Innovations in HIV Prevention Research and Practice through Community Engagement

This book is a current resource on innovative HIV prevention interventions. Community engagement in public health and medicine, including community-based participatory research (CBPR), has been increasingly promoted as an approach to yield more effective interventions to reduce health disparities. HIV prevention research and practice have been at the forefront of this movement and lead the way in sound approaches to community engagement in the design, implementation, evaluation, translation, and dissemination of prevention interventions. In fact, there are now a critical mass of HIV prevention intervention studies that have applied innovative approaches to community engagement; however, there currently is no go-to state of the art resource to which researchers, practitioners, and students can refer. This edited book brings together leaders in the field who are working at various points along the community-engagement continuum, with diverse populations, and different types of HIV prevention interventions (e.g., individual, community, structural). This book provides researchers, practitioners, and students with a much needed and unique resource to apply state of the art approaches to community engagement to a variety of public health and medicine priorities, beyond HIV prevention. The book may be used by researchers, practitioners, and students to bring the science and practice of community engagement to its next level.