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Community-engaged research is stronger and more impactful

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Based on her own experience, Gabrielle Wong-Parodi describes how a community-engaged approach has the potential to strengthen research and increase its impact.

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  1. Clinical and Translational Science Awards Consortium Community Engagement Key Function Committee Task Force on the Principles of Community Engagement. Principles of Community Engagement (NIH publication no. 11-7782) (Department of Health and Human Services USA, 2011).

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The OCOB project was developed under assistance agreement no. 84024001 awarded by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to G.W.-P. (Stanford University) and S.-H. Cho (RTI International). This World View has not been formally reviewed by the EPA. The views expressed in this document are solely those of G.W.-P. and do not necessarily reflect those of the agency. The EPA does not endorse any products or commercial services mentioned in this World View. OCOB is also supported by a National Science Foundation CAREER award (SES-2045129), Stanford Center for Population Health Sciences award and United States Parcel Service Endowment Fund at Stanford award to G.W.-P., and by a Stanford Impact Labs award to J. Suckale.

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  1. Department of Earth System Science, the Woods Institute for the Environment, and Environmental Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA

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Wong-Parodi, G. Community-engaged research is stronger and more impactful. Nat Hum Behav 6, 1601–1602 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-022-01494-5

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