PREV 625 COMMUNITY-BASED PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH METHODS
This course provides a comprehensive understanding of the ways in which social scientists, health professionals and community members can collaborate to address public health problems through research that leads to improvements in health, quality of life and community change. Students and faculty from multiple scholarly disciplines examine the approaches to community-based participatory research that goes beyond the domain of a single discipline. Students receive training in the skills needed to apply mixed methods (qualitative and quantitative) of approaches to designing, implementing and evaluating public health programs and community-based participatory research. Attention is given to the scholarly debates and practical/logistical issues in conducting community-based participatory research. Ethical principles of social justice are applied to public health program planning and evaluation which uses community-based participatory methodology. Required for students in the Community and Population Health concentration of the MPH program.