# Outreach Core

> **NIH NIH U54** · DANA-FARBER CANCER INST · 2020 · $532,179

## Abstract

Summary: Outreach is a core activity of the U54, and the UMass Boston – DF/HCC Partnership Outreach 
Core proposes an innovative approach to these efforts. The Core will focus on building relationships with 
outside partners, promoting evidence-based health promotion activities, training students in community-based 
and community-engaged research, supporting U54 research projects, and participating in NCI National 
Outreach Network (NON) activities. In the previous project period, our U54 Partnership built a strong track 
record in promoting evidence-based and evidence-informed interventions in Black and Latino churches and 
parishes, training underrepresented minority (URM) students in research, disseminating the NCI NON 
biobanking/ biospecimens education program, and advising U54 researchers on recruitment and retention, and 
outreach research project planning. The goal is to expand on this strong foundation to broaden the range of 
community organizations that can benefit from the resources and expertise of the UMass Boston-DF/HCC 
Partnership. The Outreach Core will take a participatory approach to engage local and regional community- 
based organizations engaged in cancer prevention, particularly among underserved communities. The Core 
will build capacity in these organizations to use existing evidence, a hallmark of dissemination and 
implementation science. This approach responds to: a) the recommendation of our Program Steering 
Committee to include a dissemination and implementation focus for the renewal application, b) the emphasis in 
the FOA on supporting the delivery of health promotion activities and engaging community organizations, c) 
developments in the study of cancer disparities that increasingly emphasize evidence-based approaches to 
accelerate the translation of knowledge from research to practice settings, and d) calls from the NIH to 
integrate research, capacity-building, and outreach to address disparities. The activities of the Outreach Core 
will focus on two partner communities: the Greater Boston area and Lawrence, MA, leveraging the team's 
strong relationships in these areas. Key partners representing community organizations will be engaged in 
Boston and Lawrence through a Community Advisory Board (Specific Aim 1); and a needs assessment will be 
conducted to identify interest in and capacity for cancer control, emphasizing addressing cancer disparities 
(Specific Aim 2). The Outreach Core will build capacity among: a) community organizations to engage in 
evidence-based cancer control programming (Specific Aim 3A) and b) URM students to conduct outreach and 
community-based research for cancer prevention (Specific Aim 3B). Finally, the Core will support the 
dissemination of research findings from the U54 Partnership to local organizations and communities (Specific 
Aim 4). By building connections between academia and community partners and also by building capacity 
among community organizations and students,...

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10003164
- **Project number:** 5U54CA156732-10
- **Recipient organization:** DANA-FARBER CANCER INST
- **Principal Investigator:** Shoba Ramanadhan
- **Activity code:** U54 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $532,179
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2010-09-27 → 2021-08-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10003164

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10003164, Outreach Core (5U54CA156732-10). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-26 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10003164. Licensed CC0.

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