Dear ICPHR-Participants
Mario Bach from the Robert Koch Institute (a national public health institute in Germany) would like to invite you to take part in a working group to be held on the 2017 ICPHR working meeting in Limerick. The group will focus on participatory research practices in health reporting and epidemiology.
 
Background
Epidemiology and health reporting are contributing in many ways to identifying various risk factors for disease and to promoting population health. However, there is a continuing debate about the ability of epidemiology not only to describe, but also to provide results which can be better translated into public health practice. It has been proposed that applying participatory research approaches to epidemiology as a way to bridge this gap between description and action. Within the context of PartKommPlus-Research Consortium for Healthy Communities the conceptual framework Participatory Epidemiology was developed to address this gap (see link below).
 
Aim of the working group
An introduction into the concept will be provided and selected examples of participatory epidemiological practice will be presented. In the working group methodological and practical issues like defining the population, reconsidering context, or synthesizing heterogeneous data can be discussed concerning your own experiences. The working group aims to share ideas and experiences in participatory data acquisition and usage for health reporting and epidemiology. The group will be chaired by Mario Bach.
 
Kind regards
Mario Bach, Susanne Jordan, Claudia Santos-Hövener
 
The conceptual framework is available at: http://ete-online.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12982-017-0056-4
 
If you have any questions please contact: partkommplus@rki.de
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Please visit the Kids In Action Project Summaries page to read about current Kids In Action projects from across the globe! If you would like to join this group, learn how you can register here.

Newsletter of the International Collaboration for Participatory Health Research (ICPHR)
 
Third Quarter, 2016
 
Information en français: Nita Chaudhuri, chaudhuri.nita@orange.fr
Informatión en español: Francisco Javier Mercado Martinez, francisco.mercado@cucs.udg.mx
Informação em Português: Irma Brito, irmabrito@esenfc.pt
Information auf Deutsch: Michael Wright, michael.wright@khsb-berlin.de
 
In this Issue:

1. Annual Working Meeting 2016 a Success
2. ICPHR Kids in Action Initiative
3. New Publication Documenting the History of the ICPHR
4. Save the Date! Annual Working Meeting 2017 in Ireland
5. Add us to Your Website
6. Getting Involved

 
1 Annual Working Meeting 2016 a Success
 
The Seventh Annual Working Meeting was held in Malmö (Sweden) from August 25th to August 27th.  A pre-conference took place in Göteborg on August 24th where work being conducted in Sweden was presented and international speakers addressed current issues in participatory health research.  The minutes of the Annual Working Meeting will be posted soon on the website.  Also, the list of projects will be updated.  A special thanks to the ICPHR members Margareta Rämgård from Malmö University and Maria Magnusson from the University of Gothenburg and Angered Hospital for organizing and hosting the both meetings!
 
2 ICPHR Kids in Action Initiative
 
Children are an often overlooked group when it comes to participatory research projects.  We have an exciting new opportunity for those who are interested in conducting Participatory Health Research (PHR) with children – the Kids in Action multi-country 3 year collaborative initiative.  The initiative, officially launched at the Annual Working Meeting in Malmö, is being coordinated by Prof. Lisa Gibbs, Director of the Jack Brockhoff Child Health and Wellbeing Program and Unit Head of the Evidence and Child Health Unit in the Centre for Health Equity, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health at the University of Melbourne (Australia).  You can find out more about Kids in Action by going to the new page on our website where there is also information about registering. 
 
3 *New* Publication Documenting the History of the ICPHR
 
ICPHR member Dr. Wendy Madsen from the School of Human, Health and Social Services at the Central Queensland University (Australia), has published the article “‘There and back again’: International Collaboration for Participatory Health Researchers’ journeys to evidence based practice and practice based evidence,” documenting the historical development of the ICPHR.  The article can be found in the International Journal of Action Research, Volume 12, Issue 3 (2016), pp. 294-314. 
 4 Save the Date! Annual Working Meeting 2017 in Ireland
 
The Annual Working Meeting 2017 will not take place in Galway (Ireland) as previously announced, but rather in Limerick, from 25-27 May 2017.  A pre-conference will take place earlier that week in Galway to which all ICPHR will be invited.  We will keep you posted through the newsletter and on our website as the details become available.
 
5 Add us to Your Website
 
Adding a link to the ICPHR website is an important way you can contribute to spreading the word about our work!
 
6 Getting Involved

The best way to get involved in the work of the ICPHR is through the Project Groups and Focus Areas.  Contact the coordinators of the projects which meet your interests.  Members are also welcome to set up new projects.  This can be done by submitting an idea to the Central Office.  Or maybe you represent an organization and are looking to cooperate with the ICPHR.  Just send an email to the Central Office with a description of your work and we will contact you.  Our list of current projects can be found here. The Focus Areas are described here.

We are delighted to announce that registration for the Kids in Action Initiative is now open!
If you are involved in conducting some form of health research, with children under 14 years involved as decision makers and co-researchers, we would love to have you in our Kids in Action international network.

Just go to http://www.icphr.org/kids-in-action.html to submit your application for free registration.
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The Kids in Action network is being established to increase the profile of participatory research with children, to offer local projects increased credibility in their efforts to fund and resource their projects, to provide a platform for shared learning and development of these methods, and a means for generating resources to share with others to support the use of participatory health research with children. There may also be interest among the Kids in Action members to contribute child input into debate about global issues.
 
If you would like further information please contact:
 
Associate Professor Lisa Gibbs
Director, Jack Brockhoff Child Health & Wellbeing Program
University of Melbourne
lgibbs@unimelb.edu.au

We have an exciting new opportunity for those who are interested in conducting Participatory Health Research (PHR) with children - the 'Kids in Action' multi-country 3 year collaborative initiative.  Kids in Action is a new focus area of the ICPHR that will be launched at our 2016 Annual Working Meeting in Sweden. For more information, please visit our project page.

The meeting minutes from the 2015 Annual Working Meeting in Berlin Germany are now posted. The minutes highlight new projects that the ICPHR is undertaking as well as emergent issues.

We are excited to announce 4 new projects the ICPHR is undertaking:

• PHR with Children
• ICPHR Empowerment Group
• Special Journal Editions
• Health, Equity, Poverty and Participatory Research with Seniors

Our detailed Project Overview can be found under the 'Getting Involved' tab. To get involved with any of these projects, please contact the project lead.

Newsletter of the International Collaboration for Participatory Health Research (ICPHR)
First Quarter, 2016
 
Information en français: Nita Chaudhuri, chaudhuri.nita@orange.fr
Informatión en español: Francisco Javier Mercado Martinez, francisco.mercado@cucs.udg.mx
Informação em Português: Irma Brito, irmabrito@esenfc.pt
Information auf Deutsch: Michael Wright, michael.wright@khsb-berlin.de
 
In this Issue:

1. Last Call! Annual Working Meeting 2016
2. ICPHR Kids in Action Initiative
3. Ethics in Participatory Health Research: Request for Case Examples and Case Studies
4. Add us to Your Website
5. Getting Involved

 
1 Last Call! Annual Working Meeting 2016
 As previously announced, the next Annual Working Meeting of the ICPHR will take place in Malmö, Sweden from 9am, Thursday, 25 August to 2pm, Saturday, 27 August 2016.  Registration ends on May 2nd! The meeting is a place where we can work on joint projects and learn more about what we are doing in our home countries.  All registrants will receive a detailed program and a list of recommended hotels, both of which are also posted on the website.  A pre-conference will be taking place in Göteborg on 24 August where work being conducted in Sweden will be presented and international speakers will address current issues in participatory health research.  Please go to the site for more information.
 
2 ICPHR Kids in Action Initiative
 
Children are an often overlooked group when it comes to participatory research projects.  We have an exciting new opportunity for those who are interested in conducting Participatory Health Research (PHR) research with children – the Kids in Action multi-country 3 year collaborative initiative.  The initiative, which will be launched at the Annual Working Meeting in Malmö, is being coordinated by Prof. Lisa Gibbs, Director of the Jack Brockhoff Child Health and Wellbeing Program and Unit Head of the Evidence and Child Health Unit in the Centre for Health Equity, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health at the University of Melbourne (Australia). Information will be coming soon on our website.
 
3 Ethics in Participatory Health Research: Request for Case Examples and Case Studies
 
We continue to collect case examples for a broader discussion on ethics in Participatory Health Research.  These examples will illustrate the issues raised in our position paper on ethics, available on the website.  For more information about the case examples and case studies, click here.  Feel free to submit your case studies in languages other than English.  We will work with our language coordinators to find ways to incorporate these studies into the sites which are currently being developed in other languages.  We look forward to hearing from you!
 
4 Add us to Your Website
 
Adding a link to the ICPHR website is an important way you can contribute to spreading the word about our work!
 
5 Getting Involved
 
The best way to get involved in the work of the ICPHR is through the Project Groups and Focus Areas.  Contact the coordinators of the projects which meet your interests.  Members are also welcome to set up new projects.  This can be done by submitting an idea to the Central Office.  Or maybe you represent an organization and are looking to cooperate with the ICPHR.  Just send an email to the Central Office with a description of your work and we will contact you.  Our list of current projects can be found here: http://www.icphr.org/projects.html   The Focus Areas are described here.

A summary of the 2014 Annual Working Meeting is now posted on the Niteroi conference page. We have also posted an updated project list to include new members projects identified at the AWM 2014.  If you are interested in joining any of the projects, please email the member lead directly. 

The Promise of Community-Based Participatory Research for Health Equity: A Conceptual Model for Bridging Evidence With Policy
Lisa Cacari-Stone, PhD, MA, MS, Nina Wallerstein, DrPH, Analilia P. Garcia, DrPH, MPH, and Meredith Minkler, DrPH

Abstract:
Insufficient attention has been paid to how research can be leveraged to promote health policy or how locality-based research strategies, in particular community-based participatory research (CBPR), influences health policy to eliminate racial and ethnic health inequities. To address this gap, we highlighted the efforts of 2 CBPR partnerships in California to explore how these initiatives made substantial contributions to policymaking for health equity. We presented a new conceptual model and 2 case studies to illustrate the connections among CBPR contexts and processes, policymaking processes and strategies, and outcomes. We extended the critical role of civic engagement by those communities that were most burdened by health inequities by focusing on their political participation as research brokers in bridging evidence and policymaking. (Am J Public Health. Published online ahead of print July 17, 2014: e1–e9. doi:10.2105/AJPH.2014.301961)

Citation: Cacari-Stone, L., Wallerstein, N., Garcia, A. P., & Minkler, M. (2014). The Promise of Community-Based Participatory Research for Health Equity: A Conceptual Model for Bridging Evidence With Policy. American journal of public health, (0), e1-e9.
Copyright holder: American Public Health Association (APHA)
Read More: http://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/abs/10.2105/AJPH.2014.301961