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Title: Evaluating the Translation of Research Evidence into Practice and Policy for Behavioral Health Equity
Language: English
Authors: Steve P. Verney (ORCID 0000-0003-2648-8182), Blake Boursaw (ORCID 0000-0001-9432-8987), Ryan Martin, Eunice Kim (ORCID 0009-0001-6774-7219), Jeremaiah D. Simmons, Nina Wallerstein (ORCID 0000-0002-1969-0799), Lisa Cacari Stone (ORCID 0000-0003-0357-3413), Melissa Gonzales (ORCID 0000-0002-1883-1967)
Source: Health Education & Behavior. 2025 52(1):66-73.
Availability: SAGE Publications. 2455 Teller Road, Thousand Oaks, CA 91320. Tel: 800-818-7243; Tel: 805-499-9774; Fax: 800-583-2665; e-mail: journals@sagepub.com; Web site: https://sagepub.com
Peer Reviewed: Y
Page Count: 8
Publication Date: 2025
Sponsoring Agency: National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) (DHHS/NIH)
Contract Number: 5U54MD00481110
Document Type: Journal Articles
Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education
Postsecondary Education
Descriptors: Mental Health, Interdisciplinary Approach, Evidence Based Practice, Barriers, Evaluation Methods, Leadership, Labor Force Development, Information Dissemination, Scientific Research, Hispanic Americans, American Indians, Alaska Natives, Benchmarking, Community Involvement, Policy Formation, Social Change, Participatory Research, College Faculty, Researchers, Surveys, Racial Differences, Social Differences, Community Centers
Geographic Terms: New Mexico
DOI: 10.1177/10901981251346742
ISSN: 1090-1981
1552-6127
Abstract: The Transdisciplinary Research, Equity and Engagement (TREE) Center for Advancing Behavioral Health partners with community leaders to translate research evidence into practice and policy for behavioral health equity. Equity-oriented research centers such as the TREE Center present evaluation challenges and, correspondingly, offer rich opportunities for enhancing understandings of both effective evaluation strategies and the multi-dimensional impacts of complexity-oriented research centers. As part of an embedded, participatory evaluation process to advance impact, three TREE Center partner surveys were conducted in 2019-2020 to evaluate progress toward achieving Center co-leadership, knowledge integration, workforce development, and co-dissemination aims. All surveys contained Center-designed measures of progress toward aims alongside externally validated scales. Aggregate response rate across the three surveys exceeded 50% (122/228). Concordant with the Center's Co-leadership, pluralities of survey respondents were Hispanic/Latinx (40-59%), and American Indian or Alaska Native (20-22%). Reflecting increases from baseline, a majority of academic partner follow up survey respondents reported "high, sustained progress" toward each Center aim with survey means exceeding national benchmarks on 13 of 14 externally validated measures of community engaged research processes and outcomes, including policy impact, community integration into research, and social transformation measures. Overall, evaluation survey results supported broad progress toward both authentic engagement and the co-production of community benefit and affirm, while complex to implement and sustain, publicly funded research Centers supporting community engagement in team science, grounded in genuine concordance, can play a vital role in advancing health and health policy with equity.
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