# Community Engagement and Dissemination Core

> **NIH NIH P50** · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA · 2020 · $218,177

## Abstract

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT--CEDC 
The mission of the Community Engagement and Dissemination Core (CEDC) of the MADRES Environmental 
Health Disparities Center is to increase public understanding and awareness of the effects of the environment 
on women’s health, especially during pregnancy and the postpartum period, by engaging Center researchers, 
scientists and clinicians with residents, communities, health care providers, policymakers and public health 
officials to create equitable and sustainable partnerships. The CEDC engages with community-based social 
justice and health care organizations working in health disparity communities, scientists and public officials using 
a multi-directional and culturally-appropriate and language justice framework to disseminate information, 
research findings, and policy strategies to understand and reduce maternal environmental health disparities. The 
CEDC has developed a successful model to engage Latinas together with multi-ethnic health disparity 
communities in addressing household- and neighborhood- level environmental health concerns in urban Los 
Angeles, CA. In the current award, we developed novel methods to train mothers, residents and youth in 
participatory environmental health workshops, conducted community air monitoring, collaborated with multiple 
stakeholders implementing a novel effort to assess and reduce toxic air emissions at a neighborhood scale, and 
leveraged traditional and nontraditional communications techniques to disseminate Center science broadly. In 
the MADRES renewal we will continue to advance environmental health literacy among mothers and leverage 
new partnership with community health workers. We will disseminate research to local and national audience 
utilizing innovative communication methods and develop culturally-appropriate tools to share findings and results 
with MADRES cohort participants. The CEDC will further provide strategies to eliminate, reduce or mitigate 
adverse environmental health impacts to vulnerable populations and evaluate the success of our CEDC 
activities.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10058749
- **Project number:** 9P50MD015705-06
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
- **Principal Investigator:** Jill E Johnston
- **Activity code:** P50 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $218,177
- **Award type:** 9
- **Project period:** 2015-09-01 → 2025-03-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10058749

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10058749, Community Engagement and Dissemination Core (9P50MD015705-06). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10058749. Licensed CC0.

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