Chris M Coombe
Biographic Data
| ID | 4100077 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Chris M Coombe |
| GIVEN NAMES | Chris M |
| FAMILY NAME | Coombe |
| SIGNATURE | COOMBE C M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, MI, USA |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3697-2456 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 77 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Forging partnerships for health equity research
Background: Community-based participatory research (CBPR) is essential for translating and increasing the overall uptake of evidence-based interventions in community settings. Yet a limited number of academic and medical institutions provide structured and formal training on how to conduct high-quality CBPR or develop academic-community partnerships. Methods: = 10) between May 2023 and May 2024. A mixed methods evaluation via a survey with closed…
A Collaborative Approach to Enhance Capacity and Power for Community-driven Policy Change
Background: A longstanding community-based participa-tory research center designed Project Health Equity via Advocacy for Resources in Detroit (HEARD) to enhance the capacity, collective power, and impact of community-based organizations—working in partnership with academics—to advance policy change for health equity in their communities. Objectives: We describe how Project HEARD supported community–academic teams to develop policy advocacy campa…
Validation of the Measurement Approaches to Partnership Success (Maps) Questionnaire
Conceptualizing and testing factors that contribute to the success of community–academic partnerships are critical to understanding their contributions to the health and well-being of communities. Most measures to date focus on factors that contribute to the development of new partnerships, and only a few have been adequately tested and validated. Methods. The Measurement Approaches to Partnership Success (MAPS) study followed a community-based p…
A CBPR-Enhanced Delphi Method
As part of a 5-year study to develop and validate an instrument for measuring success in long-standing community-based participatory research (CBPR) partnerships, we utilized the Delphi method with a panel of 16 community and academic CBPR experts to assess face and content validity of the instrument’s broad concepts of success and measurement items. In addition to incorporating quantitative and qualitative feedback from two online surveys, we in…
Cultivating an Ecosystem
Background: While sustainability is crucial to the success of community-based participatory research (CBPR) partnerships, there is a lack of conceptual clarity on what defines sustainability and what characterizes sustainability-promoting practices in long-standing (in existence 6 years or longer) CBPR partnerships. Objectives: The aim of this article is to explore the definition of sustainability, as well as practices that influence sustainabili…
Measurement Approaches to Partnership Success
Through the application of a theoretical model and multiple methodological approaches, the MAPS study will result in a validated measurement instrument and will develop procedures for effectively feeding back evaluation findings in order to strengthen authentic partnerships to achieve health equity
A Participatory, Mixed Methods Approach to Define and Measure Partnership Synergy in Long‐standing Equity‐focused CBPR Partnerships
Understanding what contributes to success of community-based participatory research (CBPR) partnerships is essential to ensuring their effectiveness in addressing health disparities and health inequities. Synergy, the concept of accomplishing more together than separately, is central to partnership effectiveness. However, synergy specific to long-standing, equity-focused CBPR partnerships has not been closely examined. To address this, we defined…
Shifting from “Community-Placed” to “Community-Based” Research to Advance Health Equity
Extreme summertime heat is a significant public health threat that disproportionately impacts vulnerable urban populations. Research on health impacts of climate change (including increasing intensity, duration, and frequency of hot weather) is sometimes designed and implemented without the involvement of the communities being studied, i.e., "community-placed" not "community-based." We describe how the Heatwaves, Housing, and Health: Increasing C…
The State as Community in Community-Based Participatory Research
A geographically and culturally diverse partnership presents challenges and opportunities in representativeness, relationship building, capacity building, and communication
Building Community Capacity to Advocate for Policy Change
This article presents results of the outcome evaluation of Neighborhoods Working in Partnership (NWP), a community-based participatory research project of the Detroit Community–Academic Urban Research Center, designed to enhance policy advocacy skills through training and support, thereby increasing community capacity, engagement, and empowerment of Detroit residents to change policies. Focus groups and conversational interviews were conducted wi…
Community-Based Participatory Research
There have been increasing calls for community–academic partnerships to enhance the capacity of partners to engage in policy advocacy aimed at eliminating health disparities. Community-based participatory research (CBPR) is a partnership approach that can facilitate capacity building and policy change through equitable engagement of diverse partners. Toward this end, the Detroit Community–Academic Urban Research Center, a long-standing CBPR partn…
Community-Based Participatory Research
There have been increasing calls for community–academic partnerships to enhance the capacity of partners to engage in policy advocacy aimed at eliminating health disparities. Community-based participatory research (CBPR) is a partnership approach that can facilitate capacity building and policy change through equitable engagement of diverse partners. Toward this end, the Detroit Community–Academic Urban Research Center, a long-standing CBPR partn…
Measurement Approaches to Partnership Success
Through the application of a theoretical model and multiple methodological approaches, the MAPS study will result in a validated measurement instrument and will develop procedures for effectively feeding back evaluation findings in order to strengthen authentic partnerships to achieve health equity
Building Community Capacity to Advocate for Policy Change
This article presents results of the outcome evaluation of Neighborhoods Working in Partnership (NWP), a community-based participatory research project of the Detroit Community–Academic Urban Research Center, designed to enhance policy advocacy skills through training and support, thereby increasing community capacity, engagement, and empowerment of Detroit residents to change policies. Focus groups and conversational interviews were conducted wi…
Cultivating an Ecosystem
Background: While sustainability is crucial to the success of community-based participatory research (CBPR) partnerships, there is a lack of conceptual clarity on what defines sustainability and what characterizes sustainability-promoting practices in long-standing (in existence 6 years or longer) CBPR partnerships. Objectives: The aim of this article is to explore the definition of sustainability, as well as practices that influence sustainabili…
A Participatory, Mixed Methods Approach to Define and Measure Partnership Synergy in Long‐standing Equity‐focused CBPR Partnerships
Understanding what contributes to success of community-based participatory research (CBPR) partnerships is essential to ensuring their effectiveness in addressing health disparities and health inequities. Synergy, the concept of accomplishing more together than separately, is central to partnership effectiveness. However, synergy specific to long-standing, equity-focused CBPR partnerships has not been closely examined. To address this, we defined…
The State as Community in Community-Based Participatory Research
A geographically and culturally diverse partnership presents challenges and opportunities in representativeness, relationship building, capacity building, and communication
Community-Based Participatory Research
There have been increasing calls for community–academic partnerships to enhance the capacity of partners to engage in policy advocacy aimed at eliminating health disparities. Community-based participatory research (CBPR) is a partnership approach that can facilitate capacity building and policy change through equitable engagement of diverse partners. Toward this end, the Detroit Community–Academic Urban Research Center, a long-standing CBPR partn…
Building Community Capacity to Advocate for Policy Change
This article presents results of the outcome evaluation of Neighborhoods Working in Partnership (NWP), a community-based participatory research project of the Detroit Community–Academic Urban Research Center, designed to enhance policy advocacy skills through training and support, thereby increasing community capacity, engagement, and empowerment of Detroit residents to change policies. Focus groups and conversational interviews were conducted wi…
The State as Community in Community-Based Participatory Research
A geographically and culturally diverse partnership presents challenges and opportunities in representativeness, relationship building, capacity building, and communication
Shifting from “Community-Placed” to “Community-Based” Research to Advance Health Equity
Extreme summertime heat is a significant public health threat that disproportionately impacts vulnerable urban populations. Research on health impacts of climate change (including increasing intensity, duration, and frequency of hot weather) is sometimes designed and implemented without the involvement of the communities being studied, i.e., "community-placed" not "community-based." We describe how the Heatwaves, Housing, and Health: Increasing C…
Measurement Approaches to Partnership Success
Through the application of a theoretical model and multiple methodological approaches, the MAPS study will result in a validated measurement instrument and will develop procedures for effectively feeding back evaluation findings in order to strengthen authentic partnerships to achieve health equity
A Participatory, Mixed Methods Approach to Define and Measure Partnership Synergy in Long‐standing Equity‐focused CBPR Partnerships
Understanding what contributes to success of community-based participatory research (CBPR) partnerships is essential to ensuring their effectiveness in addressing health disparities and health inequities. Synergy, the concept of accomplishing more together than separately, is central to partnership effectiveness. However, synergy specific to long-standing, equity-focused CBPR partnerships has not been closely examined. To address this, we defined…
Cultivating an Ecosystem
Background: While sustainability is crucial to the success of community-based participatory research (CBPR) partnerships, there is a lack of conceptual clarity on what defines sustainability and what characterizes sustainability-promoting practices in long-standing (in existence 6 years or longer) CBPR partnerships. Objectives: The aim of this article is to explore the definition of sustainability, as well as practices that influence sustainabili…
Validation of the Measurement Approaches to Partnership Success (Maps) Questionnaire
Conceptualizing and testing factors that contribute to the success of community–academic partnerships are critical to understanding their contributions to the health and well-being of communities. Most measures to date focus on factors that contribute to the development of new partnerships, and only a few have been adequately tested and validated. Methods. The Measurement Approaches to Partnership Success (MAPS) study followed a community-based p…
A CBPR-Enhanced Delphi Method
As part of a 5-year study to develop and validate an instrument for measuring success in long-standing community-based participatory research (CBPR) partnerships, we utilized the Delphi method with a panel of 16 community and academic CBPR experts to assess face and content validity of the instrument’s broad concepts of success and measurement items. In addition to incorporating quantitative and qualitative feedback from two online surveys, we in…
Forging partnerships for health equity research
Background: Community-based participatory research (CBPR) is essential for translating and increasing the overall uptake of evidence-based interventions in community settings. Yet a limited number of academic and medical institutions provide structured and formal training on how to conduct high-quality CBPR or develop academic-community partnerships. Methods: = 10) between May 2023 and May 2024. A mixed methods evaluation via a survey with closed…
A Collaborative Approach to Enhance Capacity and Power for Community-driven Policy Change
Background: A longstanding community-based participa-tory research center designed Project Health Equity via Advocacy for Resources in Detroit (HEARD) to enhance the capacity, collective power, and impact of community-based organizations—working in partnership with academics—to advance policy change for health equity in their communities. Objectives: We describe how Project HEARD supported community–academic teams to develop policy advocacy campa…
Political science (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Community-based participatory research (9 works) · Health Policy Implementation Science (9 works) · Participatory action research (9 works) · Community Health and Development (8 works) · General partnership (8 works) · Medicine (7 works) · Mental Health and Patient Involvement (7 works) · Public relations (7 works)