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Participatory Research at National Laboratories: Examples at UCAR
Speaker: Rajul Pandya
This session will explore an additional approach to guiding research at national laboratories – community-based participatory research (CBPR). In CBPR, which was first applied in the field of rural development and has been used for many years in biomedical fields, scientists and community leaders work together to design a research agenda that simultaneously advances basic understanding and addresses community priorities. Good CBPR integrates research, education and capacity-building.
A brief presentation will describe three examples of CBPR at UCAR. The first is NCAR’s partnerships to explore climate change and its impact on Tribal lands. The second approach a Denver-area listening conference that will identify and articulate climate-change related priorities in the rapidly-growing Denver-area Latino community. Finally, we will describe a Google-funded project that brings together atmospheric scientists, epidemiologists, medical doctors, and economists to use improved precipitation forecasts to better manage Meningitis in Ghana.
After this presentation, the session will set up some hands-on activities designed to help participants identify opportunities for CBPR at their laboratory.
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