# Community Engagement

> **NIH NIH P30** · VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER · 2020 · $73,849

## Abstract

High quality translation research poses many unique challenges for investigative teams including: 1) working
with community organizations; 2) conducting studies in community settings; 3) obtaining input from the
community on study design and implementation issues; 4) requiring expertise from many different disciplines;
5) collecting and analyzing data on the environmental context in which people live; 6) interacting with other
institutions such as universities, health department, and health care systems; 7) implementing interventions in
multiple settings and capturing process evaluation and fidelity data; and 8) identifying opportunities to train and
educate key study personnel and research partners. Over the past 15 years, Vanderbilt scientists studying
diabetes and diabetes related problems (e.g., obesity) have increased their capacity to plan and conduct
community-engaged and translation research. The purpose of the Diabetes Community Engaged Research
Core (D-CERC) is to continue to support and enhance the capacity of the diabetes research community. To
accomplish this, we have three specific aims: 1) Create an environment that fosters community-engaged
diabetes translation research through building networks of investigators, actively engaging community and
government organizations, and support the research through expertise-based consultations; 2) Achieve
integration with existing research services provided within Vanderbilt and at partner institutions; and 3)
Enhance community-engaged research services by continuing to provide health geography services to
investigators, and adding web-based process evaluation as a new service. In this application, we
describe 10 grants or contracts that were supported by the D-CERC during the current funding cycle. These
include community-engaged research projects on diabetes and obesity. The health geography core provided
services to seven of these projects. Five of the projects included a web-based process evaluation page which
is a proposed service for the upcoming funding cycle. In addition, we briefly describe nine sources of support
for community-engaged and translation research that the D-CERC will help investigators navigate and utilize.
The extension of the health geography core will continue to develop and maintain map and data layers,
geocode the addresses of study participants, create maps for investigators, and create data layers for multi-
level linear models. The process evaluation service will take the Process Analysis Web System (PAWS) and
create a web site template, refine the software and development tools, create a well-documented user's
manual, and make this available to the research community. One of the main tasks of the D-CERC is to
coordinate our work with the Community Outreach and Health Disparities Core (COHDC) at Meharry Medical
College. Drs. Schlundt and Hargreaves will meet regularly to insure that investigators are making use of the
services of both cores, to track service uti...

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10016275
- **Project number:** 5P30DK092986-11
- **Recipient organization:** VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER
- **Principal Investigator:** DAVID G SCHLUNDT
- **Activity code:** P30 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $73,849
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2011-09-01 → 2022-07-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10016275

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10016275, Community Engagement (5P30DK092986-11). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-27 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10016275. Licensed CC0.

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