# Community Outreach and Health Disparities

> **NIH NIH P30** · VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER · 2020 · $110,673

## Abstract

The goal of the Community Outreach and Health Disparities Core (COHDC) is to encourage and facilitate 
effective diabetes translation research among investigators who seek to decrease risks for diabetes and its 
sequela among vulnerable minority populations, especially African Americans. Through our work, we expect 
to increase collaboration, perform quality intervention research, and increase the rate of positive behavior 
change among patients and at-risk persons. We will work with investigators that have funded research 
projects and support those that are seeking funding for projects in development. 
African Americans carry a disproportionate diabetes burden and are usually hard-to-reach and/or engage in 
research focused on evidence-based methods to reduce this burden. Hence, community-engaged research 
strategies must be used to encourage and facilitate reach and engagement, through implementation of 
infrastructural, organizational, and behavioral models, and evaluation of effectiveness through use of 
appropriate and sensitive measurement tools. Besides the diabetes statistics, our work is driven by the obesity 
epidemic, a risk factor for diabetes, because it is so pervasive in our region (Southeastern United States). 
Planning and conducting translational research requires many different skills, and very often investigators do 
not have all the skills needed. The COHDC brings together an experienced, multi-disciplinary team that can 
support translational research with minority and underserved population.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10016277
- **Project number:** 5P30DK092986-11
- **Recipient organization:** VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER
- **Principal Investigator:** STEPHANIA miller-hughes
- **Activity code:** P30 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $110,673
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2011-09-01 → 2022-07-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10016277

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10016277, Community Outreach and Health Disparities (5P30DK092986-11). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-25 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10016277. Licensed CC0.

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