These are a couple of strategies to directly engage communities in the development and implementation of public health interventions that might be applied where they live. Community-based participatory research is an approach that involves community members in all aspects of a public health research project including: assessing needs, formulating questions, devising intervention strategies, evaluating outcomes, and implementing programs and policies. Community advisory boards have been proposed as a valuable means of obtaining community input on clinical trials, especially the informed consent process, to ensure that participants are fully aware of risks, benefits, and implications. The advisory board process could also be used to engage community members in other types of public health interventions.