Building Bridges and Mending Fences: Cultural Conflict and Cultural Brokering between Academic and Immigrant Communities

VanLandingham, Mark; Nguyen, Ty; Tran, Carrie; Pham, NhuNgoc K.; Bui, Bonnie; Anglewicz, Philip

doi:10.1177/19367244231171530

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“…Researchers of all disciplines should seek to enhance their cultural competence before entering the field to avoid acting in a culturally insensitive manner or reinforcing existing power imbalances within the study team or in the field research setting (Aijazi et al, 2021;. Researchers can also work with members of the local community who can serve as lead investigators, collaborators, or liaisons skilled in bridging cultural divides (Aijazi et al, 2021;Browne, 2015;VanLandingham et al, 2023). Local researchers 'know local contexts better than anyone' and therefore may be best positioned to conduct research that prioritises local needs (Radical Interpretations of Disasters, n.d.).…”

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Defining, collecting, and sharing perishable disaster data

Adams

Evans

2023

Disasters

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Researchers across disciplines have long sought to collect ‘perishable data’ in the context of disasters. Yet, this data type is neither consistently defined nor discussed in specific detail in the literature. To address this gap, this paper defines perishable data and provides guidance on ways to improve both how it is collected and shared. Here, perishable data is conceptualised as highly transient data that may degrade in quality, be irrevocably altered, or be permanently lost if not gathered soon after it is generated. Perishable data may include ephemeral information that must be collected to characterise pre‐existing hazardous conditions, near‐miss events, actual disasters, and longer‐term recovery processes. This data may need to be gathered at multiple points in time across varying geographic scales to accurately characterise exposure, susceptibility to harm, or coping capacity. The paper considers ethical and logistical challenges and discusses opportunities to advance equitable perishable data collection and dissemination.

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Section: Ethical Challenges To Collecting and Sharing Perishable Datamentioning

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Defining, collecting, and sharing perishable disaster data

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Evans

2023

Disasters

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“…The team included a Vietnamese cultural broker, who was a university employee and a member of the target community. In public health, cultural brokers serve to build connections and trust between academic researchers and communities, to identify key stakeholders in community, and act as a voice for the community (Rao, 2020;Schaaf, Warthin, Freedman, & Topp, 2020;VanLandingham et al, 2023). Baron (2021) notes that cultural brokers serve as "mediators to reduce conflict and apply cultural competence derived from their academic training and/or ethnic background to articulate the needs and cultural practices of underserved communities".…”

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“…Involving the target population is particularly important -and even more time-consuming -when that population is an ethnic minority group that has been relatively isolated from mainstream sources of public health information, and possibly the subject of discrimination. When working with ethnic minorities, rapidly developing new materials without adequate community feedback can be problematic (VanLandingham et al, 2023). Limiting community feedback to speed up the process increases the risk that the materials are not adequately nuanced to be perceived relevant and trust-worthy.…”

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Getting culturally appropriate health messages out in a hurry: Developing a communications campaign for COVID-19 testing in a Vietnamese-American community.

Meekers,

Pham,

Tran

et al. 2023

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Background. Developing health communication materials can be time-consuming. During infectious disease outbreaks, health communication materials to limit the spread of the disease are needed promptly, which hampers the ability to get input from the target audience. This paper proposes a strategy to rapidly develop culturally appropriate communication materials with adequate community feedback. Context. Our strategy is illustrated using a communication campaign to encourage COVID-19 testing in a Vietnamese-American enclave in New Orleans. The community has a high vulnerability to COVID-19 infection due to their isolation from mainstream public health information and COVID-19 related stigma and discrimination. Programmatic elements. The project included community-based COVID-19 testing services and communication activities to increase awareness of the testing centers and encourage frequent testing. Our proposed strategy involves two main components: 1) use of a research team with existing trust relationship with the target community and that includes researchers from that community, and 2) use of a cultural broker and community-based gatekeepers. Free PCR tests were offered daily at a community-based health center. Another community-based organization promoted testing and issued referrals. We developed brochures and posters to increase awareness of the testing services. The cultural broker and community-based partners helped identify key message concepts that were salient for the target audience, as well as the objectives and content of the materials, which were then reviewed by the entire team. The entire team provided feedback on mock-ups of the materials and subsequent revisions. Finalized materials were placed at both partner organizations and at strategic locations throughout the community and supplemented with newspaper advertisements and community outreach.Discussion. During infectious disease outbreaks there is a need to rapidly develop new health communication materials. Our proposed strategy strikes a balance between the need to disseminate new materials with minimal delay and the need for community input by using a research team with an established trust relationship with the community, cultural brokers, and community-based gatekeepers. Effective planning for public health emergencies must start long before the crisis occurs. Collaborations between researchers and community leaders should be developed and nurtured, and community representatives should be involved throughout the entire project.

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Rapidly developing communications materials during public health emergencies: the Âu Cơ campaign in the USA

Meekers,

Pham,

Tran

et al. 2024

Health Promotion International

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During public health emergencies, health communication materials to contain the outbreak are needed promptly, which prevents the use of standard approaches for getting feedback from the intended audience. We propose a strategy for rapidly obtaining community feedback on new health communication materials during the public health emergencies. We illustrate this with COVID-19 testing campaign in a Vietnamese–American enclave in the USA. The project included community-based COVID-19 testing and communication activities to increase the awareness of the testing centers and encourage frequent testing. Our strategy involves two main components: (i) use of a research team with an existing trust relationship with the community and that includes researchers from that community and (ii) co-design of communication materials using community-based gatekeepers and a cultural broker. We developed brochures and posters to increase the awareness of the COVID-19 testing services. The cultural broker and community-based partners identified salient message concepts and worked with the researchers to define the objectives and content of the materials, which were then reviewed by the entire team. In lieu of standard pretesting, we relied on feedback on mockups of the materials and subsequent revisions from the community-based gatekeepers and cultural broker. Our strategy strikes a balance between the need to urgently disseminate new materials and the need for community input. One key takeaway is that effective planning for public health emergencies must start long before the crisis occurs.

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Building Bridges and Mending Fences: Cultural Conflict and Cultural Brokering between Academic and Immigrant Communities

Cited by 3 publications

References 27 publications

Defining, collecting, and sharing perishable disaster data

Defining, collecting, and sharing perishable disaster data

Getting culturally appropriate health messages out in a hurry: Developing a communications campaign for COVID-19 testing in a Vietnamese-American community.

Rapidly developing communications materials during public health emergencies: the Âu Cơ campaign in the USA

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