The outcomes of CBPR research is to improve health outcomes and to reduce health disparities by developing and testing community supported interventions and the added value of community participation (15). Previous researchers have summarized challenges faced during community-academia partnerships including the level of community participation and community consent, power and privilege concerns, and discrimination and social change issues (15). The level of community participation or the involvement of community members in all the research process is often diminished by previous problematic relationship with the academia partners and lack of shared program goals (15). This issues are often solved by forming research advisory committees and focusing on community capacity instead of disease-oriented research programs (15). Community consent or how the researchers are granted permission to enter the community which dependent on the history of collaboration might poses challenges for the involvement of community in community-academia partnerships (15). The second barrier arises from who are perceived as having greater power (i.e. knowledge and resources) in this partnership (15). Also, issues regarding race and ethnic discrimination might evolve during a community-academia partnership. To
