Community - based Participatory Research Center
| Brief Overview |
| Community-based participatory research approach relying on a bottom up approach aims to fill the equity gap and achieve a fair distribution of resources and power among different stakeholders through providing solutions for encouraging participation and involvement of community and other stakeholders in public, private and non-governmental sectors, establishing a balance of power between the partners, empowering vulnerable groups to control over social determinants of health and establishing healthy public policies. |
| Message from Dean |
| Community based Participatory Research Center (CBPRC) was established in 2007 to provide the necessary requirements to do health research "with the community" not "on the community", and to make the research topics more and more compatible with the real needs of the society. Improvement of collective decision making of different stakeholders in the research process; developing indigenous methods and techniques of participatory research in order to increase the required capacity for identification, prioritization, designing and implementing multi-level interventions for health issues among the people, academicians and institutions; improving equity in health research, people's participation and inter-sector collaboration to tackle social detenninants of health are among the main goals of the CBPRC. The leadership role of CBPR center during more than one decade of operations in guiding methodology for encouraging participation of community and entities has led various sections influencing health, such as Housing and Urban Development, municipality, police, welfare, education, employment and poverty alleviation agencies throughout the country, to propose projects predicted for realizing equity and social development in their strategic plans to be piloted through this center in order to specify practical steps for implementation. Issues that have always been topics of interest and belief for the center are including: How health along with housing, employment and other determinants in different layers and levels is viewed by various stakeholders, whether it has been received any effective multidimensional intervention and if there a systemic evaluation is conducted. However, academics have always paid little attention to such issues due to field work difficulties and non-compliance of achievements with the current evaluation, promotion and tenure frameworks of universities. |
| Mission |
| Community-based Participatory Research Center is first of all committed to community empowerment, so that the residents are enabled and are given the capacity to detect and analyze their health problems and needs and to find feasible solutions for them. This initiative consists of participatory educational packages that teach certain personal skill and coping strategies to the participants. Second, CBPRC has intended to provide the appropriate enabling environment for capacity building, which requires commitment of stakeholders and extensive inter-sectoral collaboration. Both initiatives are intended to be done with vast participation of the people in the design, implementation and evaluation of the process. The results of both initiatives are intended to be generalized to the whole society. |
| Vision |
| The outlook of the Community based Participatory Research Center is to devise original methods for community health promotion with community participation towards human development, and to disseminate the results to people, headquarters of governmental and nongovernmental organizations, and academicians. |
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| Contact Us | |
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Address: Unit 9, 7th floor, Num.1547, Universitiy Research Institutes Building, North Karegar St, Tehran, Iran. Tel: (021) 88995879 Fax: (021) 88995880 Email:sdhprc@tums.ac.ir |
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