A systematic review of community engagement in the US environmental protection agency's extramural research solicitations: Implications for research funders

T. Yuen, A.N. Park, S.D. Seifer and D. Payne-Sturges

American Journal of Public Health, 2015, vol. 105, issue 12, e44-e52

Abstract: Objectives. We systematically reviewed the Environmental Protection Agency, National Center for Environmental Research's (NCER's) requests for applications (RFAs) and identified strategies that NCER and other funders can take to bolster community engagement. Methods. We queried NCER's publically available online archive of funding opportunities from fiscal years 1997 to 2013. Froman initial list of 211 RFAs that met our inclusion criteria, 33 discussed or incorporated elements of community engagement. We examined these RFAs along 6 dimensions and the degree of alignments between them. Results. We found changes over time in the number of RFAs that included community engagement, variations in how community engagement is defined and expected, inconsistencies between application requirements and peer review criteria, and the inclusion of mechanisms supporting community engagement in research. Conclusions. The results inform a systematic approach to developing RFAs that support community engagement in research.

Keywords: consumer; financial management; government; human; methodology; organization and management; participatory research; peer review; procedures; research; standards; United States, Community-Based Participatory Research; Consumer Participation; Humans; Peer Review; Research; Research Design; Research Support as Topic; United States; United States Environmental Protection Agency (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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