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Rural Community Engagement for Health Disparities Research: The Unique Role of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs).

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Taylor, Lorraine C
Watkins, Charity S
Chesterton, Hannah
Kimbro, K Sean
Gerald, Ruby
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Reducing health disparities in rural communities of color remains a national concern. Efforts to reduce health disparities often center on community engagement, which is historically the strategy used to provide rural minority populations with support to access and utilize health information and services. Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), with their origins derived from social injustices and discrimination, are uniquely positioned to conduct this type of engagement. We present the "Research with Care" project, a long-standing positive working relationship between North Carolina Central University (NCCU) and rural Halifax County, North Carolina, demonstrating an effective campus-community partnership. The importance of readiness to implement Community-based Participatory Research (CBPR) principles is underscored. As demonstrated by the NCCU-Halifax partnership, we recommend leveraging the positive associations of the HBCU brand identity as a method of building and sustaining meaningful relationships with rural Black communities. This underscores the role and value of HBCUs in the health disparities research arena and should be communicated and embraced.
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Humans
Universities
African Americans
Rural Population
Health Promotion
Delivery of Health Care
North Carolina
Health Status Disparities
Healthcare Disparities
Community-Based Participatory Research
Pandemics
Social Determinants of Health
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https://hdl.handle.net/10161/26417
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10.3390/ijerph18010064
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Taylor, Lorraine C; Watkins, Charity S; Chesterton, Hannah; Kimbro, K Sean; & Gerald, Ruby (2020). Rural Community Engagement for Health Disparities Research: The Unique Role of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). International journal of environmental research and public health, 18(1). pp. E64. 10.3390/ijerph18010064. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/26417.
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Charity S Watkins

Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Dr. Watkins is a tenure-track professor and provisionally licensed outpatient therapist. She earned her BA in Sociology, Masters in Social Work (MSW), and PhD in Social Work from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. Watkins joined North Carolina Central University faculty in 2018 while serving as a school social worker and completing her dissertation focused on promotive parenting factors for academic resilience among socioeconomically marginalized Black children.
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