Handbook of Community-Based Participatory Research by Steven S. Coughlin

Rather than a single quantitative or qualitative method, community-based participatory research (CBPR) is a diverse set of research approaches united by their common aim of social justice. Handbook of Community-Based Participatory Research codifies these methodologies and articulates an expansive vision of health that includes gender equality, safe and adequate housing, and freedom from violence. Topic-based chapters apply the theory and methods of CBPR to real world problems affecting women, ethnic and racial minorities, and immigrant communities such as sexual violence, exposure to environmental toxins, and lack of access to preventive care as well as suggesting future directions for effective, culturally sensitive research. Handbook of Community-Based Participatory Resarch is required reading for academics, policy makers, and students seeking meaningful social change through scholarship.

Steven S. Coughlin, Ph.D, is Associate Professor at Augusta University and Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology at Emory University. Until recently, he was a Visiting Professor in the College of Health Sciences at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell. Until 2014, he was Professor of Preventive Medicine at the University of Tennessee College of Medicine in Memphis and Director of the Research Core for the Research Center on Health Disparities, Equity, and the Exposome. Previously, he was a senior epidemiologist in the Division of Cancer Prevention and Control at CDC in Atlanta. Maria E. Fernandez, Ph.D, is Professor of Health Promotion and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Texas, School of Public Health (SPH) and Director of the Center for Health Promotion and Prevention Research (CHPPR). Selina A. Smith, Ph.D, MDiv, is the Director of the Augusta University (AU) Institute of Public and Preventive Health (IPPH). The IPPH is AU's first public health institute (established in 2012). Dr. Smith holds appointments as Professor and Curtis G. Hames, MD Distinguished Chair, Department of Family Medicine, Medical College of Georgia (MCG) and Member, Population Sciences, Cancer Center.