Advocating for a “Community to bench model” in the 21st century

Engaging rural communities in cancer prevention and control research: Development and preliminary insights from a community‐based research registry

“…Smoking was high in this sample (17% vs. 13.7% nationally), 31 suggesting the need for concentrated outreach and engagement for tobacco cessation and lung cancer screening in the cancer center catchment area. The success of such programs will be influenced by purposeful and specific community, local clinic, and cancer center relationships 32 and acknowledgment and understanding of relevant historical and contemporary factors related to tobacco production, marketing, sales, and use in Virginia. As such, continued use of community‐based approaches to program development, implementation, and evaluation are recommended.…”

The Bench to Community Initiative : A community-based participatory research model for translating research discoveries into community solutions

“…BCI is a CBPR project composed of behavioral and basic scientists, and a Community Advisory Board (CAB) of stakeholders including Black breast cancer survivors, stylists, and health educators. Models such as BCI structure sustainability by building and maintaining trust through constant collaboration with communities 1,8 . The collaborative offers stakeholders equal opportunities to contribute to public health practice, through quarterly meetings that deliver project updates, intervention and dissemination discussions, and training by student trainees.…”

“…Community-based participatory research (CBPR) has been shown to be an effective methodology for translating research findings into community solutions. CBPR is known by many names including participatory action research, community-based research, and community-to-bench model 1,2 . Despite the variations in terminology, the principles of CBPR require collaboration or partnership between the community and the academy across the research continuum.…”

Use of Adolescent “Community Researchers” to Address Obesity Among Mexican Immigrant Families

“…In the traditional model of development and dissemination of research findings, scientific knowledge moves from “bench to bedside to community,” often taking years to reach the lay public. Community researcher projects foster the co-creation of scientific knowledge, moving instead from a “community to bench” model (Tossas et al, 2020), which brings valuable information directly from the community to health care researchers.…”

“…Community researcher projects often represent the collaboration of scientists working with the general public. This community-based approach may lead to networking opportunities, increased understanding of selected topics (e.g., obesity), and faster dissemination of responses to health issues via the “community -to-bench” continuum (Tossas et al, 2020).…”