Table III.

Themes within context in CBPR model

	History/description of population or place	Cultural grounding
Bronx Health REACH	‘To me, the disparity is that here we are in 2012 and still there’s a colored door and a white door…you know that you can’t go into that white door. And if you do, they’re going to throw some water on you or hose you down or beat you up or hit you over the head or put you in jail’. (Female/Community) ‘The progress made in the African-American community over the last 40 or 50 years were inextricably bound to the black church…the black church could indeed become the vehicle for continued change including health care’. (Male/Community)	‘Well, they made it clear from the Jump Street that if the community was going to experience wholeness that the black church and Latino church in this community must see health issues and concerns as a spiritual matter. Now, that’s what got my attention, when they made it spiritual’. (Male/Community)
National Center for Deaf Health	‘If you don’t think that there’s something called Deaf culture, you need to spend more time with deaf people. There are all different cultures. Knowing the deaf, there’s a Deaf culture’. (hearing Male/University)	‘The curriculum is huge, but it’s delivered in ASL … in an ASL group setting’. (hearing Female/University) ‘Cultural misperception is a huge issue; so I was very motivated to join for that reason’. (deaf Female/Community)