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Reflective Essays

Vol. 15 No. 2

Maximizing the Impact of Community-Based Research

Submitted
June 7, 2011
Published
2011-06-07

Abstract

Community-based research (CBR) is an increasingly familiar approach to addressing social challenges. Nonetheless, the role it plays in attaining community impact is unclear and largely unstudied. Here the authors discuss an emerging framework aimed toward fostering community impact through university and community civic engagement. They describe how, through application of this framework to initiatives intended to reduce obesity, CBR might be focused for greater effect.