Anthropological Insights on Effective Community-Based Coalition Practice

Chad T Morris is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Roanoke College. An applied medical anthropologist, he focuses on means of improving community participation and dissemination of ideas in public health promotion. His current research agenda includes investigating community-driven means of increasing food security and reducing rates of heart disease, diabetes, and obesity in the Republic of Palau. John (Juan) S Luque is an Assistant Professor in the Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health at Georgia Southern University. He also received an MA in cultural anthropology from Arizona State University in 1997; an MPH in epidemiology in 2004 and a graduate certificate in Social Marketing in 2010 from the University of South Florida. His primary research interests include cancer prevention and control, social marketing, and lay health advisor intervention programs.

• Anthropological Insights on Effective Community-Based Coalition Practice: An Introduction 1Chad T. Morris and John S. Luque Practicing Anthropology on a Community-Based Public Health Coalition: Lessons from HEAL 10Margaret EverettLessons Learned from a Community Coalition with Diverse Stakeholders: The Partnership for Citrus Worker Health 27Paul ManaghanAssessing and Achieving Diversity of Participation in the Grant-Inspired Community-Based Public Health Coalition 43Chad T. MorrisAnti-Domestic Violence Coalition Practice: Theorizing Collaboration and Participation 66Jennifer R. WiesFood for Thought: Coalition Process and a Community-Based Research and Service-Learning Project 79Carolyn BehrmanBuilding a Latino-Engaged Action-Research Collaborative: A Challenging University-Community Encounter 96Ricardo Contreras and David GriffithA Social Network Analysis Approach to Understand Changes in a Cancer Disparities Community Partnership Network 112John S. Luque, Dinorah Martinez Tyson, Shalanda A. Bynum, Shalewa Noeil-Thomas. Kristen J. Wells, Susan T. Vadaparampil, Clement K. Gwede, and Cathy D. MeadeAn Academic in an Activist Coalition: Recognizing and Bridging Role Conflicts 136Josiah HeymanBuilding Living Alliances: Community Engagement and Community-Based Partnership to Address the Health of Community Elders 154Kim E. Radda and Jean J. SchensulConcluding Remarks: Anthropology’s Role in Building and Sustaining Community Coalitions 174Frances Dunn ButterfossBiosketches 183