Community-engaged Research Partnerships as Healing Spaces for Health Professionals and Researchers.

Publication/Presentation Date

1-1-2024

Abstract

Drawing from collective experiences in our capacity building project: Health Equity Activation Research Team for Inclusion Health, we argue that while community-engaged partnerships tend to focus on understanding health inequities and developing solutions, they can be healing spaces for health professionals and researchers. Data were obtained from a 15-month participatory ethnography, including focus groups and interviews. Ethnographic notes and transcripts were coded and analyzed using both deductive and inductive coding. Practices of radical welcome, vulnerability, valuing the whole person, acknowledging how partnerships can cause harm, and centering lived experience expertise in knowledge creation processes were identified as key characteristics of healing spaces. Ultimately, health professionals and researchers work within the same social, political and economic contexts of populations with the worst health outcomes. Their own healing is critical for tackling larger systemic changes aimed at improving the well-being of communities harmed by legacies of exclusion.

Volume

18

Issue

2

First Page

287

Last Page

293

ISSN

1557-055X

Disciplines

Medicine and Health Sciences

PubMedID

38946573

Department(s)

Department of Family Medicine

Document Type

Article

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