2010) and improving health care (Tapp and Dulin, 2010, Williams et al., 2009). There is an extensive literature about the power of the CBPR design to develop more effective interventions for diverse communities, and CBPR practices are far more common among researchers working with underserved or at-risk populations, for example, underrepresented minority groups (Xia et al., 2016) or unique populations that are facing particular health challenges (Orellano-Colon et al., 2017, Noboa-Ortega et al., 2017). CBPR has been discussed extensively with respect to public health approaches and health policy (Ahmed and Palermo, 2010, Morone and Kilbreth, 2003, Wolfson et al., 2017). However, in my experience, these practices have not been broadly discussed in the context of how we conduct or conceptualize basic research. I would argue that the central tenets of CBPR, which involve engaging the community of study to conduct more meaningful and impactful research, has great potential for transforming basic research, as well, and that there are several potential benefits to this approach (delineated further below).
