Innovations in HIV Prevention Research and Practice through Community Engagement

1. Front Matter

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2. Authentic Community Engagement and Community-Based Participatory Research for Public Health and Medicine

   • Scott D. Rhodes

   Pages 1-10

3. HIV Prevention in a Rural Community: Project GRACE—A Multigenerational Approach to Community Engagement

   • Arlinda Ellison, Aletha Akers, Adina Black, Tashuna Albritton, Stepheria Hodge-Sallah, Mysha Wynn et al.

   Pages 11-33

4. Preventing HIV among Black Men in College Using a CBPR Approach

   • Louis F. Graham, Robert E. Aronson, Regina McCoy Pulliam, Lilli Mann, Scott D. Rhodes

   Pages 35-54

5. Gay Community Involvement in HIV and STD Prevention: Where We Have Been, Where We Are, and Where We Should be Going

   • Fred R. Bloom, David K. Whittier, Scott D. Rhodes

   Pages 55-75

6. HIV Prevention Interventions with Adolescents: Innovations and Challenges in Partnerships across the Integrated Transitions Model

   • Amanda E. Tanner, Morgan M. Philbin, Alice Ma

   Pages 77-104

7. Community Engagement and HIV Prevention with American Indian/Alaska Native Communities: Working with the Whole Person

   • Flavio F. Marsiglia, John Gallagher, Deborah Secakuku Baker, Jaime M. Booth

   Pages 105-134

8. CBPR to Prevent HIV within Racial/Ethnic, Sexual, and Gender Minority Communities: Successes with Long-Term Sustainability

   • Scott D. Rhodes, Lilli Mann, Jorge Alonzo, Mario Downs, Claire Abraham, Cindy Miller et al.

   Pages 135-160

9. Community Involvement in HIV-related Policy Initiatives: History, Experiences, and Next Steps

   • Jason Daniel-Ulloa, Briana Woods-Jaeger, Melvin Jackson, Dominica Rehbein, Alexandra Lightfoot, Linda Riggins et al.

   Pages 161-182

10. Communities and Technology: Enhancements in HIV-Prevention Research and Practice Among Adolescents and Young Adults

    • Sheana Bull, Tarik Walker, Deb Levine

    Pages 183-214

11. Employment as a Social Determinant of Health: An Urban Partnership’s Experience with HIV Intervention Development and Implementation Using Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR)

    • Kenneth C. Hergenrather, Steve Geishecker, Glenn Clark, Scott D. Rhodes

    Pages 215-237

12. Dissemination, Implementation, and Adaptation of Evidence-based Behavioral HIV-Prevention Interventions Through Community Engagement: The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Experience

    • Charles B. Collins Jr, Hank L. Tomlinson

    Pages 239-261

13. Back Matter

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HIV continues to be a profound challenge facing communities nationally and internationally. Until a vaccine or a cure is found, prevention remains a most crucial line of defense. However, the successes made to reduce exposure and transmission have not benefited all communities equally. HIV continues to affect vulnerable communities, and HIV-related health disparities are growing.

The work documented in Innovations in HIV Prevention Research and Practice through Community Engagement spotlights the effectiveness of community involvement to reduce HIV infections in the United States. This timely resource introduces the concepts of community engagement, partnership, and community-based participatory research (CBPR). Contributors provide detailed examples of these concepts in which diverse research partners blend their unique insights and skills to arrive at an authentic understanding of phenomena and inform the translation of best practices and processes to enhance equity in HIV prevention and treatment. Equitable interactive collaboration is central to these efforts, in which community members and representatives from organizations, the scientific and medical sectors, and other relevant agencies nurture long-term health improvement through sustained teamwork. Challenges and barriers to effective engagement are identified, as are characteristics of successful partnerships. Included in the book:

• Details of a multigenerational HIV prevention intervention in a rural southeastern community.
• The challenges and successes of developing, implementing, and evaluating an intervention for higher-risk predominately heterosexual black men in college.
• The history of gay community involvement in HIV prevention and its contributions to the theory and current practice of engagement.
• Next steps in the integration of HIV-related policy change and research.
• Community engagement within American Indian communities.
• Keys to sustaining a CBPR partnership to prevent HIV within ethnic, sexual, and gender minority communities.

Innovations in HIV Prevention Research and Practice through Community Engagement offers researchers and practitioners in public health, community health, and medicine guidance on community engagement that is both inspiring and realistic.

“Community engagement and knowledge continue to be essential to prevent HIV infections. This book is a compilation of the state-of-the-science of engagement and delves deeper into the meaning and utilization of community-based participatory research, with implications that reach beyond the HIV epidemic to public health and medicine in general.”

- Laura C. Leviton, PhD, Senior Advisor for Evaluation, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Princeton, NJ

• AIDS prevention interventions
• CBPR
• HIV prevention interventions
• Men who Have Sex with Men
• community engagement and public health
• community-based participatory research

From the book reviews:

“Scott Rhodes has assembled an interesting collection of articles that illustrate the advantages of community-based participatory research (CBPR) aimed at reducing the rate of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. … it includes excellent sections that illustrate the steps needed for and benefits of true community engagement in research. … This book will speak to public health and medical investigators who are ready to commit themselves to understanding the importance of and details required to work in partnership with community members.” (Judy Levison, Clinical Infectious Diseases, January, 2015)

• Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, USA

  Scott D. Rhodes

Scott D. Rhodes, PhD, MPH, CHES, is a public health scientist, whose research focuses on the integration of community development and health promotion and disease prevention interventions in both rural and urban communities. Specifically, his research explores sexual health; HIV and sexually transmitted disease (STD) prevention; and health disparities among vulnerable communities. Dr. Rhodes has experience working with Latino communities; urban African American adolescents; persons living with HIV and AIDS; men of color; self-identified gay and bisexual men; and men who have sex with men (MSM). Dr. Rhodes has extensive experience in community-based participatory research (CBPR); the design, implementation, and evaluation of HIV prevention interventions, community capacity development, and environmental and policy change; the application of behavioral theory; photovoice as a methodology of participatory action research (PAR); lay health advisor approaches; the exploration of sociocultural determinants of health; and internet research, including data collection, intervention delivery, and evaluation.

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