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Developing and Sustaining Community-Academic Partnerships: Lessons From Downstate New York Healthy Start

Cheryl Merzel, DrPH1*, Gail Burrus, BS2, Jean Davis, BBA3, Ngozi Moses, MSc4, Sharon Rumley, RN, MPH5, Dionna Walters, MPH, MPA6

1 an assistant professor in the Department of Sociomedical Sciences, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health in New York City, New York, and the principal investigator and project director for Downstate New York Healthy Start.
2 the executive director of the Suffolk County Perinatal Coalition in Patchogue, New York.
3 the deputy director of the Economic Opportunity Commission of Nassau County in Hempstead, New York.
4 the founding executive director of the Brooklyn Perinatal Network in Brooklyn, New York.
5 the founding executive director of the Queens Comprehensive Perinatal Council in Jamaica, New York.
6 the program coordinator for the Downstate New York Healthy Start Project at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health in New York City, New York.

* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: cm449{at}columbia.edu.


  Abstract

Partnering with communities is a critical aspect of contemporary health promotion. Linkages between universities and communities are particularly significant, given the prominence of academic institutions in channeling grants. This article describes the collaboration between a school of public health and several community-based organizations on a maternal and infant health grant project. The partnership serves as a model for ways in which a university and community organizations can interrelate and interact. Central lessons include the significance of sharing values and goals, the benefit of drawing on the different strengths of each partner, the gap created by the university’s institutional focus on research rather than service and advocacy, and the strains created by power inequities and distribution of funds. A key element of the partnership’s success is the emphasis on capacity building and colearning. The project demonstrates the potential of employing community-academic partnerships as a valuable mechanism for implementing community-based health promotion programs.

Key Words: community collaboration, community-academic partnership, community-capacity development

First published on June 27, 2006, doi:10.1177/1524839906289557

Health Promotion Practice 2007;8:375.

A more recent version of this article appeared on October 1, 2007

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