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Title: Academic partnerships and key leaders emerging from communities in the lower mississippi delta (LMD): a community-based participatory research model

Author
item KENNEDY, BETTY - Pennington Biomedical Research Center
item PREWITT, THERESA - University Arkansas For Medical Sciences (UAMS)
item STRICKLAND, EARLINE - Consultant
item YADRICK, KATHY - University Of Southern Mississippi
item THREADGILL, PAULA - Mississippi State University
item CHAMPAGNE, CATHERINE - Pennington Biomedical Research Center
item MCGEE, BERNESTINE - Southern University And A & M College
item McCabe Sellers, Beverly
item Bogle, Margaret

Submitted to: Journal of Cultural Diversity
Publication Type: Peer Reviewed Journal
Publication Acceptance Date: 7/21/2009
Publication Date: 8/1/2011
Citation: Kennedy, B.M., Prewitt, T.E., Strickland, E., Yadrick, K., Threadgill, P., Champagne, C., McGee, B.B., McCabe Sellers, B.J., Bogle, M.L. 2011. Academic partnerships and key leaders emerging from communities in the lower Mississippi Delta (LMD): a Community-based participatory research model. Journal of Cultural Diversity. 18(3):9-94.

Interpretive Summary: The nutritional health problems of the Lower Mississippi Delta (LMD) region were examined and opportunities identified for conducting research interventions. Community residents, academic researchers, and other organizational entities collaboratively worked together to improve the overall quality of diet and health in their respective communities using the community-based participatory research (CBPR) model. This paper examined some of the research interventions conducted in Franklin, Louisiana; Hollandale, Mississippi; and Marvell, Arkansas, and how leadership emerged from these communities.

Technical Abstract: Collaboratively, the nutritional health problems of the Lower Mississippi Delta (LMD) region were examined and opportunities identified for conducting research interventions. To combat the nutritional health problems in the LMD, community residents yielded to a more comprehensive and participatory approach known as community-based participatory research (CBPR). Community residents partnered with academic researchers and other organizational entities to improve the overall quality of diet and health in their respective communities using CBPR. The collaborative work in the LMD focused on interventions conducted in each of three specific communities across three states: Marvell, Arkansas (Marvell NIRI), and its surrounding public school district; Franklin Parish in Louisiana (Franklin NIRI); and the city of Hollandale, Mississippi (Hollandale NIRI). This paper examined some of the research interventions conducted in Franklin, Hollandale, and Marvell NIRI respectively, how leadership emerged from each of these communities, and lessons learned as a result of the CBPR model.