A Collaborative Approach to Address Racism in a Community–Academic Partnership

Lebow-Skelley, Erin; Tomlinson, Martha Scott; Charles, Simone M.; Fuller, Christina H.; Ames, Barry; Pearson, Melanie

doi:10.5888/pcd20.220365

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“…Academic organizations also promote and support research that has promulgated well-earned distrust of medical research ( 42 , 43 ). Lebow-Skelley et al ( 44 ) acknowledge research centers as entities that affect faculty, students, and surrounding communities and have the potential to dismantle historically systemically racist research practices. They describe efforts at Emory University’s Rollins School of Public Health through the HERCULES environmental research program to 1) acknowledge and confront the university’s history of slavery and dispossession and 2) recognize and act on the need to address systemic and institutional racism in research practices.…”

Section: Implementation Of Multicomponent Antiracist Initiatives In U...mentioning

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Section: Implementation Of Multicomponent Antiracist Initiatives In U...mentioning

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Combating Racism Through Research, Training, Practice, and Public Health Policies

Hall

Boulware

2023

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Combating Racism Through Research, Training, Practice, and Public Health Policies

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Boulware

2023

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“…However, the greatest environmental injustices in the United States often occurs in lower income Black and Hispanic populations [42,43]. Community-academic partnerships can help address these injustices by empowering community partners [44,45]. Importantly, the ECS was co-developed with our community partner, Seven Hills Neighborhood Houses, which serves a historically Black West End neighborhood in an under-resourced area of Cincinnati.…”

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The Eyewitness Community Survey: An Engaging Citizen Science Tool to Capture Reliable Data while Improving Community Participants’ Environmental Health Knowledge and Attitudes

Butsch Kovacic,

Elshaer,

Baker

et al. 2023

IJERPH

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Many youths and young adults have variable environmental health knowledge, limited understanding of their local environment’s impact on their health, and poor environmentally friendly behaviors. We sought to develop and test a tool to reliably capture data, increase environmental health knowledge, and engage youths as citizen scientists to examine and take action on their community’s challenges. The Eyewitness Community Survey (ECS) was developed through several iterations of co-design. Herein, we tested its performance. In Phase I, seven youths audited five 360° photographs. In Phase II, 27 participants works as pairs/trios and audited five locations, typically 7 days apart. Inter-rater and intra-rater reliability were determined. Changes in participants’ knowledge, attitudes, behaviors, and self-efficacy were surveyed. Feedback was obtained via focus groups. Intra-rater reliability was in the substantial/near-perfect range, with Phase II having greater consistency. Inter-rater reliability was high, with 42% and 63% of Phase I and II Kappa, respectively, in the substantial/near-perfect range. Knowledge scores improved after making observations (p ≤ 0.032). Participants (85%) reported the tool to be easy/very easy to use, with 70% willing to use it again. Thus, the ECS is a mutually beneficial citizen science tool that rigorously captures environmental data and provides engaging experiential learning opportunities.

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Engaging Guest Speakers and Recognizing Their Valuable Contributions to Public Health Classrooms: Process Evaluation of a Pilot Program to Provide Thank You Gift Cards to Guest Speakers

Walker,

McGee

2024

Pedagogy in Health Promotion

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Guest speakers introduce students to diverse perspectives, share relevant experiences that reinforce course content, and demonstrate how skills and knowledge that students are learning can be applied in public health practice. Providing a monetary thank you gift is one way to recognize the valuable contributions of community-based guest speakers to students’ learning. We describe the implementation and evaluation of a departmental pilot program to offer gift cards to guest speakers. During the 2022 to 2023 academic year, instructors could request a $100 gift card for one guest speaker outside of the university community per course per semester. We evaluated the program to assess the process for distributing gift cards, instructors’ reasons for inviting guest speakers, and students’ perceptions of guest speakers’ contributions to their learning. Data were collected through tracking spreadsheets, an online survey to instructors, and anonymous student course evaluations. Thirty gift cards ($2525 covered by the department) were distributed. Evaluation findings indicate that the program is a feasible way to engage diverse perspectives in the classroom and share applied examples and professional development with students. Specific recommendations that we implemented in the continuation of this program include allowing flexibility in the number and denomination of gift cards, streamlining the process for requesting and distributing gift cards, and providing communications to facilitate consistent and clear information sharing. The Guest Speaker Thank You Gift Program complements and extends the diversity, equity, and inclusion work of the department by supporting the expansion of perspectives shared in classroom and directly acknowledging guest speakers’ contributions.

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A Collaborative Approach to Address Racism in a Community–Academic Partnership

Cited by 3 publications

References 29 publications

Combating Racism Through Research, Training, Practice, and Public Health Policies

Combating Racism Through Research, Training, Practice, and Public Health Policies

The Eyewitness Community Survey: An Engaging Citizen Science Tool to Capture Reliable Data while Improving Community Participants’ Environmental Health Knowledge and Attitudes

Engaging Guest Speakers and Recognizing Their Valuable Contributions to Public Health Classrooms: Process Evaluation of a Pilot Program to Provide Thank You Gift Cards to Guest Speakers

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