{"doi":"10.54656/jces.v16i2.496","title":"Building Community Engagement Capacity in a Transdisciplinary Population Health Research Consortium","abstract":"Community engagement has been named a research priority by the National Institutes of Health, and scholars are calling for community engagement as an approach to address racism and equity in science. Robust community-engaged research can improve research quality, increase inclusion of traditionally marginalized populations, broaden the impact of findings on real-life situations, and is particularly valuable for underexplored research topics. The goal of this paper is to describe lessons learned and best practices that emerged from community engagement in a multi-institution population health research consortium. We describe how a foundation was laid to enable community-engaged research activities in the consortium, using a staged and stepped process to build and embed multi-level community-engaged research approaches.. We staged our development to facilitate (a) awareness of community engagement among consortium members, (b) the building of solidarity and alliances, and (c) the initiation of long-term engagement to allow for meaningful research translation. Our stepped process involved strategic planning; building momentum; institutionalizing engagement into the consortium infrastructure; and developing, implementing, and evaluating a plan. We moved from informal, one-time community interactions to systematic, formalized, capacity-building reciprocal engagement. We share our speed bumps and troubleshooting that inform our recommendations for other large research consortia-including investing the time it takes to build up community engagement capacity, acknowledging and drawing on strengths of the communities of interest, assuring a strong infrastructure of accountability for community engagement, and grounding the work in anti-racist principles.","journal":"Journal of Community Engagement and Scholarship","year":2024,"id":459391,"datarank":0.0,"base_score":0.0,"endowment":0.0,"self_citation_contribution":0.0,"citation_network_contribution":0.0,"self_endowment_contribution":0.0,"citer_contribution":0.0,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":4,"citer_count":0,"citers_with_citation_signal":0,"citers_with_endowment":0,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":0.9561,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":true,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":"2024-01-01","fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":438045,"name":"Tamera Coyne‐Beasley","orcid":"0000-0003-2845-3880","position":1,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":429817,"name":"Shayna D. Cunningham","orcid":"0000-0001-8876-9962","position":2,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1286524,"name":"Ayah El-Farmawi","orcid":null,"position":3,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1286525,"name":"Bernard L Harlow","orcid":null,"position":4,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":451584,"name":"Lisa Kane Low","orcid":"0000-0002-1785-0744","position":5,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":445248,"name":"Heather Klusaritz","orcid":"0000-0001-8769-0494","position":6,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":452668,"name":"Terri H. Lipman","orcid":"0000-0002-5649-8069","position":7,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":376568,"name":"Julia Maki","orcid":"0000-0002-0726-6421","position":8,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":322433,"name":"Jesse Nodora","orcid":"0000-0001-6756-4423","position":9,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":308099,"name":"Melissa A. Simon","orcid":"0000-0001-9021-7315","position":10,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":720257,"name":"Jeni Hebert‐Beirne","orcid":"0000-0002-9473-0017","position":11,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":434061,"name":"Aimee S. James","orcid":"0000-0002-1411-9307","position":0,"is_corresponding":true}],"reference_count":33,"raw_metadata":null,"created_at":"2026-07-19T02:03:55.280882Z","pmid":"39055611","pmcid":null,"fwci":null,"citation_percentile":null,"influential_citations":0,"oa_status":null,"license":null,"views":0,"total_file_size_bytes":0,"version_count":0,"fair_f":null,"fair_a":null,"fair_i":null,"fair_r":null,"fair_zscore":null,"fair_rationale":null,"fair_model":null,"fair_agent_version":null,"fair_fulltext_source":null,"fair_has_llm":null,"fair_computed_at":null,"clinical_trials":[],"software_tools":[],"db_accessions":[],"linked_datasets":[],"topics":[]}