Amplifying the community voice in community-academic partnerships: A summary of and commentary on a thematic issue

摘要

This special issue of Progress in Community Health Partnerships (PCHP), "Maximizing Community Contributions, Benefits, and Outcomes in Clinical and Translational Research," seeks to advance the field of community-based health research by providing information, tools, and understanding of the accomplishments, best practices, and challenges that community and academic partners have experienced in their engagement with National Institutes of Health-funded Clinical and Translational Science Awardees (CTSAs) and other research entities.Much of the editorial work has been performed by guest editors: a collaboration of academics and community-based partners who strived to publish papers that amplify community perspectives in clinical and translational research, including those involving participatory approaches with a wide range of communities, participants, settings, and geographic locations.