The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) sponsored the Conference on Community-Based Participatory Research, which as held November 27-28, 2001, in Rockville, MD. In sponsoring the conference, AHRQ collaborated with the W.H. Kellogg Foundation; the Office of Minority Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; and the Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research, National Institutes of Health.