Open AccessCrossing the Chasm of Mistrust: Collaborating With Immigrant Populations Through Community Organizations and Academic Partners
Author(s) -
Alex Pirie,
David M. Gute
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
american journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.284
H-Index - 264
eISSN - 1541-0048
pISSN - 0090-0036
DOI - 10.2105/ajph.2013.301517
Subject(s) - immigration , scale (ratio) , community based participatory research , public relations , community health , academic community , community organization , medicine , gerontology , sociology , psychology , political science , nursing , public health , geography , social science , participatory action research , law , anthropology , cartography
As a community partner and an academic researcher, we experienced the direct and extended benefits of a relatively small-scale, community-engaged informed consent process that developed in an immigrant occupational health study, Assessing and Controlling Occupational Health Risks for Immigrant Populations in Somerville, Massachusetts. The practice of human participants research played a positive role in the community, and both community partners and researchers, as well as the larger academic community, reaped unexpected benefits during the five-year project (2005-2010), which continue into the present. Lessons learned from our experience may be helpful for wider application.