As a group with expertise in community-based research whose members include both Aboriginal representatives and researchers, we encourage the use of community-based participatory research. We developed a document that was accepted as a policy statement by the North American Primary Care Research Group to promote this method of research.^2,3 Community-based participatory research promotes the development of researcher–community partnerships. As a team the researchers and community representatives design the research (i.e., identify the nature of the problem, develop the most appropriate intervention and identify the best ways to assess the impact of the intervention), implement the intervention and evaluation, analyze and interpret the data and disseminate the results. In addition, it is our experience that these partnerships are greatly strengthened by jointly negotiated written ethical guidelines that outline the obligations of all team members and that promote sharing of decision-making and power. These guidelines help to maximize community knowledge and capacity building and to sustain programs after the funding for the project ends, which are the ultimate goals of all community-based health research.