Abstract
Community engagement and community engagement in research are increasingly popular approaches to working with Indigenous communities, vulnerable communities, and communities of color to address health equity. The most popular approach to community engagement is community‐based participatory research (CBPR). CBPR is a collaborative and equitable process of involving all research partners in all phases of a research project, building off the strength of all the research partners. CBPR is guided by a set of principles including action orientation for community benefit, long‐term partnership focused on sustainable gains on health issues of importance to the community, and capacity building of all partners. Recent theoretical developments in CBPR have identified key mechanisms of why CBPR creates positive outcomes and includes trust, partnership synergy, and commitment to collective empowerment. These elements are integrated into the CBPR conceptual model, which identifies pathways from context to partnership dynamics/communication, intervention, and outcomes and provides promising practices for CBPR partnerships to enhance health and health equity. CBPR is being used with increasing frequency by health communication scholars, although there is room for greater use.
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