Community Based Environmental Health Research: Finding Meaning

GBPSR is a community partner with Boston University School of Public Health on a multi year project that aims to understand the differing expectations among stakeholders in community health studies. We have been working with BU researchers to identify the stakeholders and conduct focus groups to better understand their knowledge, perception and beliefs of what health studies can and cannot do. Ultimately we plan to educate and train all the stakeholders in the needs and expectations of the others and come to a common understanding of what is involved in a community health study.