Community-Based Participatory Research Websites

Community-Campus Partnerships for Health (CCPH)
CANHR also has close ties with the CCPH , a nonprofit organization that promotes health through partnerships between communities and higher educational institutions. Founded in 1996, we are a growing network of over 1,800 communities and campuses across North America and increasingly the world that are collaborating to promote health through service-learning, community-based participatory research, broad-based coalitions and other partnership strategies. These partnerships are powerful tools for improving higher education, civic engagement and the overall health of communities.

The National Center for Research Resources (NCRR)
NIH has become a very strong proponent of CBPR over the years as it strives to promote the health of all populations in the U.S. NCRR has stepped outside the rigid boundaries of traditional health research models to support investigations that lead to cures and treatments for both common and rare diseases. NCRR supports unique and essential research and resources that help to transform basic discoveries into improved human health. Programs within NCRR are listed at http://www.ncrr.nih.gov/about_us/programs.asp. The most important program for CANHR and it’s population is the NCRR's Research Centers in Minority Institutions (RCMI) program as it’s aim is to enhance the research capacity and infrastructure at minority colleges and universities that offer doctorates in health sciences. Because many investigators at RCMI institutions study diseases that disproportionately affect minorities, the program serves the dual purpose of bringing more minority scientists into mainstream research and enhances studies of minority health. NIH committed to erasing these health disparities in 1993 when it established the National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NCMHD). The mission of the NCMHD is to promote minority health and to lead, coordinate, support, and assess the NIH effort to reduce and ultimately eliminate health disparities. In this effort NCMHD will conduct and support basic, clinical, social, and behavioral research, promote research infrastructure and training, foster emerging programs, disseminate information, and reach out to minority and other health disparity communities. CANHR has had and continues to look forward to having projects funded by NCMHD. Other NIH sources of funding that CANHR faculty have accessed include: the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) , the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) , and the National Institute on alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA).

In addition to the COBRE grant which funded the start-up of CANHR, the University of Alaska Fairbanks is proud to hold another NCRR Research Infrastructure award known as an IDeA Networks of Biomedical Research Excellence (INBRE) grant. Like CANHR this program looks to attract and develop health researchers and infrastructure, but also works to network with other graduate and undergraduate institutions in the state to support the development of health faculty and students. The link above provides access to all INBRE programs across the US, the Alaska INBRE program website is at http://www.inbre.alaska.edu/.