Community-engaged Research Partnerships as Healing Spaces for Health Professionals and Researchers

Drawing from collective experiences in our capacity building project: Health Equity Activation Research Team for Inclusion Health, we argue that while community-engaged partnerships tend to focus on understanding health inequities and developing solutions, they can be healing spaces for health profe...

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Published in:Progress in community health partnerships 2024-06, Vol.18 (2), p.287-293
Main Authors: Alang, Sirry M, Letcher, Abby S, Batts, Hasshan, Moeller, Carol, Biery, Nyann, Mitsdarffer, Mary, Kieber-Emmons, Autumn M, Rivera, Jose, Johnson, Melanie
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Addictions
Anthropology, Cultural
Capacity Building - organization & administration
Capacity development
Collaboration
Community
Community-Based Participatory Research - organization & administration
Design
Ethnography
Focus Groups
Health disparities
Health Equity - organization & administration
Health Personnel - organization & administration
Health Personnel - psychology
Health services
Heart
Humans
Imprisonment
Interviews
Medical personnel
Meetings
Participation
Professionals
Research Personnel - organization & administration
Research Personnel - psychology
Researchers
Stigma
Trust
Well being
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Summary:Drawing from collective experiences in our capacity building project: Health Equity Activation Research Team for Inclusion Health, we argue that while community-engaged partnerships tend to focus on understanding health inequities and developing solutions, they can be healing spaces for health professionals and researchers. Data were obtained from a 15-month participatory ethnography, including focus groups and interviews. Ethnographic notes and transcripts were coded and analyzed using both deductive and inductive coding. Practices of radical welcome, vulnerability, valuing the whole person, acknowledging how partnerships can cause harm, and centering lived experience expertise in knowledge creation processes were identified as key characteristics of healing spaces. Ultimately, health professionals and researchers work within the same social, political and economic contexts of populations with the worst health outcomes. Their own healing is critical for tackling larger systemic changes aimed at improving the well-being of communities harmed by legacies of exclusion.
ISSN:1557-0541
1557-055X
1557-055X
DOI:10.1353/cpr.2024.a930724