1. Community Research Methods Sao Paulo Wednesday February 2, 2011

2. Today Announcements Look Back Case Studies Community Assessments

3. Announcements Switching content of Feb 8 with Feb 24 session: – Feb 8 now = Individual Interviews Individual meetings: Jeremy;Chloe; Hannah Cane survey article will be discussed later in survey design session

4. Look Back Community Assessments: – Get to know as a person before as a researcher – Extensive time Community Profile: – Sectors, history, culture, demographics Case Study: – Assessment of a community within a particular context

5. Your case study is a team project

6. Six Topics 1.Health through the life span: maternal, children 2.Health through the life span: aging 3.Environmental health: pollution (water, air, smoking) 4.Environmental health: environmental issues related to food access 5.Infectious diseases: HIV 6.Infectious diseases: Tropical diseases

7. Your Choice *Stay with same case study through all 3 countries Change topics

8. Information Sources for Your Brazil Case Study Your unstructured individual wanderings Your homestay families: shared experiences; observations;conversations;formal interviews Site visits Guest lectures Faculty lectures Readings from 4 courses; SP booklet;other [Partial] Community Assessments Individual interviews Content analysis of visual media AND info from Washington,D.C. (optional)

9. Timing 2 full days to prepare: Feb 16 & 17 All 6 case studies presented on Feb 18 Each team’s case study presentation: 30 minutes + 15 minutes for Q&A Grading 15 team or 10 team & 5 individual

10. Help with your Case Studies Country coordinator, Glenda Both faculty, Oscar & Dee

11. Community Assessments 1.Assessments with no agenda other than getting to know the community 2.Assessments with Issue-Specific Agenda

12. “Open Slate” Community Assessments Community mapping with no agenda Broad Reflects diversity: Considers community from viewpoints of each cultural group within it Looks for strengths, resources, resilience factors Looks for needs, deficits

13. Issue-Specific Community Assessments Community mapping for a specific topic Narrow Looks for resources to address a health issue Looks for barriers to addressing a health problem

14. Community Assessments Time Community partnership – (assessments of, for and by the community)

15. Walks: Steps in Observing Take with you: Small notebook & pen; Discrete camera: optional; Discrete audiorecorder: optional Step 1: Open slate mind (30 minutes alone) Step 2: Sensory experiencing – Sounds – Sights – Smells – Feelings Step 3: Deliberate attention – Participant observation – Counts

16. For Your Friday Neighborhood Visit: Step 1. Open Slate Experiencing (30 minutes) Step 2. Single sense experiencing Step 3. Deliberate observations Step 4. Block walk one commercial or mixed block: Identify sectors of every building. Step 5. Document with block-by-block snapshots a continuous sequence of at least 5 blocks Step 6. Block-by-block recordings of sounds for the same 5 blocks

17. Block Walking & Documentation = first steps in community mapping. A future session: example of full community mapping