TUMS - Cener for Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR)

www.sdhprc.tums.ac.ir

sdhprc@sina.tums.ac.ir

The Center for Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) was established in fall 2001 in order to provide the necessary requirements to perform health research "with the community" not "on the community" and to make the research topics more compatible with the real needs of the society. Center for CBPR was established by the Deputy of Research and Technology in the Ministry of Health and Medical Education.

The outlook of the Center for CBPR is to devise original methods for community health promotion with community participation towards governmental and nongovernmental organizations, and academicians. The Center for CBPR is firstly committed to community empowerment, so that the residents are enabled and are given the capacity to detect and analyze their health problems and needs and to find feasible solutions for them. Secondly,it has intended to provide the appropriate enabling environment for capacity building, which requires commitment of stakeholders and extensive inter-sectoral collaboration. Both initiatives are intended to be done with vast participation of the people in the design, implementation and evaluation of the process. The results of both initiatives are intended to be generalized to the whole society.

Research Areas:

1. Developing Community Participation and Intersectoral/ Organizational Collaboration Models

2. Developing Participatory Needs Assessment & Priority Setting Models

3. Developing Indigenous Health Promotion Guidelines

4. Developing Participatory Community based Projects and Evaluation

5. Drug abuse and risky behaviours