Community-Partnered Approaches to Promoting Child and Adolescent Health Equity

Our regional data regarding infant mortality, asthma, and youth violence among others highlight that the opportunities to achieve health and thriving are not equitably distributed in our country with Black, Latinx and other communities of color experiencing a disproportionate burden of health inequities.  Using the example of The Pittsburgh Study, a longitudinal, community-partnered intervention study focused on child and youth thriving, this presentation will describe strategies for integrating community-partnered approaches into child and adolescent health research with the goal of achieving greater health equity.  Community leadership and development, developmentally and culturally responsive interventions that are co-created with community members, and data accessibility are among strategies that may help promote child health and thriving.

Learning Objectives:

1. Describe a strengths-based, community-partnered approach to defining child thriving

2. Elucidate two practices to promote 'research with' rather than 'on' communities

3. Identify three strategies for integrating community partners into research to promote health equity