Table 3.

Principles of partnership

To reduce health disparities, increase health equity, and promote community and population health, we strive to build and maintain trust among each of us—community members, organization and agency representatives, clinicians, and academic researchers—through

• Mutual respect and genuineness

• Establishing and using formal and informal networks and structures

• Transparent processes and clear and open communication

• Roles, norms, and processes evolving from the input and agreement

• Agreeing on the values, goals, and objectives of research and practice

• Building on each’s strengths and assets

• Continual feedback

• Balancing power and sharing resources

• Sharing credit for the accomplishments

• Facing challenges together

• Incorporating existing environmental structures to address partnership focuses

• Taking responsibility for the partnership and its actions

• Disseminating findings and conclusions to community members, research and clinical audiences, and policy makers