal of public health","volume":"32 1","pages":"S104-S109"},"PeriodicalIF":12.7,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144488004","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Keith T Chan,Emerson Ea,Aparna Kalbag,Lisa Lanza Lopez,Rosemary Li,Soko Setoguchi,Bei Wu,Sunanda Gaur
{"title":"Addressing Gaps in Health Care Delivery Among Asian Americans Through Community-Driven Policy Action.","authors":"Keith T Chan,Emerson Ea,Aparna Kalbag,Lisa Lanza Lopez,Rosemary Li,Soko Setoguchi,Bei Wu,Sunanda Gaur","doi":"10.2105/ajph.2025.308027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2105/ajph.2025.308027","url":null,"abstract":"We describe the application of community engagement in addressing priorities and gaps in health care delivery among Asian American populations through community-driven action, resulting in the development of two policy briefs to be disseminated to policymakers at the local, state, and national levels. The policy briefs highlighted (1) gaps in mental health research and culturally tailored mental health education programs and care and (2) an overall gap in culturally and linguistically tailored evidence-based health care delivery among Asian American populations. (Am J Public Health. 2025;115(S2):S134-S137. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2025.308027).","PeriodicalId":7647,"journal":{"name":"American journal of public health","volume":"31 1","pages":"S134-S137"},"PeriodicalIF":12.7,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144488000","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Enhancing Community Engagement in Research: A Premortem Analysis for Community-Engaged Research.","authors":"Tiffany Haynes,Camille Hart,Tamier Wells,Jennifer Coopwood,Damon Hart,Darnell Rice,Roderick Vincent,Charles Hill,Amanda Benton","doi":"10.2105/ajph.2025.308038","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2105/ajph.2025.308038","url":null,"abstract":"The Barbershop Talk project is a community-based clinical trial testing the effectiveness of barbershop-placed Alcohol Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment in reducing unhealthy drinking among Black men. Although engaging community partners in research effectively reduces health disparities, best practices to support meaningful engagement are needed. This article presents the use of a premortem analysis, a proactive strategy to identify potential pitfalls and design community-based solutions to improve community engagement in the research process. (Am J Public Health. 2025;115(S2):S138-S142. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2025.308038).","PeriodicalId":7647,"journal":{"name":"American journal of public health","volume":"121 1","pages":"S138-S142"},"PeriodicalIF":12.7,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144488002","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Operationalizing Meaningful Community Engagement to Reduce the Burden of Multiple Chronic Conditions.","authors":"Mona AuYoung,Pebbles Fagan,Kim F Rhoads","doi":"10.2105/ajph.2025.308179","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2105/ajph.2025.308179","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7647,"journal":{"name":"American journal of public health","volume":"235 1","pages":"S92-S93"},"PeriodicalIF":12.7,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144488012","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Theodore H Tulchinsky, Aron M Troen, Dorit Nitzan, Ron Lobel, Gordon DeFriese
{"title":"Israel and Gaza: Keeping Room for Hope Based on Past Cooperation in Public Health.","authors":"Theodore H Tulchinsky, Aron M Troen, Dorit Nitzan, Ron Lobel, Gordon DeFriese","doi":"10.2105/AJPH.2025.308190","DOIUrl":"10.2105/AJPH.2025.308190","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7647,"journal":{"name":"American journal of public health","volume":"115 7","pages":"1046-1049"},"PeriodicalIF":9.6,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12160649/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144274003","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Point of View: Portraits of Maternal Mental Health.","authors":"Jennifer Glance, Jeffrey A Nielson","doi":"10.2105/AJPH.2025.308064","DOIUrl":"10.2105/AJPH.2025.308064","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7647,"journal":{"name":"American journal of public health","volume":"115 7","pages":"1034-1036"},"PeriodicalIF":9.6,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12160631/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144274009","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Informal Segregation in Health Care Delivery: Historical, Anecdotal, and Objective Evidence.","authors":"Olveen Carrasquillo","doi":"10.2105/ajph.2025.308028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2105/ajph.2025.308028","url":null,"abstract":"Over the past several decades, our nation has made limited progress toward achieving health equity. One challenge is that health care delivery remains highly segregated by race and ethnicity. Although formal racial segregation officially ended in the 1960s, informal segregation remains widely practiced, accepted, and even justified. I provide historical, anecdotal, and objective data to demonstrate its persistence. I discuss my 40-year journey in segregated health care systems and a brief review of key studies and research on such segregation. I also highlight how despite the ample evidence, pervasive segregation in health care delivery remains an uncomfortable topic that few want to broach or discuss. I note that greater recognition, visibility, and advocacy are needed to address this unfair, unjust, and pervasive practice. I conclude that in the current political climate, being trustworthy and engaging communities in a meaningful way to eliminate disparities means we cannot remain complacent and silent on some of the most deeply rooted challenges to achieving health equity. (Am J Public Health. 2025;115(S2):S148-S151. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2025.308028).","PeriodicalId":7647,"journal":{"name":"American journal of public health","volume":"90 1","pages":"S148-S151"},"PeriodicalIF":12.7,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144488007","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Elizabeth K Towner,Rhonda K Dailey,April Idalski Carcone,Ijioma N Opara,Aisha T Langford,Robinson Salazar Rua,Parada Jordan,Abigale Vaquera,Brandon Crittenden,Suliah Apatira,Karen Young,Dara E Harris,Hayley S Thompson,Deborah A Ellis,Phillip D Levy
{"title":"Building Community Research Capacity to Address Cardiovascular Health Disparities.","authors":"Elizabeth K Towner,Rhonda K Dailey,April Idalski Carcone,Ijioma N Opara,Aisha T Langford,Robinson Salazar Rua,Parada Jordan,Abigale Vaquera,Brandon Crittenden,Suliah Apatira,Karen Young,Dara E Harris,Hayley S Thompson,Deborah A Ellis,Phillip D Levy","doi":"10.2105/ajph.2025.308071","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2105/ajph.2025.308071","url":null,"abstract":"Evidence-based tools that build community capacity to partner across the continuum of research and models for knowledge and skill translation to support community-academic research partnerships are needed. We adapted the Michigan Cancer Healthlink model to derive a curriculum that significantly increased cardiovascular health equity research capacity among Black adults. This curriculum yielded high participation in community-engaged research activities (e.g., grant reviews) in which community members could meaningfully utilize newly acquired skills and knowledge. (Am J Public Health. 2025;115(S2):S143-S147. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2025.308071).","PeriodicalId":7647,"journal":{"name":"American journal of public health","volume":"75 1","pages":"S143-S147"},"PeriodicalIF":12.7,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144488008","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Elizabeth B Lynch,Santosh Basapur,Doriane C Miller,Lisa A Kuklinski,Sheila A Dugan,Christie Edwards,Morris Reed,Dee Atkins,Cecile DeMello,Carlos Nelson,Kathryn Welch,Steven Epting,Elbert S Huang
{"title":"Collaborators in Health: Redefining Research-Community Partnerships, Chicago, 2022-2024.","authors":"Elizabeth B Lynch,Santosh Basapur,Doriane C Miller,Lisa A Kuklinski,Sheila A Dugan,Christie Edwards,Morris Reed,Dee Atkins,Cecile DeMello,Carlos Nelson,Kathryn Welch,Steven Epting,Elbert S Huang","doi":"10.2105/ajph.2025.308082","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2105/ajph.2025.308082","url":null,"abstract":"Effective community-engaged research is critical for designing and testing solutions to decrease the 10-year life expectancy gap between Black and non-Black residents of Chicago, Illinois. In community listening sessions, the Chicago Chronic Conditions Engagement Network found that community members' highest priority health issues were social determinants of health and that there is a strong mistrust of research. Conversations with leaders of community organizations addressing social determinants of health suggest strategies to help researchers overcome mistrust and build effective community-research partnerships. (Am J Public Health. 2025;115(S2):S130-S133. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2025.308082).","PeriodicalId":7647,"journal":{"name":"American journal of public health","volume":"46 1","pages":"S130-S133"},"PeriodicalIF":12.7,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144488011","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Chidinma A Ibe,Katherine B Dietz,Deven Brown,Christian Bunce,Debra Hickman,Erica Shelton,Shang-En Chung,Deidra C Crews,Lisa A Cooper
{"title":"Academic Hegemony and Monitoring of Shared Power in Community-Engaged Research Trials: The Mid-Atlantic Center for Cardiometabolic Health Equity, 2023-2024.","authors":"Chidinma A Ibe,Katherine B Dietz,Deven Brown,Christian Bunce,Debra Hickman,Erica Shelton,Shang-En Chung,Deidra C Crews,Lisa A Cooper","doi":"10.2105/ajph.2025.308188","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2105/ajph.2025.308188","url":null,"abstract":"Objectives. To measure community-engaged research processes used by researchers across 3 trials based on data from a community engagement monitoring and evaluation tool. Methods. The Mid-Atlantic Center for Cardiometabolic Health Equity Community Engagement Core used a tracking form developed by the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Equity to monitor its community-engaged research processes (the frequency and types of engagement activities, the categories of community partners engaged, and the rate at which each study team enacted community partners' recommendations) between February 2023 and June 2024. Results. The 3 trials reported 114 engagement activities, predominated by meetings convened with specific community partners (60.5%). The community partners most frequently engaged included community organizations and local businesses (28.6%), frontline health care workers (27.5%), and health care organizations (19.6%). Recruiting and retaining study participants (28.8%) was the most discussed topic, followed by addressing implementation challenges (20.5%) and recruiting and retaining study sites (20.1%). Study teams implemented community partners' recommendations at an overall rate of 93.1%. Conclusions. Study findings underscore the importance of developing monitoring and evaluation tools that discern whether shared power is achieved in community-engaged research trials and identify opportunities to dismantle academic hegemony. (Am J Public Health. 2025;115(S2):S164-S173. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2025.308188).","PeriodicalId":7647,"journal":{"name":"American journal of public health","volume":"55 1","pages":"S164-S173"},"PeriodicalIF":12.7,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144488006","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}