# Community Outreach, Diversity, and Inclusion Core

> **NIH NIH P20** · UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM · 2020 · $224,854

## Abstract

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT
 The Community Outreach, Diversity and Inclusion (CODI) Core will coordinate with the other Cores to
foster research on Alzheimer’s disease and related disorders (ADRD) and ensure the proper representation of
Black/African American (B/AA) participants. In the heart of the Deep South, Alabama residents have
experienced a history of unique social and economic inequalities and high rates of co-occurring medical
conditions. These factors may contribute to the elevated incidence of dementia in this region. Major goals of
the CODI Core are to increase ADRD awareness, properly inform potential participants of the procedures and
tests necessary to effectively conduct ADRD research, and enhance the ADRD research infrastructure in the
Deep South. Our community partnership approach will be guided by our established relationships with the
Deep South RCMAR, professional women’s and men’s service organizations including Alpha Kappa Alpha
sorority and Nasiha Roho Adinasi fraternity, and area aging and dementia agencies. We will use multiple
modalities to extend our reach throughout the Deep South including a needs assessment in the area
surrounding our new second site at UAB Medical West Hospital in Bessemer, AL (predominately B/AA),
training a cohort of Community Health Alzheimer’s Advisors (CHAAs), and focus groups to get residents views
on ADRD-related research. We will oversample B/AA residents for participation in ADRC activities and
research by utilizing i2b2 informatics to identify patients utilizing services offered by the UAB Health System
(UABHS) and continuing our fruitful collaboration with the national Reasons for Geographic and Racial
Differences in Stroke (REGARDS) study. Birmingham area REGARDS participants will be given the
opportunity enroll in the ADRC. This collaboration may serve as a model for expanding to other geographic
regions with ADRCs and large concentrations of participants in existing population-based research. We
propose to rigorously evaluate and publish the results of our outreach, engagement, recruitment, and retention
methods, and we will collate and disseminate best practices to ADRCs and other ADRD networks.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10035017
- **Project number:** 1P20AG068024-01
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM
- **Principal Investigator:** Olivio J Clay
- **Activity code:** P20 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $224,854
- **Award type:** 1
- **Project period:** 2020-09-01 → 2023-07-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10035017

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10035017, Community Outreach, Diversity, and Inclusion Core (1P20AG068024-01). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-22 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10035017. Licensed CC0.

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