How to Integrate Community-Based Participatory Research to Eliminate Health Disparities

Dr. Samuel Cykert, Professor of Medicine and Director of the Program on Health and Clinical Informatics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, distinguishes community/participatory involved research from a traditional research model. In this video, he explains that interventions initiated in the ACCURE study—a community/participatory study around health equity—were key to helping black patients with cancer to overcome obstacles to the optimal delivery of health services. He also details the important roles played by the Greensboro Health Disparities Collaborative and local black community organizer Netty Code in reducing health disparities in the Greensboro community and by extension, the United States.