摘要：The Delta Nutrition Intervention Research Initiative (NIRI) team has conducted
several research studies in the Lower Mississippi Delta (LMD) region employing the
community-based participatory research (CBPR) model. Our collaborative work in the
LMD focuses on interventions conducted in each of three communities across three
states: Arkansas (Marvell NIRI), Louisiana (Franklin NIRI), and Mississippi
(Hollandale NIRI). Our success in these communities has been the result of emerging
key community leaders, members, and organizations assuming a lead role throughout
the research process including conceptualizing and development of the research
interventions, recruiting participants, data collection, hiring and training of staff to
conduct the interventions, analyzing data, presenting the research to various
